THE SANDWICH CLUB
DateProject TitleArtistBinding Method
03/2026Nomad Notes Issue 4: CamphorYi DaiSingle section binding + Blind debossed hardcover
02/2026Introducing Notes on an Imagined City: The Copy as CureSvenja TongPerfect Binding
12/20252026 CalendarSvenja TongCoil Binding
10/2025Nomad Notes Issue 3: OverlandAn TranSingle section binding + Blind debossed hardcover
08/2025Oi Man Tsuen 愛民邨 (Second Version)Amandine Vabre ChauSaddle Stitch Binding
04/2025Nomad Notes Issue 2: In Search Of...Siobhan ChoSingle section binding + Blind debossed hardcover
01/2025長物 Superfluous MattersRose WeiFrench fold + Perfect bound + Debossed hardcover
09/2024Taipei, and LondonAnna LiuRisograph printed postcards on die-cut box
08/2024Nomad Notes Issue 1: Lost in TimeSiobhan ChoSingle section binding + Blind debossed hardcover
07/2024Mikan EnikkiStudio ATOFSingle section binding + Foil blocked hardcover
06/2024IKEA LoungingcanfishflyCoptic binding + Foil blocked hardcover
05/2024Oi Man Tsuen 愛民邨Amandine Vabre ChauPamphlet stitch with thread
04/2024HND (Haneda)Black SkewCoil Binding
11/2023Everywhere I’ve been in the last yearKoko MorrillFolded zine with attachment
11/2023Ryu Issue 2Chisa KubotaPamphlet stitch with thread
10/2023London Street FighterElizabeth LumFolded instant zine with poster
10/2023Dear John,Victoria LiCoptic Bound + Swiss brouchure style cover
10/2023Ryu Issue 1Chisa KubotaSaddle stitch with thread
07/2023HangoverRose WeiFolded instant zine set with posters
03/2023Moments Before TragedycanfishflySingle section binding + Foil blocked hardcover
03/2023BreatheSvenja TongPamphlet stitch with thread
02/2023Hundred FeelingsRose WeiPerfect Bound
10/2022Entering My Gardencanfishfly, Svenja TongCoptic Bound with foil blocked cover

Notes on an Imagined City: The Copy as Cure  by Svenja Tong

How do cities perform for visitors who await them? And how might tourist gaze turn streets and places into destinations of desire?

Notes on an Imagined City is a 220-page publication developed through a research-through-design approach. Through the lens of Paris Syndrome, where acute emotional distress arises when lived reality fails to portray the idealised expectation, the book traces Paris and its replicas in Hangzhou, Las Vegas, Macau, and Florida, interrogating the reproduction and reconstruction of the image of the city that reflects on longing, cultural projection, and escape.

Through imagery, annotations, and visual languages inspired by doctors’ handwriting, the publication suggests replicas as a speculative cure for disappointed fantasies: what if the shock of encountering could be treated by restaging an ideal elsewhere?

ISBN: 978-1-0681814-8-1

220pp, Edition of 100.

1-colour offset with Metallic Gold Pantone 871 C, risograph printed with Metallic Gold & HD Black ink

Perfect Bound, First Edition
 Edited & Designed by Svenja Tong