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On The Sunny Side: The Danbury Mad Hatter Chorus, 1966–2016. Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox. Published by Danbury, Connecticut, Mad Hatter Chorus (2017). [x + 125 pp.; 27 photographs, many full color] Design and production. [back and front covers]

Golf at Yale: The Players, The Teams, The Course. John A. Godley and William W. Kelly. Published by Marvelwood Press, New Haven, Connecticut (2009). [xiv + 259 pp.; 154 illustrations, most full color] Design and production, including cover. [back and front covers | typical interior spread]

Japan and the World: Japan’s Contemporary Geopolitical Challenges; In Honor of the Memory and Intellectual Legacy of Asakawa Kan’ichi. Edited by Masaru Kohno and Frances Rosenbluth. Yale CEAS Occasional Publications, vol. 2. Published by Yale University Council on East Asian Studies (2008). [xvi + 294 pp.; 12 illustrations; 6 tables] Design and production, including original cover design. [back and front covers | spread containing isolated Japanese words in a Japanese font]

▲ Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series

. . . since 1994, design and production of the series of scholarly monographs published by the Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies. In 2010 the SEAS monographs were redesigned for on-demand digital printing with a more versatile typeface and full-color covers. In 2019, SEAS published Monograph #66, Living in a Sacred Cosmos, in both print and, for the first time, as a Kindle ebook. All future monographs, as well as selected previously published volumes, are expected to be released as coordinated print and ebook editions. See the SEAS program for details and where to purchase volumes.

JUST RELEASED — Published December 2023 (print) and February 2024 (Kindle): SEAS #69 — Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, editor. (2023 and 2024).
[x + 296 pp. = 306 pp.; 8 illustrations]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]
Print edition converted by MetaGlyfix to EPUB 3-standard Kindle (available on Amazon.com), with advanced features such as “Word Wise,” “Enhanced Typesetting,” “Page Flip,” and “Real Page Numbers” enabled, and with a live, paragraph-referenced index.

Old wine, new bottle — Kindle edition, published May 2023, of 2008 SEAS Monograph #58 — Contested Democracy and the Left in the Philippines after Marcos, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo (2008).
[xx + 424 pp.; 9 maps; 4 tables]. [back and front covers]
Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. Newly converted by MetaGlyfix to EPUB 3-standard Kindle and published by SEAS on Amazon.com, with advanced features such as “Word Wise,” “Enhanced Typesetting,” “Page Flip,” and “Real Page Numbers” enabled, and with a live index.

Published December 2020 (print) and January 2021 (Kindle): SEAS #68 — Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, editor. (2020 & 2021).
[xii + 380 pp. = 392 pp.; 4 tables, 1 illustration]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]
Converted by MetaGlyfix to EPUB 3-standard Kindle and published by SEAS on Amazon.com, with advanced features such as “Word Wise,” “Enhanced Typesetting,” “Page Flip,” and “Real Page Numbers” enabled, and with a live, paragraph-referenced index.

Published July 2019 (print) and January 2020 (Kindle): SEAS #67 — Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of East Timor, Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen. (2019 & 2020).
[xviii + 242 pp. = 260 pp.; 4 maps; 35 illustrations, 12 tables]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]
Converted by MetaGlyfix to EPUB 3-standard Kindle and published by SEAS on Amazon.com, with advanced features such as “Word Wise,” “Enhanced Typesetting,” “Page Flip,” and “Real Page Numbers” enabled, and with a live index.

Published July 2018 (print) and March 2019 (Kindle): SEAS #66 — Living in a Sacred Cosmos: Indonesia and the Future of Islam, Bernard Adeney-Risakotta. (2018 & 2019).
[xviii + 408 pp. = 426 pp.; 4 maps, 3 illustrations, 12 tables]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]
Converted by MetaGlyfix to EPUB 3-standard Kindle and published by SEAS on Amazon.com, with advanced features such as “Word Wise,” “Enhanced Typesetting,” “Page Flip,” and “Real Page Numbers” enabled.

