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Happy Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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rachy-chel · 11 months
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Maysia 2: new year
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smashpages · 1 year
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‘Spirit World,’ ‘The Vigil’ and ‘City Boy’ spin out of Lazarus Planet in May
DC will launch three new series featuring Asian heroes and creators during Asian American Pacific Islander Month.
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arcadialedger · 11 months
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Wanted to highlight two Pacific Islander properties coming up for PI part of AAPI Heritage Month!
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The first is ‘Hailey’s On It!”, a new Disney Channel show starring the voice of Moana, Auli’i Cravalho.
The second is middle grade book ‘Lei and the Fire Goddess’ by own voices author Malia Maunkea.
Both come out soon and you should absolutely support them!
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lotus-duckies · 1 year
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Brb going to cry about this photo for the rest of my life
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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Typography Tuesday
Japanese Dimensional Type
The Japanese sculptor and graphic designer Takenobu Igarachi is well-noted for his axonometric type designs. Igarachi is particularly fond of Roman letter forms, but today we are only showing designs based on Japanese characters from his book Takenobu Igarashi A-Z, published in London by Thames & Hudson in 2020.
The Japanese use four different kinds of characters: kanji imported from China; katakana and hiragana invented by the Japanese; romaji, the Roman alphabet from the West. Kanji are ideographs that use about 7000 characters on average. Hiragana are phonetic symbols devised by women of high society around the 7th to 9th centuries consisting of 50 letters. Katagana, a phonetic alphabet  of 50 characters, was invented by Buddhist monks for reading sutra and is made of parts of kanji in simplified form. Comparatively, romaji, or Roman letters used for the Japanese language, is far more simple in shape and structure. In the first two images, Igarachi presents a variety of dimensional Japanese character's.
The last set of images are visualizations of the kanji character hibiki, derived from the Chinese character which means sound, resonance, or echo, representing the corporate philosophy of Igarachi’s client, the Japanese brewing and distilling company Suntory Limited. Working through various morphings of the kanji character, he arrived at what became the Suntory corporate logo. Later, Igarachi made a 3D version utilizing the arch, which was made into a sculpture that adorns the Suntory hall entrance.
View another post from Takenobu Igarashi A-Z.
View more posts on dimensional letters.
View our other Typography Tuesday posts.
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rockislandadultreads · 11 months
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Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month: Nonfiction Recommendations
Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina
Elizabeth's mother was working on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance defining their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood, while feeling almost no connection to her mother's distant home and out of place among her peers. This account is a heartfelt exploration of identity and what it means to be an American.
Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy
Original and expansive, this volume is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the U.S. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare.
Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
Born two years after her parents' only son died just hours after his birth, Kat Chow became unusually fixated with death. She worried constantly about her parents dying - especially her mother. Four years later when her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her two older sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. In this memoir, Kat weaves together what is part ghost story and part excavation of her family's history of loss spanning three generations and their immigration from China and Hong Kong to America and Cuba.
Rise by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, & Philip Wang
In this intimate, eye-opening, and frequently hilarious guided tour through the pop-cultural touchstones and sociopolitical shifts of the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and beyond, authors Yang, Yu, and Wang chronicle how we’ve arrived at today’s unprecedented diversity of Asian American cultural representation through engaging, interactive graphics, charts, graphic essays from major AAPI artists, exclusive roundtables with Asian American cultural icons, and more.
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heavenboy09 · 1 year
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And So April is come and gone.
Now on Begins the 1st day of May. With that being said this this new month brings the 8 brings the Asian culture and Pacific islander culture To become more aware than ever before with recent events of having a lot of Asian Hate.
Now is the time to be able to put a stop to all this. More than ever to learn more about Asian and Pacific islander culture and to continue that for many generations to come to learn of their beautiful and wonderful diversity of their way of life.
May is the month all of the Asian communities and Pacific islander communities and their stories to be told from now till the end of May and even then. Tell them all year long like every other Culture and Race, and Religion.
One Month does not hold us to tell Everyone's Stories. But It means alot to Represent Every Culture For the Month They are Given.
Representation Matters.
Divisterity Matters
And more Importantly.
STOP ASIAN HATE.
We are all part of one World 🌎
But we all can't be Happy if we can't learn to Love one another.
That goes for everyone and anyone.
Tell your family, your friends, and etc.
Half of my Good friends are Asian. They have been part of my life for a long time and I don't plan on having that being torn apart because of Ignorance.
Support Their People and Learn all you can about The Way Of Asia 🌏 and The Way Of Pacific Islands 🏝
THIS IS AAPI MONTH
THIS IS ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH 🌏👲🇨🇳🎎🏝🌺🇭🇰🇯🇵🏣💴⛩🈷️🍡🏯🇮🇳🍛🌊🐚🗿🌴 #AAPI #AsianAmericanPacificIslander #AAPIHertiageMonth #stopasianshate
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Happy AAPI month! The queer community historically has been very weird and fetishistic towards Asian people and they should stop that please. You are not immune to Asian fetishization just because you’re not a cishet white guy.
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locklylemybeloved · 1 year
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HAPPY AAPI MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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bimonkee · 11 months
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Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!!
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I wasn’t seeing much Pacifica Islander rep up on the internet so I’m here to give some appreciation to all my Pacific Islanders out there, with some of my Pacifika Oc’s and drawings!!
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Happy Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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rachy-chel · 1 year
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Maysia 1: OOTD/what’s in my bag
Hello everybody look at all this stuff I got❗️
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smashpages · 1 year
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Spirit World #1 (DC, May 2023) AAPI Heritage Month cover by Zu Orzu. Part of DC’s “We Are Legends” line.
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arcadialedger · 1 year
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For AAPI Month, I’d like to highlight Alina Starkov and celebrate her half Shu heritage in the show.
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Jessie Mei Li is simply an amazing actor in the role, and changing Alina’s heritage to mixed was brilliantly worked into the story. I truly hope we get to see her fully power up as Alina!
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lotus-duckies · 1 year
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no one does it like the polynesians
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