My new song/visual “589”, first foretaste of my coming album Mooncake Songs, is on Youtube! A stop signal of an old Shanghai bus inspired me during my first days in China back in 2002, still in the Jiang Zemin era long ago:
8/2021
New video on a new project: The Thousand Character Classic of the Streets (街道之千字文) and the new Hong Kong Street Face (港街黑)
A short video on how I work on my new Chinese typeface is on Youtube:
5/2021
Ambivalentopia: New song, new visual
My new song/visual “Ambivalentopia” is on Youtube:
4/2020
The Type (editors): Collection of Research on Chinese Typography (中文文字设计研究选集)
Friends of typography and culture: Here is a new triptych on the Chinese type cosmos, edited and published by The Type (formerly Type Is Beautiful) in Shanghai. Get your copy here. I had the honor of contributing to this project.
1/2020
Multilingual typography workshops and presentation, Hof University
On January 14–15, 2020, I held two one-day classes and a talk at Münchberg Media Design Campus, Hof University of Applied Sciences, on multilingual typography. The students experimented with multilingual signage systems on the backdrop of the coming semester exhibition, including Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and German. I am always excited to contribute a spark of multilingual, trans-cultural design to existing projects.
1/2019
New collaboration with Type is Beautiful (China)
Glad to annouce I will once more be an ATypI speaker this year in Antwerp. My topic is Plantijn’s Biblia Polyglotta and Belgium from the perspective of multilingual typography. The talk will be held on Friday, September 14, 11:20, at Arenberg Theater. I can’t wait to be around and meet all those typeheads again. For those unable to come, I am sure videos of all presentations will be provided after the event.
6/2018
Hong Kong Street Face 香港馬路體(港街黑)out on 3type
My first large-scale font family, 946 Latin, a techno-style constructed sans-serif with 75 weights (a variation font soon to follow), is now available on Fontspring.
Under the motto “From Digit to Digital (从「指尖」到「数位」)”, the first ever Type School organized by Shanghai-based foundry 3type (三言) will take place in Shanghai from July 8 to 22, 2017. I am both delighted and proud of being part of the teaching team alongside Susanne Zippel, Georg Seifert, Zheng Chuyang (鄭初陽), Mira Ying (應寧) from Type is Beautiful, and many others.
10/2016
Typodarium 2017 – out now
Hermann Schmidt Verlag, Mainz, recently published the 2017 version of legendary Typodarium, a tear-off calendar with a daily dose of fresh type specimen. You propably wouldn’t want to tear off these beautiful pages, though. This year, Typodarium was opened for Non-Latin entries, which is good news to me. It was an honor to be asked to submit three pages – April 7 (Frust, a new sans serif development), August 28 (Hong Kong Street Face 港街黑), and October 14 (AR Laowai Sung 文鼎老外宋). Better order your copy soon!