你好,我是香港字體設計師思緒俠。這是我第一個NFT的作品,名為【大香港主義】。
我於2019年創辦思緒俠造字,是香港第一間以藝術字體為主要收入來源的媒體公司。我致力研發藝術字體和開發一套6000字的中文繁體字體,目前以字體產品和商業合作維生。
今次登陸NFT平台作試驗的原因是傳統眾籌字體/販賣字...
你好,我是香港字體設計師思緒俠。這是我第一個NFT的作品,名為【大香港主義】。
我於2019年創辦思緒俠造字,是香港第一間以藝術字體為主要收入來源的媒體公司。我致力研發藝術字體和開發一套6000字的中文繁體字體,目前以字體產品和商業合作維生。
今次登陸NFT平台作試驗的原因是傳統眾籌字體/販賣字體的收入不足,更容易被複製為盗版,收入不足以營運新型字體公司的運作。而且香港被譽為「文化沙漠」,經營實體店和市集長遠而言無法讓香港設計被看得見, 如果今次能夠成功岀售NFT作品,其媒體報道的價值必定高於作品本身,令更多人關注【香港設計】。
我的原創NFT作品結合字體和平面設計,作品意念源自電影中常常中有美國隊長拯救世界,我們稱之為「大美國主義」,後來中國電影文化逐步掘起,中國人拯救世界屢見不鮮,「大中國主義」也慢慢萌芽。有見香港人自2019年後身份認同開始抬頭,我自己作為年輕人也身歷其境感受到自己是被選中的小孩,時代下要我們抬起頭認可,【大香港主義】便是我們的義務。
【大香港主義】用了我正在創作的思緒重生體,是19年後的字體創作。該字體曾接受明報/Umag/港台訪問,目前正在製作階段。
購買連結:https://bit.ly/moodmen1stNFT (LINK in BIO)
Hello there, this is Moodmen, a Hong Kong typography designer. This is my first NFT artwork, “Hong Kong-centred Doctrine”.
I founded Moodmen Font Company, the first design agency with revenue generates majorly from typography design in Hong Kong. I strive to explore the potentials of typographic arts and develop an entire set of traditional Chinese characters typography with 6000 words. We mainly reply on business-to-business collaborations, and launching typographic products to sustain the business.
The reason for us to land on the NFT platform for the first time is because traditional crowd-funding and typography selling do not sufficiently support our business. The piracy of font is extremely rampant given its easily transferable nature. Being dubbed as “cultural desert”, Hong Kong does not possess a flourishing market to run a design store in the long run, which allows designers to be seen and heard. I fervently believe that the media and awareness capture is much more valuable then the actual selling value of this art work. It is a solid proof that typographic arts are valuable.
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#nft #nftart #nfthk #hknft #firstnft #fontnft
flourishing中文 在 Facebook 的最佳貼文
最近,我在「TIME時代」雜志的專欄文章裡,向全球的讀者介紹了大陸「世界工廠」的+AI自動化升級。隨著勞動力成本的上漲,工業自動化、智慧化勢必是大陸製造業的一劑特效藥。自動化能讓運營成本下降,但仍能讓中國大陸保持生產品質、流程、供應鏈維度的優勢。AI賦能產業升級的願景或許還需多年才能實現,但當下的大陸已經讓未來可期。
以下是專欄文章全文,經TIME授權翻譯轉載:
「中國世界工廠 + AI 的未來」
多年來,中國大陸一直被喻為「世界工廠」,即便在全球其他經濟體紛紛遭遇新冠疫情重擊的2020年,大陸製造產業仍然維持穩健的增長范式,全年產值高達3.854萬億美元,占到全球市場近三分之一。
但如果你腦中的大陸工廠是傳統的「血汗工廠」,是時候修正你的刻板印象了。大陸經濟已經迅速地從疫情衝擊下復蘇,疫情同時催化了各種各樣人工智慧(AI)的應用場景加速實現。自2014年以來,中國大陸的AI專利申請量已經超越美國,至今維持全球領先。在學術領域,中國大陸的AI研究論文發表數量、AI期刊的引用量,也雙雙在近年超過了美國。在產業方面,AI應用在大陸的落地速度超越世界其他國家和地區,具有商業價值的AI應用如今開始百花齊放,整合了軟體、硬體和機器人技術的新一代自動化揭開序曲,AI賦能傳統行業的能量,正在蓄勢待發地重塑各行各業。
人類社會至今經歷了三次不同的工業革命:蒸汽革命、電力革命和資訊革命。我相信,AI將會是推動全球第四次工業革命的核心引擎,在世界各地點燃數位化和自動化的變革,而這波前所未有的硬科技浪潮,將由中國來引領實踐。
由於勞動人口減少和新增人口放緩,中國大陸的傳統產業正面臨著勞動力成本上升的巨大壓力,AI正是解決這個難題的技術解答。人工智慧不僅能夠降低運營成本,提高生產效率,擴大整體產能,還有望能帶來收入的增長。
例如,創新工場投資的廣州極飛科技是一家致力於未來農業的AI科技公司,極飛將無人機、機器人和感測器部署在稻田、麥田和棉花田裡,用技術賦能農業中的播種、農藥噴灑、栽種管理、甚至天氣監測環節。用於作物噴灑的極飛科技R150農業無人車已經被推廣到了英國,應用在蘋果、草莓、黑莓等多種經濟作物的種植流程中。
