TYPO CABINET

Honk Kong In Between

Architectural Book Series

General informations

• June 2015
• Edited by Géraldine Borio and Caroline Wüthrich
• Published by Park Books and MCCM creations
• Language: Englisch, Chinese
• ISBN: 978-3-906027-77-7
• Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Siri Bachmann

Technical informations

• Softcover with plastic dusk jacket, 150 × 210 mm, 248 pages
• Typeface: PX Grotesk by Nicolas Eigenheer
• Print: Regal Printing, Hong Kong

Concept

“Hong Kong In Between”, is a book by authors Géraldine Borio and Caroline Wüthrich, and dedicated to Hong Kong’s back alleys where the stool-bag or “STAG” was developed.

For the illustrations and photographs, we selected a special local baking paper with its matte and coated sides. The book was printed using unique Chinese black ink. 

Despite the strong content structure, the book appears as a visual whole. Its density, visual language and reminiscent feel are of manga. The book is compact, handy and covered with plastic dust jacket. It is a hybrid editorial format between city guide, manga and book of architectural analysis.

With a column for English text on the left and another for Chinese on the right (based on the Chinese newspaper column width), a wide middle lane is opened for an array of images, maps and quotes. This use of print space, incorporating both text formats, corresponds to the bilingualism of the book, referring to the “in-between”.