Diffusion Kitchen | MING Poster Design
Food& music& ArtDiffusion Kitchen covers intercultural food, music and art in San Antonio, Texas via interviews, reviews, recipes, playlists & more. We’re launching in January 2021 as a DJ duo serving fresh selections of contemporary and classic pan-Asian & diaspora sounds every Sunday afternoon at Ming’s (914 East Elmira St). Later in 2021 Diffusion Kitchen will also launch an email newsletter with interviews and reviews, and a print magazine covering food, music and art around San Antonio.
Diffusion Kitchen is:
Emma Xiaoming Sun, a video producer and home chef from Suzhou, China. Her production reel includes a short video for Sesame Street’s “Foodie Truck” segment about a seaweed farm. She moved to San Antonio in March. In addition to her role as a producer, Emma also works as a writer, translator and interpreter, covering topics relating to contemporary Chinese culture and society for outlets including Variety. In China she performs as a vocalist with musician Dawei, and as a DJ her selections tend toward the danceable end of J-pop, mando classics, city pop and rap.
Josh Feola, a writer and editor whose work focuses on culture, especially music and art. A regular contributor to The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Tone Glow and Glasstire, he’s written extensively about subculture in China, where he lived from 2009-2020. Josh’s DJ selections draw from his experience as a touring musician in China and his extensive archive of interviews with musicians from all over the world, mostly East and Southeast Asia. He also loves playing noise, psych, post-punk and other genres that Emma can’t handle for too long at a time.
The poster design extends MING’s signature pouch combined with the imagery of two DJ performances from Diffusion Kitchen,
As well as related totem elements (Mexican totem + cactus) that are only available in the local area, we hope that this poster design will give viewers a psychedelic atmosphere of enjoying food and music.