一些大陸的創新公司正積極把機器人拓展到意想不到的場景。總部位於北京的鎂伽是創新工場投資的生命科學智慧自動化公司,他們和實驗室、製藥公司、高校合作,憑藉AI+機器人技術的積累,用自動化解決方案執行實驗室中勞動密集、重複性高、但需要高度精確的任務和流程,同時機器人作業也將盡最大可能保護實驗室人員降低實驗過程中的感染風險。
除了創業公司,我們看到幾家成熟的龍頭企業也開始積極擁抱AI。創新工場參與了有28年歷史的中力電動叉車,這家頭部的鋰電叉車製造商已經推出了能夠在工廠、倉庫自主運行的無人叉車,並且無需對運行環境進行改造,能快速實現從手動到電動到自動駕駛的搬運賦能創新。此外,擁有50多年歷史的領先客車製造商-宇通集團,與自動駕駛獨角獸企業-文遠知行戰略合作,已在大陸三個城市的馬路上運行全無人駕駛小巴。
接著會發生什麼?我大膽預見,在更長遠的未來,機器人和AI將接管大多數產品的製造、設計、交付甚至營銷——很可能將生產成本降低到和原物料成本相差無幾。未來的機器人有能力自我複製和自我修復,甚至做到部分自我反覆運算設計。房屋和公寓將交由AI主導設計,使用預製建築模塊,交由機器人像搭積木似地築樓蓋房。無人公交、無人摩托等隨傳隨到的自動化未來交通系統,能將我們安全無虞地送達想去的地方。
這些願景成為現實或許還需要多年,但此時的大陸正在積極鋪墊引領新一代自動化革命的基石。可期的是,中國工廠的實力將不僅僅體現在產能上,而將逐步彰顯在智慧上。
本文經「TIME時代」授權進行中文編譯,原文如下:
China Is Still the World's Factory — And It's Designing the Future With AI
BY KAI-FU LEE
For many years now, China has been the world’s factory. Even in 2020, as other economies struggled with the effects of the pandemic, China’s manufacturing output was $3.854 trillion, up from the previous year, accounting for nearly a third of the global market.
But if you are still thinking of China’s factories as sweatshops, it’s probably time to change your perception. The Chinese economic recovery from its short-lived pandemic blip has been boosted by its world-beating adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). After overtaking the U.S. in 2014, China now has a significant lead over the rest of the world in AI patent applications. In academia, China recently surpassed the U.S. in the number of both AI research publications and journal citations. Commercial applications are flourishing: a new wave of automation and AI infusion is crashing across a swath of sectors, combining software, hardware and robotics.
As a society, we have experienced three distinct industrial revolutions: steam power, electricity and information technology. I believe AI is the engine fueling the fourth industrial revolution globally, digitizing and automating everywhere. China is at the forefront in manifesting this unprecedented change.
Chinese traditional industries are confronting rising labor costs thanks to a declining working population and slowing population growth. The answer is AI, which reduces operational costs, enhances efficiency and productivity, and generates revenue growth.
For example, Guangzhou-based agricultural-technology company XAG, a Sinovation Ventures portfolio company, is sending drones, robots and sensors to rice, wheat and cotton fields, automating seeding, pesticide spraying, crop development and weather monitoring. XAG’s R150 autonomous vehicle, which sprays crops, has recently been deployed in the U.K. to be used on apples, strawberries and blackberries.
Some companies are rolling out robots in new and unexpected sectors. MegaRobo, a Beijing-based life-science automation company also backed by Sinovation Ventures, designs AI and robots to safely perform repetitive and precise laboratory work in universities, pharmaceutical companies and more, reducing to zero the infection risk to lab workers.
