China 42: Chinese Comic Sans

24 February 2009

Front and back, the entrances to the theatre are beneath the water bassin surrounding the egg.

Ahem. When hiring reknown foreign architect firms to design multi-million buildings, you think you can spend a few on the signage too. It doesn’t take a chinese calligrapher to recognize poor typography. Unfortunately not limited to Paul Andreu’s “Egg/Space Shuttle” National Grand Theatre, these caracters must be embeded into millions of computers (or signage factories) for I am spotting these eyesores regularly, slapped over everything as though they were all [still] Stalinist constructions.