As well as discounted entry with our special chopstick covers*, we gave away tickets to the first 25 people to sign up to our newsletter from the 15th March. Congratulations to those of you who were successful! Even though the draw has ended you can sill fill in the simple news and offers form on our homepage to receive updates on future promotions, new menus and future venue openings.
It's an amazing show – don’t miss it
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TODAY'S CHINA?
Did you know that China is now the world's largest market for mobile phones? That it will soon overtake the USA as the second biggest consumer of luxury goods after Japan? That there's more construction in China than anywhere else in the world? It certainly has the world's largest population and most of us don't go a day without buying or using something which was made there.
China is changing extraordinarily fast. According to Dr. Zhang Hongxing, Co-curator of China Design Now, "Design in China's cities has changed beyond all recognition in the last two decades. This is a moment when you can start talking about things being designed in China, not just made in China."
Herzog & de Meuron, National Statium - the Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China, completion 2008. (Photography by Iwan Baan, MAy 2007)
WHAT WILL YOU SEE AT THE EXHIBITION?
Divided into three sections, the exhibition takes you on a journey from south to north along China's east coast through Shenzhen (China's manufacturing capital with a population whose average age is under 30) to Shanghai and Beijing. Each city is a starting point for the exploration of different design fields - graphic design and visual culture in Shenzhen (where China's contemporary graphic design movement started), fashion and lifestyle in Shanghai and architecture and the city in Beijing. The show looks at China's hopes and dreams, from the entrepreneurial spirit of individual designers to the global ambitions of a nation.
* Available when you dine at Ping Pong from 15th March. Sorry, not available at Ping Pong Festival Terrace.