It’s not just startups; established market leaders are also leaning into AI. EP Equipment, a manufacturer of lithium-powered warehouse forklifts founded in Hangzhou 28 years ago, has with Sinovation Ventures’ backing launched autonomous models that are able to maneuver themselves in factories and on warehouse floors. Additionally Yutong Group, a leading bus manufacturer with over 50 years’ history, already has a driverless Mini Robobus on the streets of three cities in partnership with autonomous vehicle unicorn WeRide.
Where is all this headed? I can foresee a time when robots and AI will take over the manufacturing, design, delivery and even marketing of most goods—potentially reducing costs to a small increment over the cost of materials. Robots will become self-replicating, self-repairing and even partially self-designing. Houses and apartment buildings will be designed by AI and use prefabricated modules that robots put together like toy blocks. And just-in-time autonomous public transportation, from robo-buses to robo-scooters, will take us anywhere we want to go.
It will be years before these visions of the future enter the mainstream. But China is laying the groundwork right now, setting itself up to be a leader not only in how much it manufactures, but also in how intelligently it does it.
Source:https://time.com/6084158/china-ai-factory-future/
flourishing中文 在 國立故宮博物院 National Palace Museum Facebook 的最佳貼文
#防疫不防藝
#無論好壞蝙蝠都是無辜的
#蝠與福
雖然現在聞「蝠」色變,但在古代,蝙蝠可是有個好名聲!下圖的流雲紅蝙蝠紋花瓶,大家還可以想到哪句吉祥寓意的話呢?
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畫家在描繪物象時,除了呈現其本身的形體風貌外,有時又進一步賦予了更深的文化意涵,尤其常取中文字「同音」和「諧音」(近似音)的特色,傳達人們嚮往美好、理想生活之祝願。如以蝙蝠與鹿,代表「福祿雙全」,魚代表「年年有魚」等,此延伸之寓意,體現了人類社會的民情風俗及精神文化層面。
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【清 汪承霈 繪御製詩意百福繁生圖】
形式:軸,339x 89cm
汪承霈,善長作詩詞、書法與畫花卉。畫中所選取的元素,均有其吉祥寓意,如柏樹、稻穗插瓶中諧音為「歲歲平安」,流雲紅蝙蝠紋花瓶,幡旗置於花座旁,取雙關諧音,寓意「洪福齊天」。笙音同「升」,祝頌加官晉爵。柏音同百、蝙蝠、幡旗、笙組成「百福繁生」,則象徵幸福好運,是件富含吉祥寓意之繪畫作品。
【Illustrating the Idea of Imperial Poetry on Flourishing with a Hundred Blessings】
Wang Cheng-pei (active circa 18th – 19th century),
Qing dynasty
Wang Cheng-pei excelled at poetry and was gifted at calligraphy and painting flowers. Cypress and ears of rice in Chinese form a homophone for "years of peace." The vase here, decorated with auspicious clouds and red bats, is also accompanied by a pennant, its meaning in Chinese a metaphor for "fortune overflowing to the heavens." The reed pipe and halberd are likewise a homophone for "promotion," serving as a blessing for advancement in rank. The bronze "dou" vessel and flat "hu" convey the meaning of "pecks of gold coming in daily." Moreover, the Chinese word for "cypress" is related to the word for "hundred," while the bats, pennant, and reed pipe combine to express the idea of "flourishing with a hundred blessings," symbolizing great fortune and luck.
#經典之美新媒體藝術展覽「吉祥寓意」區中也有百福瓶互動作品喔!
The Epitome of Aesthetics – New Media Art Exhibition
陳列室:210【北部院區】正館
Gallery: 210 (Northern Branch) Exhibition Area I
https://theme.npm.edu.tw/exh108/210 (全幅作品可參考網站)
flourishing中文 在 筆尖溫度 Facebook 的最佳貼文
【 硬筆花體字 】Be Patient 耐心點✍️ ( ▶️留言索取教材 )
雖然 英文字母 比起 中文 筆畫已經簡單許多,
但是還是需要多一點" 耐心 "練習,
上課學的是 筆具技巧 與 練字方法 ,
字想要寫的漂亮,還是要多多練習才可以喔!
筆具:日本PILOT百樂楓木原子筆0.7mm
特別做了這張卡片的" 描繪底稿教材 📝" ,
有興趣的朋友一樣可以 ( ▶️索取教材 )喔😃!
📂英文書法課:https://goo.gl/X1D5U8
💬開課通知請加Line:https://line.me/R/ti/p/%40rxu3583v
#英文書法 #西洋書法 #calligraphy #draw #art #ink #pen #墨水 #flourishing #handlettering #lettering #handwriting #筆尖溫度 #writing