Yellow Pages: Singapore

• Special section, Idea, no. 372
• 2016
• offset lithograph
• 225 x 297 mm, 16 pp

Yellow Pages was a serial about East Asian graphic design, conceived and edited by Goto Tetsuya, with Javin Mo from Hong Kong as an associate editor, and published as a separate section of Idea, an international graphic design magazine. Each issue tells a story about a city and its design in the voice of a local designer. The seventh and the final installment of the series, published in Idea, no. 372, covers Singapore, and the design office Foreign Policy Design Group, founded by Arthur Chin and Yu Yah-Leng.

The name of the series, Yellow Pages, is a conscious play on an Asian stereotype, as well as indicative of the series’ intended use as a reference. The title is literally expressed by the pages’ background color. The densely packed pages and the rough texture created by the bold, monospaced typefaces reflect the contemporary Asian cityscape.