designSTEIN Beijing

Print, Bleed & Crop

One of the common struggles working in Beijing has been explaining simple printing marks to those who don’t understand and sometimes more exasperating, to printers who don’t understand. Language barrier plays a role so in this post we’ll give you the English and Chinese translation for print…

WeChat GIF Animations Tutorial

Liked our Chinese New Year graphic?

6 Design Resources to Kickstart Your Year

We’re back with new rescources to get your 2016 off to the right start!

2016: Innovation & Imagination

Through insider information we received advance notice of product releases that will get you excited for 2016. Incidentally, both these products are from Apple.

This year, Apple released Apple Watch that brought wearable tech to the next level…

Fastest Cafes in Beijing

Start making plans for next weekend! We’re sharing with you our list of the best cafés in Beijing to work and play. Not only do all these cafés serve excellent coffee and food, they all have their own unique atmosphere and style.

3 Incredible Technologies to Make You Immortal

01: Upload your brain

Pros: non-invasive, enables cognitive improvements

Cons: may not preserve your personality or sense of self

How Your Brain Sees Design

We’ve looked for our phone when it was in our hand all along and car keys when they were right in front of us. But let’s face it, most of the time we think we pay attention to our surroundings. But do we really?

Distinctive Wine Labels

This week, we asked our vino aficionado at Waldorf Astoria Beijing to share the most distinctive wine labels she’s come across. We’re finally going to know whether it’s ever justified to judge a wine by its label.

20 Essential Mac Hacks

This week we’re giving away our favourite and most useful Mac hacks. Check our list of top 20 and see how many you…