By Design and architecture reporterPublished July 20, 2022Prior to 1997, nearly all road signs in Hong Kong were . The job entailed cutting Chinese characters by hand, in the absence of an available font for the approximately 13,000 glyphs in the Chinese language.That all changed when the highway authority began adopting , in the mid-1990s, thus closing the era on Hong Kong’s vernacular street typography. Now a group called is racing to preserve the handiwork of inmates, calling it important artifact of Hong Kong’s history.Over the years, the manual sign-making process at the Pak Sha Wan...…By Design and architecture reporterPublished July 20, 2022Prior to 1997, nearly all road signs in Hong Kong were . The job entailed cutting Chinese characters by hand, in the absence of an available font for the approximately 13,000 glyphs in the Chinese language.That all changed when the highway authority began adopting , in the mid-1990s, thus closing the era on Hong Kong’s vernacular street typography. Now a group called is racing to preserve the handiwork of inmates, calling it important artifact of Hong Kong’s history.Over the years, the manual sign-making process at the Pak Sha Wan...WW…

By Design and architecture reporterPublished June 5, 2020There’s nothing inherently funny about the novel coronavirus. The indicate that more than 383,000 people have died from Covid-19, and the number of confirmed cases worldwide has eclipsed the 6 million mark.But Taiwan, which is lauded for its the spread of coronavirus, has adopted humor as a tool in fighting the pandemic. Speaking at the TED conference this week, Taiwan’s digital minister Audrey Tang explained how a tactic called “humor over rumor” has effectively quashed misinformation about Covid-19.Every time a hoax surfaces on...…By Design and architecture reporterPublished June 5, 2020There’s nothing inherently funny about the novel coronavirus. The indicate that more than 383,000 people have died from Covid-19, and the number of confirmed cases worldwide has eclipsed the 6 million mark.But Taiwan, which is lauded for its the spread of coronavirus, has adopted humor as a tool in fighting the pandemic. Speaking at the TED conference this week, Taiwan’s digital minister Audrey Tang explained how a tactic called “humor over rumor” has effectively quashed misinformation about Covid-19.Every time a hoax surfaces on...WW…