If you can dream it, you can make it

Have you ever thought of designing your own mobile phone case using a 3D printer? What about building a remote control cleaning robot or adapting an IKEA sofa for another use? “Makers” have.

Fed up parents discover home schooling

Education in a Chinese public school is a path with few options. Students and their families have little freedom to determine what they will learn.

A walk in the cloud

Steve Jobs jumped on Silicon Valley’s cloud computing bandwagon with the release of iCloud this June in San Fransisco. But this time, Apple was not the first.

Michelin invasion

Each month, many Michelin star-rated chefs come to the capital for one-off dinner presentations at luxury hotels. A few have stayed to open their own restaurants, where locals can enjoy fine French dinners without the need for a flight.

Micro movies bring hope to new directors

Micro movies are shot within a short period of time and last only a few minutes or even shorter. Most are completed on an extremely small budget and offer a cheap way for grassroots directors to realize their dreams.

Dolls not just for girls

Last March, Comilla Liu founded Dollsky, China’s first ball-jointed doll fanzine Dollsky, together with Tian Tian, a graduate student of Peking University.

Bad buys with a good heart – Darth Vader’s legion launches China garrison

After two years effort, the 501st Legion, better known as Vader’s Fist, has a China garrison. The large virtual military is composed of international Star Wars fans with a passion for wearing screen-accurate replicas of storm trooper armor, Imperial officers’ uniforms, clone armor and other character costumes.

Small art immortalizes bygone era in 3D

It may not be possible to pick up a whole shop and look around inside it, but with miniature art one can come amazingly close. These 1:12 artistic models of street scenes and house interiors do more than make the observer feel like a giant: they preserve history.

Talored underwear for health and fashion

Luxury haute couture has been clogging up the Chinese catwalks for so long that many women believe that the best way to look elegant is to spend gads of money on ready-to-wears dresses.

The art of display

Since the classic iconography of Audrey Hepburn dwelling in front of a display window of luxury jewelry brand Tiffany in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the glory and importance of window display design has been a vital part of fashion.