Posts tagged design

【Video】Lee Kin Ming | Repairing, evolving and circulating Hong Kong fonts

Lee Kin Ming is the founder of ‘Li Hon’s street calligraphy conservation project’. He has worked in his father’s signage shop since young and has recently started to digitise Mr Lee Hon’s calligraphy and has started a crowdfund. He wrote the book Looking at Hong Kong’s Signage to record Hong Kong’s signage history.

Video, Arts, Culture, HistoryWe Are HKers23 November 2020lee kin ming, fonts, typography, art, create, li hon, calligraphy, calligrapher, conservation, street, sign, signboard, design, designer, history, tradition, traditional, characters, chinese, language, mehporpor, zucchhi, crazy man, lazyass, just.production, sam, firefly, onehungrycoconut, jmComment

Benny Yuen | Founder of EARTH.er — Telling the story of this land with my heart

Benny is a designer living in Tai O. He has created an environmentally conscious fashion brand with a “Tai O/Hong Kong is our home” theme while being cognizant of environmental and social issues around the world.

Career, Politics, Arts, Environment, FashionWe Are HKers15 November 2020benny yuen, earth.er, founder, designer, art, design, artist, artists, arts, environment, fashion, brand, branding, tai o, home, social, issues, identity, self, unity, communityComment

Typing… | Expressing strong willpower through gentle calligraphy brush strokes

Typing, a post 90s modern calligraphy artist, is using his unique brushwork to keep a record of Hongkongers' strong will and determination to fight against totalitarianism.

Arts, Hobbies, PoliticsWe Are HKers10 September 2020typing, typing..., calligraphy, design, artist, art, arts, brush, strokes, writing, pineapplepie, modern, dks, protest, protester, protestsComment

Kenji Wong | Let Us Remain Steadfast in Liberating Hong Kong

Kenji Wong, a branding and design specialist, founder of Growthring & Co and has been openly supporting the protest since the beginning. He also participates in local pro-democracy content creation and even spreads those works widely in Japan. See his thoughts on blindly supporting brands based on their political stance and the importance of assessing their quality.

Career, PoliticsWe Are HKers28 March 2020Kenji Wong, Jack Forest, liberate, hong kong, branding, design, designer, protest, pro-democracy, creation, Japan, qualityComment

Candy Choi | Founder of an art organisation - “As well as donating money, I want to tell Hongkongers, by taking action, that we stand with them in solidarity.”

This is not the Hong Kong I know. I had been depressed for a long time. Every night, I need to meditate for an hour before being able to go to sleep. We all need to work together to fight for the freedom of speech: a universal value which we all embrace.

Politics, Overseas, ArtsWe Are HKers28 November 2019candy choi, lui, art, organisation, founder, amsterdam, yuen long, fashion, design, incident, overseasComment