Ms. Yeung has already made her mark on the West: Her spiky heels are in the permanent costume collection of London's Victoria and Albert Museum as representations of contemporary Chinese design.
The book illustrates at length how European design trends were mirrored in Chinese graphic design in the 1920s and 30s.
On Designer Daily I discovered the picture you see right of frame from a book on Chinese graphic design.
One key trend is that Chinese companies will design as well as manufacture products that are sold into the Chinese market and for the export market.
Around the year 1200, the Chinese refined the design, creating suan-pan, or the modern, wire-based abacus.
Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.
Apple has arguably helped to modernise Chinese attitudes towards enterprise and design.
With all this new contextualizing material, I could do an exhibition on the design and outfitting of a Chinese tomb or on ancient Chinese music.
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Manley said because the brand is committed to China, it's important to design and tailor vehicles specifically to Chinese tastes.
Another interesting wrinkle to this story is of whether Chinese automakers are learning any better how to design their own cars.
Hotyork reckons cars made with sexy Italian design, technology and craftsmanship will wow Chinese drivers.
But gradually Chinese visitors began staking out a grand tour of their own design.
Perhaps most obvious was the addition of Chinese motifs to the mix of decorative elements in architects' design repertoires of zigzags, curves and chevrons.
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White said that his company and the Chinese authorities have already signed three other agreements relating to Houston InterWeb Design's products, with announcements relating to those agreements upcoming within two weeks.
By design, most of those employees speak more English than you speak Chinese.
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Born in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, Du graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
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Many of these young Chinese started returning home in the 1920s and 1930s, imbued with Western ideas about modern design.
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There is no way to design a product for the American mass market and then simply adapt it for the Chinese or Indian mass market.
Some of the big Chinese makers have realised that there is no point reinventing the wheel when there is so much foreign technology and design talent for sale.
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