by James Yang | Jul 11, 2017 | blog
Art Director Lisa Sergi from Brown University called with essay by Maxim Shrayer titled “Writing in Tongues”. It about the struggle to find your voice as a writer in a new country and new language. Maxim grew up in the Soviet Union and had to learn how to...
by James Yang | Apr 28, 2015 | blog
Detroit has been on the radar as an emerging new center for creatives so it was a pleasure to hear from AD Valerie Morgan at Hour Detroit. They have been a client on and off for over 15 years and I have enjoyed watching the publication grow. Language is one of my...
by James Yang | Apr 14, 2015 | blog
The Chronicle of Higher Education called with an assignment about the how multilingual people see the world versus people who speak a single language. Turns out the world is seems more varied and bigger for those who speak more than one language. The structure of...
by James Yang | Aug 12, 2014 | blog, editorial, projects
Coming from a family of scientists, it’s always exciting to when Scientific American calls and even better when the subject is about language. In my book, language as a subject matter is fertile ground for ideas. Patti Nemoto had a fascinating series of...