Twitter Fail Whale

In Chinese, Yiying are two words for “happy,” and “creative.” In some ways it’s an appropriate name for artist YiYing Lu who has an upbeat, bubbly personality. She believes the best way to pronounce her name correctly is to smile while saying it. It is also odd that Yiying is the artist behind Twitter’s now famous Fail Whale. You know the one. It’s that image you hate to see when Twitter is over capacity and can’t process whatever you’re requesting. Even more, the Fail Whale’s path to fame...Read Full Story

If you’ve been on Twitter in the past month, you’ve probably bumped into the Fail Whale once or twice. The popular social network has been crashing pretty consistently from an influx of tweets and traffic. Seeing the whale, you (like everyone else) might have been frustrated — you might have yelled at the screen. You might hate that whale. If you do, chances are you don’t know Yiying Lu or the story behind the Fail Whale, originally called “Lifting a Dreamer.” The whale (first drawn as an...Read Full Story

QR Codes are becoming more and more prevalent in the fashion industry — and artist Yiying Lu has taken it to an “iconic” level. For those of you who don’t know what QR codes are, they are those pixelated, clustered barcode-looking things that you may see on advertisements in magazines, street billboards, and in the subways. You can scan them with your smart phone and the result is a “Quick Response” (hence QR) that leads to some sort of site, app or other cool techie outlet. Illustrator...Read Full Story

No doubt, no good would happen once the Fail Whale appeared on the Twitter homepage, but the Twitter Fail Whale cake is an exception. It seems the Fail Whale has never been delicious like the following fun cake . The Twitter Fail Whale cake is created by Mariana Pugliese , a cake designer from Buenos Aires. From the images, we can see the famous whale designed by Yiying Lu a Chinese illustrator has completely fly out from the image. 10 Twitter birds, a white whale and blue sea with...Read Full Story

No doubt, no good would happen once the Fail Whale appeared on the Twitter homepage, but the Twitter Fail Whale cake is an exception. It seems the Fail Whale has never been delicious like the following fun cake . The Twitter Fail Whale cake is created by Mariana Pugliese , a cake designer from Buenos Aires. From the images, we can see the famous whale designed by Yiying Lu a Chinese illustrator has completely fly out from the image. 10 Twitter birds, a white whale and blue sea with...Read Full Story