Shanghai: Art of the City
the catalogue cover

shanghai catalogue cover

When I showed pages from our upcoming Shanghai catalogue previously I was not ready to show a cover. It looks now like this cover will probably be it. The image is a detail from a poster from the deco period. The image below shows the front cover together with the spine and back  cover.

shanghai-full-cover

What do you think? What qualities does this convey to you?

7 Responses to “Shanghai: Art of the City
the catalogue cover”

  1. bittermelon  on July 29th, 2009 at 10:25 am

    WOW! Not what I was expecting, but I like it. Dynamic and bustling, just like the city itself. I like the typeface, and how it seems to weave with the artwork. My only minor “thing” is that I wish the word “City” was in front of that spire.

  2. nico  on July 29th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    I was concerned that the aeroplanes were going to get blocked out in the earlier versions of the cover. It IS dynamic, frenetic, and city all the way.

  3. namastenancy  on July 29th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    Dynamic yet with a Asian feel – certainly the way I thought of Shanghai in the 1930′s. I am fascinated by China and the 1930′s were such an important period – tragic that so much potential was destroyed by WW II.

  4. xensen  on July 30th, 2009 at 7:47 am

    Thanks, bittermelon, nico, and namastenancy. It does capture the bustle of the city, I think.

  5. nahry  on July 31st, 2009 at 11:31 am

    I think the Shanghai catalogue cover is FANTASTIC!

  6. Julie Vognar  on August 4th, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    I think the COVER of the Shanghai catalogue looks like a 1920s-30s city…anywhere! (Maybe especially Europe.)

  7. dany  on September 21st, 2009 at 7:45 am

    Julie Vognar is right on the money: I just came back from Shanghai two weeks ago, and the city certainly still looks like a city anywhere, meaning, if it weren’t for the Chinese advertisements and signs, one wouldn’t know it was a Chinese city.


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