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Big brands get local to boost China sales.
With the Beijing Olympics just four months away, set against the background of a rapidly expanding consumer market, major sportswear brands are locked in a design war to make their products appealing to Chinese consumers. Nike and Adidas are two of the biggest players innovating with new styles, [...]
Nokia asks consumers to contribute ideas for new internet handsets.
A predictable mega-trend this year is the booming of the mobile internet, which will see more of us online for longer while on the move. Nokia responded to this trend in China by launching its Design My Internet Life competition last December, aiming to attract [...]
Concept jewelry highlights trend toward digital accessories.
The Shenzhen-based Chocolate Agency is out to make slap bracelets cool again with a digital re-take on a popular design. The agency’s innovative e-paper slap bracelets, which are still at the concept stage, are made from a thin, flexible, high contrast screen that can display images. The length [...]
Modern moms are willing to spend money for convenience and high quality child care.
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Alpha Moms are young, active mothers who are well educated and had an active career before choosing to have a family. They tend to be more informed, cosmopolitan and connected than their parent’s generation – and are usually more busy too. [...]
Innovative feng shui software brings fortune telling to China’s mobile generation.
One of the things that gives China its mystic charm is the country’s long history of fortune telling. In the past geomancers used elaborate magnetic compasses to determine the favorable flow of vital energy and how best to ward off destructive evil forces [...]
Paperless novels become popular with tech-savvy readers and writers.
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In Asia the popularity of user-generated content has spilled over in a big way into the publishing world. In countries such as Japan and China, high mobile phone penetration rates, language characteristics, and the development of a pervasive cellphone culture has given rise to [...]
The rebirth of individualism ushers in a new era of fashion design in China’s capital of cool.
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Anything concerning fashion and style used to be taboo in China, where uniforms in the Mao era prevailed for the last couple of years, but not now. Although new comers to the world’s runway, the fashion designers in [...]
In-home private cooking classes and food services for a new breed of Alpha Moms
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Alpha Moms are young, active mother who are well educated and had an active career before choosing to have a family. They tend to be more informed, cosmopolitan and connected than their parent’s generation – and are usually more busy [...]
When John Peterson invented the plastic grocery bag in 1979, little did he realize the dire effects his brainchild would have on the world. An estimated 1.2 trillion of the nasty little eco-timebombs are now produced annually, each taking a mere 1,000 years to break down into their toxic components. An estimated one million seabirds [...]
Ten years ago, setting up an avant garde art studio in a derelict Beijing army electronics complex was considered eccentric and provocative. Today, Factory 798 has developed into a maze of contemporary art galleries, studios and cafes, attracting artists and visitors, students and collectors from across China and overseas.
We had reported on this interesting art [...]
