Chinese typography solution for bussiness

Huge gap between Chinese and English typotraphy

Three years ago, I had an interest on Graphic Design and decided give me a chance to learn.  Although I did not become a visual artist and the dream fade away in a sense, It's still an rewarding experience which helps me to rethink visual signals around me. One major course of graphic design is Typography.

I participated the adult program in Art Institute of Chicago.The whole class takes about two months. We started learned basics of typography, baseline, cap height, ascender and so on. We did lettering, poster design, and new letters design. My instructor told us a good designer will do a whole set of typos for a week.

26 letters, a week.
Think about over 20,000 characters in Chinese. How long does it take?

Typography in English

The forms of the writings changed how we relate to what it actually point to. No wonder business will pay  a whole set or, ask the designer to costume a pair for them. I have collect some of my favorite sites to get inspiration on English typography.

http://blog.8faces.com/
http://ilovetypography.com/
http://typographica.org/
http://www.myfonts.com


How to use Chinese typography on web

Here is the way to change your font of website: articles from kendraschaefer.
You may need more than web font, but also some Chinese characters for your logo, packages, and more.

major sites:
https://www.youziku.com/
http://en.justfont.com/

For all use

If you want to buy a set(get a licence), it will cost you 5000 per year for commercial use.

FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL:
http://www.makefont.com/authorization.html

Why it's so expensive ? It takes about 8 person 2 years to finish a whole set.

the reasons to travel, your brand journey

I compare a brand as a person, who needs to explore to new world.

There are two types of people in the world, one is business man, another one is artist. Business man trend to stick the reasons, logics, realities, specifics and things describable and achievable. An artist might also fall into this "business man mode".

When one got stuck in business mode, there is a wanting to leave that situation.

out little walk in farm

I went to WWOOF in a small farm in Dannevirke this March. This is amazing and it's always happening during my travel - get to know people. On my last three days leaving New Zealand, I stayed in YHA Auckland and met an interesting man.

I saw an old man in dinning room at first two nights.He is skinny in a white shirt, with short white hair and wearing metal glasses. He looked like a normal traveler. On the third day while I finished my cooking and looking for a spot, I found Gaelle sit besides him. The girl comes from French Polynesia and sleep downside of my bed. I wanted to stay with someone I know to eat dinner and do I asked if I could join the two.

Do you know what's the most boring and must-to ask question during your travel?
The answer is : Where are you come from.
One's nations, countries, experiences and all in past bringing him to this present moment, this location, is a wonder. There must be a speakable reason and if the traveler would love to share, the reason becomes a good story.

I asked him this question. However, his answer stops me to further questioning.

He said, I leave in Auckland, not a traveler.
What?He is a local and he eat and cook in the kitchen of YHA? I have lots of guessing, but I didn't ask.
He kept talking himself. He just had dinner with his son and grandchildren the other night. He would sleep at his home but before that, he would chat with travelers almost every night in YHA. He had big curiosity on why people come to New Zealand and he kept asking that for people he met.He simply wants to know it.

Is knowing the reasons behind traveling important? Are these reasons make sense to an outsider? I want to ask him why he is doing this but I did not. I am curious to know his reason but I don't think it worth to dig that out. What brings me to New Zealand already became the past and what matters is how this experiences will shape the future. This is how I define my travel.That's the artistic part of my life, unexplainable.

He is another way around.Maybe that's his artist mode and he is not doing norms things, but for inspiring and adventurers. This is his traveling.

So, when you want bring your brand to a new world, it's not necessarily in business mode as well. Also, the behind reasons are mighty strange for outsiders.

Think this is a journey for your brand.

some tricks while creating ricemorning blogs

DAY1 on ricemorning, date:2017-08-06 

I don't know what's going with my Google account, it's aways redirect all pages to Romanian edition. Every page I open, every search I do, and now, this one blog I create, are redirect to the ro domain.

I am so uncomfortable and I delated my blog last time(although only one post ). I find the way, which can helps you : stop the redirect URLs by google .

Here is the code you put in after <head> in templates HTML,the solution is from here:

<script type="text/javascript">

  // Written by Amit Agarwal
  
  /* Get the full URL of the current blogger page */
  var blog = document.location.href.toLowerCase();

  /* Do not redirect if the domain is .com already */
  if (!blog.match(/\.blogspot\.com/)) {

    /* Replace the country TLD with .com and ncr switch */
    blog = blog.replace(/\.blogspot\..*?\//, ".blogspot.com/ncr/");

    /* Redirect to the new .com URL in the current tab */
    window.location.replace(blog);
  }

  // Source: http://labnol.org/?p=21031
  
</script>​