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Its that time of year when we hopefully get to have a festival on the Hu Tong. After a few meetings it looks like its going to happen this September, and even though I know the date right now I don’t dare confirm it as these things always change at the last moment. But keep [...]

This year on Nan Luo Gu Xiang we’ve seen even more people up and down the hu tong, but not a huge difference in sales. Having spoken to a lot of business owners and fellow members of the chamber of commerce everyone agrees more people looking and not so many spending money. The problem is [...]

Now you can get Plastered in San Li Tun. Brand New China or BNC has just opened its doors in the Village North and is stocking an array of brilliant Chinese brands, we are proud to be one of them.

Here is Phil Cao, Phil grew up in Beijing and has been interning with us for the last few weeks as a designer. Today he came to work today wearing one of the very first Plastered designs from 2006 when we opened our doors on Nan Luo Gu Xiang. I took a fun picture of [...]

Saturday August 27th see another Plastered Zippo night of great music and super cool designed T-shirts and lighters. To show off our 3rd of 5 designs that Zippo commissioned us to do we will have a great line up of bands at Yu Gong Yi Shan. The Face, Chasing Stars, Free the Birds and The [...]

Last weekend Jiang Su tv flew me down to Nan Jing along with a group of very interesting business people to film a TV show. The weekend was really good fun, everyone in the panel for the show were really nice people. I also got to meet one of my heros—Tao Xiangli, he designed and [...]

Game shows are strange, especially when you find yourself on one. I was on Kai Xin Ci Dian last week (a very popular Chinese game show on CCTV1 ), had to answer 5 tricky questions in Chinese about different subjects, and if i got them right i would win my choice of a dream present. [...]

Another hugely successful Plastered/Zippo night at Yu Gong Yi Shan in Beijing. This time a brilliant line up of local bands: White \ Ourself Beside Me \ Snapline and Guai Li. Here are some pictures from the night and the stunning artwork we designed for the event.

The Handsome Furs left me stunned last time I saw them play in Beijing, I went home from the gig, couldn’t sleep and downloaded a tone of their music. I was also fortunate enough to meet them when they came to the store on Nan Luo Gu Xiang, they are truly a beautiful and special [...]