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Amazing illustrations from Asia are getting together.
Maybe the best asian illustrators portal I've ever seen. Highly recommended!
Lots of good shit.
A tremedously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere.
If you like the mix on Lines and Colors, and Drawn!, I think you'll appreciate the nice stwe of styles , genre and approaches in contemporary Asian art that the blogs' creators, Josef Lee and Sam Lay. are constantly cooking up.
Kinda like Drawn! but focusing on one continent where alot of exciting things are happening.
A great site for keeping up with new artists in Asia. I have been blown away by the quality and diversity of style of the artists they feature.
Lovely stuff
This is seriously the place to visit if you have any remotest interest in art and illustration.
an Asian drawing portal that seriously rocks
Dominique Fung
Writing by Mark Joseph Deutsch on 04 Sep 2008 5:24 AM
Dominique Fung
Dominique Fung, who was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario and has roots to Hong Kong, still has a year left of school at Sheridan College but already has some pretty amazing work. I especially like Requiem (top piece)- a painting that will be part of the Fresh Faces exhibit in LA.

She spent this summer interning for illustrator and artist James Jean (well that certainly isn't bad, is it?) and plans to pursue art full-time after school, either in LA or New York.

Watch out for more of Dominique as she is scheduled to show in galleries from San Diego to Philadelphia in the coming new year. She keeps a blog at dominiquefung.blogspot.com
Category: Fine Arts > Hong Kong
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Liquid City
Writing by Bel Ragay on 02 Sep 2008 3:16 AM
Liquid City

Wiritting from the website.

Liquid City is a   Comics  Anthology created by Sonny Liew featuring Robots, Monkey Kings and Giant Whales, bringing together artists and writers from South-east Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, as well as collaborators from beyond the region.

Liquid City presents an edgy vision of lives in cities past, present and future.

Also featured are works by Charlene Chua, Lefty, Jon Foster, Sonny Liew, Gerry Alanguilan, FSCKoh Hong Teng, Drewscape, Kuanth,Thanh Phong, Troy Chin, Shari Chankhamma and many more.

Check out the website to find more previews of the book. 

Category: News > Asia
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Fresh Faces
Featuring Yuta, Nimit, Dominique Fung and Martha Chan
Writing by Mark Joseph Deutsch on 31 Aug 2008 2:56 AM
Fresh Faces

Amazing young artists Yuta Onoda and Nimit Malavia who were previously featured on startdrawing, will be joining Dominique Fung and Martha Chan for project: gallery's fresh faces exhibition!

Check out their blogs for sneak previews of their work: Yuta | Nimit | Dominique | Martha 

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(from the project gallery website) Los Angeles, CA - project:gallery is excited to bring the Canadian quartet of Nimit Malavia, Yuta Onoda, Dominique Fung and Martha Chan to Los Angeles for their first large scale exhibition. Each has sold out work in recent group shows, but now showcase their largest bodies of work to date. All four emerging artists work are being eagerly anticipated by collectors - before each artist launches with larger shows next year in Seattle, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego and NY.

Recognized for bringing forward some of the most cutting edge talent, project's first "fresh faces" show in 2007 gave you Edwin Ushiro, Nate Frizzell, Rebecca Urias and Derek Albeck.

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Artist reception is on Saturday, September 6th 2008 7-10pm. Visit the project:gallery website for more details.

Category: News > News
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Graphika Manila 2008
Writing by Bel Ragay on 19 Aug 2008 3:31 AM
Graphika Manila 2008

Poster by: Christian San Jose 

Graphika Manila International Multimedia Design Conference is a premiere graphic and multimedia design event in the Philippines which started in 2006. Over 1,300 design professionals, students and the media gather annually for one of the biggest forums showcasing cutting-edge multimedia and graphic design. With Web, graphic and multimedia design as a rising element in today's competitive creative and business environments, the event is warmly acknowledged and hailed as one of the most promising multimedia art events in the country.

On its third year running, Graphika Manila will once again provide another chance for creative minds to meet and celebrate the industry's successes.

This year, Graphika Manila's lineup of speakers aims to inspire attendees on their presentations on print and graphic design, motion graphics and animation, visual effects production, design ideas and inspiration, freelancing techniques and a lot more.

See you all on September 20th!

Past event speakers include top design firms: MK12, WeWorkForThem, Hue Visualab, Asylum, TeamManila, Electrolychee and Inksurge. As well as renowned design personalities: Joshua Davis, Micheal Young, Avid Liongoren, Nico Puertollano, Drew Europeo, Steve Tirona, Halil Yildrim and Paul Guadalupe.

Category: News > Philippines
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Customized Japanese Kokeshi dolls
Writing by Josef Lee on 16 Aug 2008 5:13 AM
Customized Japanese Kokeshi dolls

In celebration of Bunka-no-hi (a Japanese national holiday promoting culture, the arts, and academic endeavor) Subtext and guest curator, Christina Conway, have carefully selected over 30 artists to customize traditional Japanese Kokeshi dolls. Featured artists include a mix of Western and Asian artists like Audrey Kawasaki, Kelly Vivanco, Julie West, Jeremiah Ketner, Alberto Cerriteño, Daniel Hyun Lim, Ana Bagayan, Pamela Jaeger, Alex Noriega, CJ Metgzer, Catalina Estrada and many more!

See previews of all 30 customized Kokeshi dolls and the list of artists here.

[Article originally posted by albertoeca in Computerlove]

Category: Products / Toys > Japan
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