Shanghai Posters: The Power of Advertising – Anna Hestler

Passing through Hong Kong this week I noticed this book, Shanghai Posters by Anna Hestler, everywhere – not sure if FormAsia have reissued it or if they’ve made a larger sized version of one of their smaller books (it was originally published in 2005 but seems to be getting a renaissance). Anyway, it is a nice book of images of old Shanghai advertising and FormAsia always do a nice job on the design and printing. It’s not an overly in-depth study or anything like that (for that try Ellen Johnston Laing’s Selling Happiness – not sure that’s been bettered yet?) but it’ll sit nicely on a coffee table (a rather Chinois one of course)…