Comments on: Shanghai: Art of the City the catalogue cover

By: dany

dany — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:45:00 +0000

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.

By: Julie Vognar

Julie Vognar — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:33:41 +0000

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

By: nahry

nahry — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:31:06 +0000

I think the Shanghai catalogue cover is FANTASTIC!

By: xensen

xensen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:47:01 +0000

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

By: namastenancy

namastenancy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:20:45 +0000

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.

By: nico

nico — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:15:04 +0000

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.

By: bittermelon

bittermelon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:25:07 +0000

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.