Beijing's Original T-shirt Brand

After working on our Tattoo collection with Needles and Pinns tattoo studio I couldn’t help but go back and work with them on more artwork cause….they’re brilliant. This piece we’ve taken an old potty (which we use to collect names cards in the shops) and added some retro looking kids and some tattoo elements, this [...]

We at Plastered are always on the look out for talent and here’s a beauty of a design from Tangshan designer Monkey Ben. Monkey King meets Indian chief. You can expect more creative designs from Chinese based designers as we expand our design network. If you’d like to be involved please send an email to: [...]

Its a long name! and its back again and of course Plastered is there representing Nan Luo Gu Xiang at the international exhibition Centre from Nov 18th to the 21st. So if you’ve got nothing better to do come along and see all the fan fare.

On November 16th I went to an unforgettable gig, Carsick Cars supporting The Raveonettes, I think i was the only one moshing to Carsick Cars and even fell flat on my ass doing so but I reckon I had the most fun of anyone there! The Raveonettes were outstanding, one of the best live acts [...]

The Plastered stage was a huge success at this year’s Nan Luo festival. The bands were all great and tones of people turned out to see them in a beautiful setting in the middle of the Hu Tongs just off Nan Luo Gu Xiang. The live graffiti by Quality Street was also a big hit, [...]

I had a really pleasant surprise today when Beijing Renmin Guang Buo Dian Tai (Beijing’s People’s Radio) presented me with a lovely award. I got second prize for the best interview on their station. Its not often I win prizes, in fact I’ve only won 2, conker champion on Barfield school in 1981 and British [...]

In the quest to continue to create something new I had an idea to work with local tattoo artists I randomly met one day through my dear friend Li Peng of Reflector Band fame. He introduced me to Wang Ke and her husband, they have their own tattoo studio on Bei Luo Gu Xiang. I [...]

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’m feeling British today! Which is strange because after spending half of my life here in Beijing I sometimes forget where I’m from. The reason I’m feeling more British than usual is because of the chap in this photo, the new British Ambassador to China, Sebastian Wood CMG. A couple of weeks ago I was [...]