releasing all my drafts this new year per @andypressman tradition
Personal environmentalism may be useless but it's clearly still good to treat everything with respect
Browsing the East Asian library is a frustrating experience because so many Korean and Japanese books just have Chinese on the spines
only Amazon is dumb enough to ask if you'd like three other editions of the 19th century novel you just bought
I forget so often that a large number of Asians are Christian
had a Chinese children’s book that said “others have umbrellas, I have big head”, illo of kid w head so big it shielded others from rain
please don't put oldstyle figures in your neogrotesk. It'll force some sense into kids like high-school me who have only read Bringhurst
Have had multiple papers handed back with sole comment “commas go inside quotation marks” from grad student instructor. Academia is wild
There's a large set of beliefs that I don't try to persuade anyone of, but will distrust anyone who goes out of their way to argue against
why does twitter think it's ok to put retweets out of order
Chinese app pop-up: “Your rating is the greatest reward for our hard work”, with choices “give a rating” and “you need to work harder”
Radiohead is successful mostly for repackaging accidental noise as intentional music
They call it the moon landing but does the moon even count as land
You’re not a real graphic designer unless you’ve been to Japan but never visited any other part of Asia
The only two compliments I get are:
- good handwriting
- good at Mandarin for an immigrant child
- good handwriting
- good at Mandarin for an immigrant child
I’m reading an article from 1981 about the California condor, which became extinct in the wild in 1987. An eerie experience
Love katakana ruby text because it creates such cognitive dissonance for me. This looks like Chinese but it's pronounced like English
reminder that you can almost always use “practice” where you want to use “praxis”
The claim that not using foreign script in graphic design is somehow pretending the non-English-speaking world doesn't exist is so wild
Why do texts so often switch to sans serifs when referring to the letterform itself? Like T in “T-shaped”
My main doubt about astrology is not that it's unscientific but that it's off by one month
In China YouTube is often referred to as 油管, “oil tube”, because “you” is pinyin for 油
the population of China is larger than that of North America and Europe combined
Extremely amused that Trajan Pro 3 has the character ǚ, which is only used in pinyin
That using paper destroys forests is one of the great lies of the twenty-first century
Having nomadic ancestry must give you an entirely different view of the world
T. H. Tsien (錢存訓), one of the most important figures in the study of Chinese writing and printing. Incredible life mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/wor…
completely forgot that Yakult is meant to aid digestion
Chinese book typesetting should be tightly linespaced, minimal margins. Recent westernization is against inherent traits of the script
Is it standard practice in graphic design interviews to show something bad and have the interviewee critique it? Feel like it should be
California Sunday somehow feels right. Sufficiently full of light, but doesn't hold an aura of stupidity, like Kinfolk
So dumb that most critique of Chinese medicine views it as unchangeable tradition. "Some herbs are toxic!" So don't use them
How does JCDecaux own every advertising display
No quicker way to dislike most things than to start having opinions about typography
鏤冰, “to engrave ice”, is a literary term for futile effort
Insane that we've reached a point where good food is defined by lack of toxins that we otherwise willfully add
I'm a strong proponent of taking photos in a way that minimizes the experience of taking the photo itself
A very particular joy when mainlanders elect to invariably use traditional characters
My only “professional goal” currently is to typeset a book on ancient Chinese art history in a DTL font
Disheartening to see so many books of feminist theory set in fonts by Eric Gill
I still tap the bottom right corner expecting to see my own profile
So hard for me to believe that Greek sculptures were ever in color
Can anyone confirm whether they've replaced the portrait of Obama you see upon returning to the LAX intl terminal with a portrait of Trump
Albatrosses in Chinese are "old men who trust the sky"
The most talkative person I know might be the google maps gps woman
I was taught as a child that a tiger's forehead has 王, the Chinese word for king, inscribed on it, so that's how I always drew them
I wish all apps looked like Chinese apps. I never want features taken away
The articles that dictionary sites write about words is one of the saddest byproducts of clickbait copywriting
love those Chinese words that mean the same thing forwards and backwards like 介紹／紹介
that Rich Brian can come in straight from Indonesia & be idolized shows that Asian American identity is based on looks not shared experience
Book cover templates I dislike: NYRB Classics, Penguin Modern Classics, all of the Melville House templates
That’s it! Sorry for the flood! Happy new year! 恭賀新禧 狗年旺旺
