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Uni-President takes bigger risks on new products; Tingyi has the stronger distribution. The two rivals look less alike every year — but against the young consumers who will decide the next market, both are on the defensive.
We've gathered the best designs and the best arguments of 2017 in one place.
On the question of what the next personal computer will be, Apple still has no answer.
All part of the playbook?
One enemy is the environment. The other, it must be said, is F1 itself.
China's streetwear scene is much livelier than it was ten years ago. But a trend is only a symbol. It is not the same thing as a youth culture.
In part this is a look back at the stories behind these legendary books. But the bigger question is this: why did we end up with the society we have today? What have we been through? What have we gained and lost? What wealth and what consensus have we accumulated? How did we get here?
Behind their success may lie an eye for what people really need, a great deal of hard work, and a passion and curiosity about the world
AlphaGo is going to Wuzhen to play China's Go masters,
A street once called Shanghai's "musical skyline" no longer exists. Do a city's landmarks have to be buildings?
"Making something ahead of its time is a great thing to do, of course. But a product that satisfies the players already in the market is a real success too."
The "10,000-hour rule" says it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in a field. And no, we don't mean anything as simple as comparison shopping.
Good-looking faces and a wuxia style: the animation team says it wanted to make a show that was clean, good-looking and pretty.
Airlines are putting bigger planes in the air, opening more routes, and chasing the people who fly most.
New spokespeople are on the shelf, and new problems have come with them. What happens now to the two companies' sugar-water business?
Turing Award winner Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, and the 28-year rise and fall of the web he built.
Burning cash became a habit, but no industry has found its way out by burning cash.
Domino's is no "freak stock." Its growth rests on a nimble, fast-moving market strategy, and on the $700 billion scale of the US restaurant industry. Next to drug companies and tech companies, a business you can see and eat may be an alternative, smaller kind of "value investing" opportunity.
In part this is a look back at the stories behind these legendary books. But the bigger question is this: why did we end up with the society we have today? What have we been through? What have we gained and lost? What wealth and what consensus have we accumulated? How did we get here?
Partly this is a look back at the stories behind some legendary books. More than that: why did we end up with the society we have? What did we live through? What did we gain and lose? What wealth and what consensus did we accumulate? How did we get here?
Nader Tehrani talked about his design philosophy and his work during "Celebration of Design," the cross-disciplinary exhibition staged by Design Republic.
From raw physical fear and the rejection of anything alien, to today's reflection on humanity itself, monster movies have evolved along with their times.
Its denim patches still look incredibly cool today.
"Cotton Club's live music drew a crowd of long-haired musicians and dope-smoking hippies, and they etched Cotton Club onto Shanghai's cultural map."
It isn't a very systematic exhibition, but it does let you get close to this designer's worldview.
Better educated on average, creating more value, and in steadily growing demand, the blue-collar class may be undoing the old stereotype that manual laborers belong at the bottom of society. These SF Express couriers are a sign of it.
They've brought us Extraordinary Mission — another undercover film.
It's coming back with a pitch nothing like Adidas's — but it can copy Adidas's playbook.
Well known at home but little seen outside Indonesia, Andra Matin has been called “Southeast Asia's best-kept secret.” He was recently invited to Design Republic's cross-disciplinary “Design Carnival” exhibition in Shanghai (March 7 to April 9, 2017),
“Skechers isn't necessarily interested in making the next Air Jordan, because it doesn't need to.”
"Only a free environment can nurture an interesting culture"
Standing out through design may be becoming one way cinema chains remake their brands.
"Oh, please, Americans don't hate the rich. On the contrary, they want to become rich."
One city after another is writing rules, and the bike-sharing companies are using technology to keep their bikes from piling up.
Like Uber and Didi, Airbnb now has a Chinese rival.
Never mind the 90-year history it advertises. This affordable-luxury brand's real commercial life began in 2011.
This is not a buying guide for cat litter.
In its business model, its store-opening strategy and its read on where consumption is heading, Starbucks has “evolved” past McDonald's.
Chasing an androgynous style doesn't make you look cool. Knowing what you want does.
Esports reality shows, web variety shows, livestreaming platforms and capital have all poured in. But what exactly is everyone playing?
More than a decade on, the same three companies still monopolize the Chinese internet — but some things have started to change.
The list of categories keeps getting longer and messier, but the award still shows you what kinds of products are shaping daily life, now and in the years ahead.
For years, Uber was considered the more successful of the two.
Only, it isn't coming back to carry on the music business that made its name and its fortune. It's coming back to make movies.
It may be the most globalized ramen brand there is, and it owes its cool image above all to its first stop abroad: New York.
From any angle, breaking into America's music culture is not an easy thing to do.
The feelings that work in advertising, over and over, are the most basic ones humans have: greed, humor, fear and guilt... and sex.
The root cause is that Silicon Valley has grown less creative.
Michael Meyer thinks Third Aunt, a character in *In Manchuria*, said the wisest thing he has ever heard: “How can you ever know when a place has developed just enough?”
Fifteen objects for eating, drinking, playing, living, traveling, and wearing add up to a survey of the magazine's aesthetic.
The remark from Kasper Rorsted, who took over as Adidas's CEO only last year, looks less like a decision than like the latest forceful endorsement of a much larger trend. For every extra dollar spent on advertising worldwide, 72 cents now goes to digital.
