I first worked with Samantha when she served as the Director of RMBCity for Vitamin Creative Space here in Beijing. Samantha, like myself, had lived in the South of China, but her Cantonese far surpassed mine!

She had been working on several interesting projects like her New Territories Border Studies Tumblr and Many Mansions film, and needed a simple simple site like some others we had built for Matt Hope and others. We cranked out her simple and clean design, connected with her domain name, and her blog has been flowing since. Check out her posts!

More recently Samantha is a talent scout at W+K in Shanghai:

Recently I became the “creative talent scout” for Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai – their first in this somewhat bizarre-sounding role, I believe. I’ll be helping to expand W+K’s network of emerging Chinese talent and pool of creative collaborators (with an emphasis on China, but also across Asia and internationally).

I’ll also be curating an events program in our office here, open to the Shanghai creative community at large, to bring in cross-disciplinary inspiration and strengthen W+K Shanghai as a local creative hub.

Follow Samantha on her blog.