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Neon Is Not Dead is more than just a book — it’s a celebration and preservation of an endangered art form. Lushly illustrated over 330 pages. It’s vivid, fast-paced and deeply researched. Written and produced by indie publishing house Zolima.
This is the story of the light born in Paris, perfected in Shanghai, celebrated in cities from Los Angeles to Tokyo — and which glowed nowhere more brilliantly than in Hong Kong.
Neon Is Not Dead traces neon’s global journey and how it became inseparable from Hong Kong’s identity. From legendary signs on Nathan Road to workshops where master craftsmen still bend glass by hand, explore with us the neon’s rise, fall and reinvention.
Christopher DeWolf has been writing about Hong Kong for more than 20 years, earning a reputation as one of the city’s leading journalists on architecture, design, history and culture. The author of Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong (Penguin, 2017), DeWolf has been Zolima CityMag’s managing editor since its launch in 2015, as well as the editor and co-author of the Zolima Culture Guide series of books. His award-winning work has also appeared in other magazines and books around the world including TIME, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Good Beer Hunting and Spacing.
Elizabeth Kerr is a native of Canada who has lived in Hong Kong since 2004. A Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cinema), she has worked in the film industry since finishing university, in production and for non-profit festivals, and she has written about cinema since 2002. Kerr has covered various international film festivals in South Korea, Berlin, Toronto, Shanghai, Tokyo, India and Italy. Along with being Zolima CityMag’s resident film expert, she has been a contributor to trade publications Screen International and The Hollywood Reporter, along with China Daily Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post, KaiFong, RTHK and The Peak. Her media career highlight to date was attending San Diego Comic-Con. (She describes herself as a nerd.) Her work on and off set, combined with a dedication to devouring Hong Kong movies back when they could only be found in the dusty corners of niche video stores.
Wing Shya works across film, art, design and fashion. After graduating from Emily Carr Institute in Canada, he returned to Hong Kong and founded the award-winning Shya-La-La Workshop, earning wide recognition for his typography and graphic design within Hong Kong’s music and pop culture industries. In 1997, he began a long-running collaboration with filmmaker Wong Kar-wai as still photographer and graphic designer on films including Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046, later expanding into art and fashion films for brands such as Saint Laurent. Shya later emerged as a director, creating music videos, fashion films and two feature films, Hot Summer Days and Love in Space. His fine-art practice has been exhibited internationally, including at Mori Art Museum, Art Basel Miami, the V&A, Kyotographie, and major museums in China.
