East Asian Design

(via gurafiku)

Tumblelogs dedicated to design in China, Korea and Japan.

asianeyefordesign

designforjapan - designs for t-shirts, posters etc. to aid Japan’s recovery from earthquake/tsunami.

gurafiku

modernasianstyle - design and fashion

sinography

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Calligraphy

(image from wikimedia)

Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters (Mediavilla 1996). Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may create all of these; characters are historically disciplined yet fluid and spontaneous, at the moment of writing…

––wikipedia

Sadly, there are not that many tumblrs (that I could find, anyway) devoted to calligraphy. Please prove me wrong and show me all the blogs I’ve missed.

calligraphical

classicorome

ecritgraphie

fuckyeahcalligraphy

lacaligrafa

A directory of design and illustration blogs on tumblr.