Young people care about more and more things when it comes to politeness and order, and they are touchy about privacy and the distance between people. Most of the time, the order they define means clearer boundaries between people and more space for themselves.
People worry they can no longer get expert enough care. Doctors believe they are the ones being treated unfairly.
"I don't want to live that profoundly, but I don't want to live that easily either."
Visa’s strength and its weakness are the same thing: it sits inside almost every online payment option, and owns no consumer entry point of its own.
"In an age when books are no longer quite books, is it suicide to go on selling books as books and running a bookstore as a bookstore?"
Everything is fragmented now. Short video was always going to change sports, sooner or later.
Its proper name is "drag racing." To a lot of people, it is still a fairly unfamiliar thing.
"Under Armour is an extraordinary success story. The stock has risen almost 2,000% since it went public a decade ago, and risen steadily. But when your core apparel business is what you do every quarter, why try to shoot for the moon?"
And why can someone with no experience in the business cross into beauty so easily, and so widely?
Scan-to-pay service providers helped WeChat and Alipay make mobile payment universal. But transaction fees alone cannot keep them running.
The workplace horror stories on the market sound just plausible enough, and just scary enough, to be hard to see through — and they sell well. Why are they wrong?
One of the first companies into mobile payments, Lakala broke in with hardware. Software services beat it in the end.
A car brand that rose on the strength of its engines, the way BMW did, is unlikely to appear again.
On March 8, 1817, the New York Stock and Exchange Board was founded — the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Universal Studios Japan in Osaka is adding visitors faster than any other theme park in the world's top ten.
Where do publishing's blockbusters actually come from? Celebrity memoirs are the best case to study.
One thing is certain: it's a sport made for posting on WeChat Moments.
“The moment a foreigner stands there, everything changes — it's no longer some house in a remote mountain village, it's a future international city.”
It has cornered the market and still sees no path to profit. What do you do when the internet's "second half" arrives?
The pollution itself is not in dispute. Who is responsible for it has become impossible to pin down.
"The cultural meaning of sneakers changes as the relationship between makers and buyers changes"
First it was because games were booming. Then it was because Hollywood ran out of ideas. Now the game companies have joined in too.
It missed the best window for expanding its brand, and it never had the grip to run a chain. At bottom it had no real competitive edge, and in the end it became a story to regret.
Coca-Cola can make money on a recipe that hasn't changed in 100 years. Apple can't.
And, it's said, a backlash against effeminate fashion
Leagues used to treating athletes as merchandise have found a new way to put numbers on their trades.
“I find students very hard to teach now. Scholarship is hard to do, teaching is hard too — nothing like when we were students.”
From needling the president and brand-new policies to catch the eye, to backing one side's politics to advertise a brand's own stance and values — if people care about it, there seems to be nothing they won't put in an ad.
"I've never liked this film being labeled a gay documentary, because what I'm saying goes far beyond that. But if it gives people a less fractured, less fragmented, less one-sided way of seeing what gay people are actually like, I don't think that's a bad thing either."
Homes for villagers? Guesthouses for tourists? Whatever they turn out to be, the government believes they will bring this small place talk and visitors.
There's no clear answer. Every understanding of commercial cinema is rooted in the era it belongs to.
"What are we going to do with the future?" Alessandro Michele, who asks the question, has no intention of answering it — and that posture is considered "cool."
QDaily interviewed 20 people, most of them from academia, the media and publishing. What they share is a long-standing interest in public affairs and a hope of passing on a “good society.” The question we put to them: as the younger generation becomes more and more the mainstream of society, is this the future world we hoped for?
Eleven years after Apple first began planning it, the $5 billion Apple Park opens in April.
The hit film La La Land has shots that pay homage to Seijun Suzuki's way of making movies.
More than a decade on, they have become completely different companies.
Once counterfeits and too many identical jackets on the street have burned off the novelty and the cool, how does Canada Goose keep the brand alive? UGG, Timberland and Havaianas flip-flops, which rose the same way, all face the same question.
"Unilever does not see any economic or strategic merit for shareholders in the proposal, and the company does not see a basis for further discussion." Why was Unilever so unyielding?
The way recruitment sites are remaking themselves is a microcosm of the entire internet industry
Who decides, and how did food emoji end up the way they are?
Forced to pull back at home, Didi has no choice but to go abroad.
"China needs your time and your patience. It's very different from Hong Kong — there are countless markets here, and a kind of cultural and material diversity you won't find on a continent like Europe."
Designing the product matters; designing the whole process that makes it matters more. Which meant Nike had to develop the material and the machines itself.
Outbound travel over Chinese New Year cost more than 10,000 yuan a head in 2017. Did you do your part?
Ten years after going public, Bosideng has wanted a great many things, but it still hasn't worked out three key questions: what the brand stands for, what its core asset is, and what consumers actually want.
QDaily interviewed 20 people, most of them from academia, media and publishing. What they share is a long habit of paying attention to public affairs, and the hope of passing on a "good society." The question we put to them: as the younger generation becomes more and more the mainstream of society, is that the future world we want?
The numbers look big at first glance. Work them out and they don't amount to much.
No clear strategy, no clear thinking — so where does the goal of 10 billion yuan in profit and a group-wide listing by 2020 even come from?
Snail mucus products now carry consumers' hopes of staying forever young, and satisfy their taste for the strange at the same time.