Beijing's Original T-shirt Brand

When I moved to Nan Luo Gu Xiang in 2003 with my family to pursue our dream of living in a shared courtyard and create a big family I never expected Nan Luo Gu Xiang to boom the way it has. After I opened Plastered in May 2006 I watched the street flourish, lots of [...]

About one year ago my eldest daughter Prudence (wang Tian Tian) gave me the idea to create some stain glass images for the shop. I had 4 artists work on 4 different Chinese leaders and the graphic results were stunning. Now finally I have all 4 as glass windows. They arrived all the way from [...]

I first came to know Gu Lou when I enjoyed my first game of snooker in Beijing in 1993, an old Beijing mate took me up this old building to the 3rd floor and we played snooker and drunk beer all day, I used to call that building the “snooker building”. Years later the 3rd [...]

This week I got to give a talk on creative entrepreneurship to the university of southern California. A group of 40+ students who were all super excited about being in Beijing and meeting business and creative types. My talk went really well and they really enjoyed listening to one foreigners perspective on how to do [...]

We are proud to announce that Plastered products will be on sale at the South By Southwest music festival in the USA this March. South by Southwest is one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year the Chinese rock scene will have its own stage! Plastered sponsored bands such as Carsick [...]

As a child I had to go to church every morning at school, it was a time to reflect and space out and think of things that I wanted to do with my life other than sit in a boring church. It was in church that I hatched many of my plans to go travelling, [...]