Jason Li

@jasonli.bsky.social

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Designer🤹🏻‍♂️artist🤹🏻‍♂️educator. Co-creator of The Hanmoji Handbook, 🦙, 🪳. Editor at Paradise Systems ✍🏽. Links and things 👀 https://links.byjasonli.com/

A photo of a propped up zine with a pink oval in its center with a title that says ETHNIC TRADER JOE'S FAN ZINE, standing on top of a few zines with the same cover, next to three jars of Trader Joe's branded goods: Trader Jose's salsa, Trader Joe San's soyaki, and Trader Giotto's pizza sauce.
Hand holding up a copy of Manjushree Thapa's Tilled Earth (from Penguin India)
A coral restoration metal bed that's propped up on four corners (like a human bed) with rocks tied across its frame and a back-of-head photo of Ho Chi Minh jutting out through the back. In front of the metal bed stands a bundle of cloth with legs and Crocs.
7) The French-speaking, white child declares twice throughout the film that she is in fact Japanese.
3) The film centers around a white Belgian expatriate family living in post-WW2 Japan. It's based on an autobiography. None of the producers, directors or writers are Japanese. (It is a French production.)
a series of slides with clip art and promotional art from the movie with this set of text: 1) Beware fellow Asians! This beautifully animated, Oscar nominated feature film (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) is dripping with ORIENTALISM.
The first two photos are of outreach workers with neon vests walking down a wintry Toronto street and squatting down to talk to a person on the ground, while the narration says, "Met 15 people outside tonight. It's brutally cold. The buildings downtown are wind tunnels pummeling people with cold wet wind and snow from the lake. The city has zero options.
A pinkish poster with an illustration of a ballerina with a big cartoony zebra head standing on the head of a gargoyle-like bull statue. The text advertises that the Zebra Crossing Digital Safety Checklist has had a major renovation in January 2026.
A quick video demonstration showing how the side navigation of the different chapter sections of the checklist works.
A slideshow sequence of a hand drawn cartoon pig making various faces and poses (flexing muscles, shrugging, pretending to be a chemist), and a pig posing in reference to other people’s drawings
A poster featuring a screenshot of the sticker pack in the Signal app. The pack is titled HAMMOJI by The Hanmoji Handbook. And in it, there's a hand-drawn pig pulling various faces and performing various gestures. On the corner of the poster, it says early holiday gift in Christmas colors. In the middle, it says, HAMMOJI stickers now available FREE on privacy-loving mobile messaging app Signal.
Two screenshots of a person with a underwater glass helmet holding a cola can and a ticket. Above them, the text says: "4. Collect items (collect them to unlock bonus rooms and items)"
A pixel art post with a person in shades and a squid in shades. Big text says: "Come hang out with us at our 90s style internet zine party 來我地網上小誌派對一齊同我地玩" and then in smaller text: "Let us show you how it works on our platform! 我地示範一下我地平台功能吧！"
A zine fair at the Cecil Community Centre. Spots are heavily blurred where faces are.
An array of zines sits on a pink table. On the corner is a cardboard sign of a goose waving.
A screenshot of the pixel art event. Above it the numbers 2021 loom large. Below it says: layout: narrow walking on the left, zine browsing on the right. Then next to a checkmark it says many people could log in and walk and talk in the same rooms.
A pixel art poster showing two wide-eyed squids offering a bag of money at the bottom of the ocean. Text on the poster says, ZINE COOP PARTY financial aid for exhibitors (50-100%). 網上派對參展者資助計劃
A green and black poster with the ZINE DUMP logo featuring a dumpster, some text with the details of the fair (Sunday Nov 11, 12-5pm at Cecil Community Centre at 58 Cecil St Toronto) and then some black and white pencil sketches of some geese.
A giant pixel art squid flanked by two people on the left side saying "it's party time" and below the water there's a shark and a smaller squid reading. Text set on top of the giant squid says ZINE友 OPEN CALL ONLINE PARTY
Doing the same before and after thing the bottom panel. The text in the overlay reads: The bottom panel update is much more minor: it's simply a rephrasing of the first sentence to make it smoother and to add an alliteration on the "quality quinoa."
Annotation overlay appears over the top half of the image and says: "We translated it as "the dude" below, but technically it says "big brother" in Chinese. It's always tricky translating older/younger sibling terms into English In this case, since the usage is part of a casual utterance, we went with a casual translation (rather than suddenly dropping "big brother," which would feel like a formal honorific.)"
A poster that says: Behind the scenes of comics translation: A case study of two panels from fenta's comic Our Home, which you can find in our upcoming anthology. Then there's a partial mockup of the anthology book, a "live on Kickstarter" text label and the Paradise Systems logo.
Photo of some signs on a wall: one with an arrow that says “secret”, another with a pair of eyeballs and one that says “this way.” Then in the distance, a doorway into a stall with some prints and zines on a table.
A two-page spread from the comic showing a child and her father eating at a dai pai dong.
