Weight of Insomnia
Liu Xiaodong: Weight of Insomnia is a book/catalogue designed for Lisson Gallery and detailing the process of Liu Xiaodong’s technologically radical project that’s been ongoing since 2015, where large painting machines connected to live streaming cameras around the world painted scenes of urban landscapes, each robot painting continuously for 3 months, day and night, slowly rendering a monochrome image.
The bilingual book is typeset entirely in 12pt SimSun (Zhongyi Electronics Co.), a standard Chinese-first mono serif typeface lending a digital and sometimes sinister quality to the pages.
Silver ink is used extensively throughout this book, a reference to the glow of the screen and the metallic machine, suspending the book in a constant flux between light and dark. Process images have been printed in five colours using Color Library’s CMYK+Silver profile.
240×320 mm, hardback, 184 pp
2 Comments on “Weight of Insomnia”
Hi, I have a question.
We want to use 'Simsun’ Font that is included in Windows 10 with commercial use. Does it have something problem?
Thanks,
Kenichiro Ishimoto
Hi Kenichiro,
I would assume that there is no problem if you have a licensed copy of Windows 10 and are using the font on the machine where the operating system is installed. But I haven’t read the EULA for Windows 10 – you probably want to check what it says about bundled font software. Alternatively, I would assume that Beijing ZhongYi Electronics Co. can answer this question.