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a closer look at the work of beijng street artists BJPZ CREW ///
BJPZ Crew (北京喷子) is a Beijing-based graffiti team that formed in February of 2007. It now consists of six members – MORE, 0528, SOOS, QER, ZAK and ALS.
BJPZ’s work is all about paying homage to Chinese culture and merging traditional Chinese elements:
“We want to do graffiti with distinguished Chinese characteristics. We’ll continue [...]
a sampling of work from beijing-based illustrator BOWL ///
We recently caught up with Beijing-based creative “Bowl” for a chat. She spends her 9 – 5 working at a design firm, but fills her free time with her passion: illustration. If you look closely, her work can be roughly divided into three categories: 1) earlier pencil sketches (from 2005 and 2006) which are [...]
Most NeochaEDGE readers should already be quite familiar with Garfield – we’ve featured her work on the site several times, and over the the last 18 months she has become one of our favorite Chinese illustrators. Her work is so imaginative and inspiring, not to mention original, and full of humor and [...]
Our good friend Popil recently collaborated with Coach to paint 20 some tote bags for an all-day branded charity auction. Included in her fan-base now is celebrity Hong Kong pop singer Gigi, who is (as a result of the auction) toting around one of Popil’s Coach creations.
Of the event, Popil said, “I hope [...]
arresting images capturing chinese creative youth from hangzhou-based photographer ricenz ///
It’s hard not to love Hangzhou-based photographer Ricenz’s work – for us, it was love at first sight.
His clean and pithy photographs do a wonderful job of capturing Chinese creative young culture, framing each shot in just the right moment. Gazing upon his pieces, you can almost feel the silky skin of a naked girl’s [...]
tracks | wpox’s “budala” ///
events | popil & madi’s “india zoo” art & photography exhibition ///
If you like India, animals, or nature, and you are in Guangzhou between April 30 to May 30th, then be sure check out Popil and Madi Ju’s (both Guangzhou natives) INDIA ZOO Indian Art & Photography exhibition held at Goelia Concept 225. The exhibition is a [...]
Guangzhou would be a lot less fun without our friends designer / street art duo FIREXRD.
This time we bring you some older wheat-paste work of theirs that takes issue with, what they call, “visual pollution” – in this case, a shoddy television advertisement for a Chinese brand of diet pills.
The pieces are [...]
visuals | yanzi ///
tracks | the fragile ///