a video demo of the p5.riso@home project showing different effect settings applied to a photograph and then an illustration. The video itself is framed by a retro windows 3.1 window frame, set on top of a windows 95 grass and sky background image.
SketcherX, an AI-powered live-caricature robot, from XORBIS, in action at the fair.
A booth featuring the studio’s webtoons, including Study Group (written by Hyungwuk Shin and illustrated by Seungyeon Ryu).
A photo of an empty urban Hong Kong street where an old man is walking in front of a shop with its shutters closed. The shop's sign shows its Chinese name written in bold Chinese characters, and above the sign is a photoshopped sample of the Blow Up Bei Wei font, set to similar size and colors to show how alike they are. Credits below the photo state that it's the Blow Up Bei Wei font, and that the photo is originally from Airam Dato-on via Pexels.com.
A photo of an urban Hong Kong street at night with neon signs. A digital additional sign has been added that features the Zansyu font, laid out so it fits beneath the other neon signs in the photo. Credits below the photo state that it's the Zansyu font, and that the photo is originally from Jimmy Chan via Pexels.com.
A timeline map with the title Mapping Hong Kong’s Digital Typefaces. On the map are 19 different digital typefaces that have their name written in their own font, and they are clustered together and linked to a timeline running down the middle showing which era of Hong Kong they are referencing in their designs.
A screenshot of the Rawaan Alkhatib website that mostly features details about her recently-released cookbook. The color scheme is mostly beige and white, and colorful digital palm trees line the top of the page.
5. Organizing a mutual aid group? Make sure not everyone has access to all of your data, especially people's contacts or home addresses. Stop over-sharing other people's data!
1. I know everyone said download Signal, but y'all, it only works well if a) you turn on disappearing messages, and b) go into the settings to set up a nickname and not allow anyone to find you with your phone number.
An animation of Noto emoji for bread transforming into the Chinese character for bread, bag or to wrap. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of Noto emoji for tooth transforming into the Chinese character for tooth. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of Noto emoji for bug transforming into the Simplified then Traditional Chinese characters for bug or worm. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of Chinese character for uncooked rice transforming into the Apple emoji for cooked rice. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Noto emoji for wind face transforming into the Simplified Chinese character for wind, then the Traditional Chinese character for wind. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for up transforming into the Noto emoji for up arrow. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the the Noto emoji for horse transforming into the Simplified Chinese character for horse then into the Traditional Chinese character for horse. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for work transforming into the Noto emoji for pickaxe. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for alcohol/wine transforming into the Noto emoji for wine glass. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for rain then to the Noto emoji for cloud with rain. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Simplified Chinese character for door morphing into the Traditional Chinese character for door then to the Noto emoji for door. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for rock morphing into the the Noto emoji for rock. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for moon or month morphing into the the Noto emoji for moon. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Traditional Chinese character for fish morphing into the Simplified Chinese character for fish and then the Noto emoji for fish. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for ear morphing into the Noto emoji for ear. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for ghost morphing into the Noto emoji for ghost. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.
An animation of the Chinese character for heart/mind morphing into the Noto emoji for heart. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for sun/day morphing into the Noto emoji for sun and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for mouth morphing into the Noto emoji for mouth and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for bean morphing into the Noto emoji for beans and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for gold morphing into the Noto emoji for coin and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for water morphing into the Noto emoji for water and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for wood morphing into the Noto emoji for tree and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for power morphing into the Noto emoji for flexed biceps and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for fire morphing into its Noto emoji and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for hand morphing into its Apple emoji and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.
An animation of the Chinese character for skewer morphing into its Noto emoji and then back. Meanwhile there is an audio track of the character being pronounced in various languages.