Comments on: Emerald Cities: The Catalogue

By: NikkiYeager

NikkiYeager — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:06:37 +0000

The pictures of the book are beautiful, but hardly do it justice. Once I read the description of the cover and materials it really blew my mind. Have you been to Southeast Asia? I went Cambodia and it completely changed my art.

By: jintora

jintora — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:57:35 +0000

the art of gods, very intricate fashion.

By: jintora

jintora — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:54:47 +0000

i here by to stand on firm ground, that thai culture and relgious arts based on history and myths, that their fore father agenda with cambodia tradition will continued. my adoration of the bird man are very intricately done. i strongly voted on this art as the best of both culture khmer and thai

By: 7junipers.com » Friday roundup

7junipers.com » Friday roundup — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:04:50 +0000

[...] Cataloguing art from Burma and Siam : Via the Asian Art Museum blog [...]

By: xensen

xensen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:05:43 +0000

Thanks, Mike. We support local printers and do a large amount of print business locally. Unfortunately, the astronomical costs of printing a book like this locally would make it impossible to do at all.

By: sfmike

sfmike — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:29:34 +0000

Looks lovely. Why are you printing it in Hong Kong, though, rather than locally?

By: bittermelon

bittermelon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:07:48 +0000

If this book was walking down the street, I most certainly would be tempted to whistle at it, but would quickly realize that such a classy thing of beauty deserves more in the form of praise.

By: xensen

xensen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:14:43 +0000

The typefaces are Perpetua and Storm Baskerville. Really there wasn't a lot of agonizing over the faces. Tag proposed them and they seemed fine. Baskerville has a 19th-century quality (the main period of the artworks) and a degree of verticality that seems appropriate to the subject. If might not have occurred to me to pair it with Perpetua, which is a more modern face (designed in the late 1920 by Eric Gill) that has a kind of chiseled quality, but the two work very well together.

By: namastenancy

namastenancy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:55:32 +0000

How did you decide on what type face to use? I can’t see it that well but it looks like it works beautifully with the more elaborate art from Burma.

By: xensen

xensen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:54:56 +0000

Thank you, nico and namastenancy. Like you, I am anxious to see the finished book. We will still be proofing color in July. The press check will be in August–at the Asian we press check all of our titles–and the surface shipment of books is scheduled to arrive at the museum October 3, barring any delays with customs.