Beijing's Original T-shirt Brand

Every now and then I get mail from people who have seen me on TV or people who I have met when giving creative lectures at universities around China. This has to be one of my favourites. Its really nice to inspire people to follow their dreams and ideas and thats pretty much what i [...]

I’ve always been scared about opening up shops in other cities, I”ve usually just pursued the wholesale path to distribute product but finally I found a shop in Tian Zi Fang (Tai Keng Lu) in a prime location and I’ve signed the deal and now I have to do it. I’m not sure of many [...]

Its always nice to see celebrities getting Plastered, in this case its Ruan Jing Tian and Ying Da. In the case of Ying Da I was invited onto his program so I gave him a long sleeve t-shirt that he requested, in the case of Ruan Jing Tian he came to our flagship store and [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

After the huge amount of great feedback from the last video we did – “Journey of a Plastered T-shirt”, we came up with another concept… Superimposed. We’ve always been a big fan of those superimposed restaurant signs you find around Beijing, where things like cars and hot pots are pasted upon green, rolling hills. This [...]

Don’t try this at home folks … setting off a van load of fireworks in 30 minutes with a bunch of mates with no pyrotechnical experience and no concept of firework choreography is most likely to end in an accident of some sort. Last year I lost my eye lashes and burnt my face letting [...]