Published August 2016: SEAS #65 — The Rise of the Octobrists in Contemporary Thailand: Power and Conflict Among Former Left-Wing Student Activists in Thai Politics, Kanokrat Lertchoosakul. (2016).
[xx + 314 pp. = 334 pp.; 3 illustrations, 6 tables]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]

Published April 2015: SEAS #64 — Gold in Southeast Asia, Ruth Barnes, Emma Natalya Stein, and Benjamin Diebold, editors. (2015).
[xviii + 290 pp. = 308 pp.; 130 illustrations (125 photographs, 3 tables, 2 maps)]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]

Published December 2013: SEAS #63 — Excursions into Eastern Indonesia: Essays on History and Social Life, R.H. Barnes. (2013).
[xiv + 398 pp. = 412 pp.; 49 illustrations (44 photographs, 5 line drawings, 3 tables); 8 maps]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]

Published October 2012: SEAS #62 — The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia, Nicholas Herriman. (2012).
[xviii + 174 pp. = 192 pp.; 2 illustrations; 1 table]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers]

Published December 2011: SEAS #61 — Allegories of the Vietnamese Past: Unification and the Production of a Modern Historical Identity, Wynn Wilcox. (2011).
[x + 212 pp.; 8 illustrations]. Design, typography, and production by MetaGlyfix. This volume includes fonts and characters in Vietnamese. [back and front covers |  spread showing an illustration and Vietnamese text | spread showing Chinese and VIetnamese passages]

Published summer 2011: SEAS #60 — Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia, Thomas Gibson and Kenneth Sillander, editors. (2011). [x + 312 pp.; 3 tables, 3 maps, 5 illustrations]. Design, typography, illustrations, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers |  spread containing a map | spread containing two illustrations]

Published summer 2010: SEAS #59 — Renunciation and Power: The Quest for Sainthood in Contemporary Burma, Guillaume Rozenberg, translated from the French by Jessica Hackett. (2010). [xiv + 182 pp.; 1 map, 1 illustration] Design, typography, illustrations, and production by MetaGlyfix. [back and front covers | spread containing pasages of Burmese text in a Burmese font]

▲ Earlier SEAS volumes in print:

• #58 [back and front covers], Contested Democracy and the Left in the Philippines after Marcos, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo (2008)
• #57 [back and front covers] and [sample spread], Hoa Lo/Hanoi Hilton Stories, Nguyen Chi Thien (2007)
• #56 [back and front covers], Fine Description: Ethnographic and Linguistic Essays, Harold C. Conklin; edited by Joel Kuipers and Ray McDermott (2007)
• #55 [back and front covers], Beyond Suspicion? The Singapore Judiciary, Francis T. Seow (2006). Foreword by Gary Woodard
• #54 [back and front covers], Conserving Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia, Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, and Amity A. Doolittle, eds. (2005)
• #53 [back and front covers], Seeds of Knowledge: The Beginning of Integrated Pest Management in Java, Yunita Triwardani Winarto (2004)
• #52 [back and front covers], Founders’ Cults in Southeast Asia: Ancestors, Polity, and Identity, Nicola Tannenbaum and Cornelia Ann Kammerer, eds. (2003)
• #51 [back and front covers], Tribes of the North Thailand Frontier, Jane Richardson Hanks and Lucien Mason Hanks (2001)
• #50 [back and front covers], Heaven Becomes Hell, by Ly Y; edited by John S. Driscoll (2000).
• #49, [back and front covers] The 1988 Uprising in Burma, by Dr. Maung Maung (1999)
• #48, [back and front covers] Bugis Navigation, by Gene Ammarell (1999) [xiv + 300 pp; 8 maps, including 4 oversized maps in separate pocket; 23 original illustrations; 15 tables of data; appendix; bibliography of references; index]. Read what a reviewer said about the figures, tables, and maps.
• #47 [back and front covers], Merchants and Migrants: Ethnicity and Trade among Yunnanese chinese in Southeast Asia, by Ann Maxwell Hill (1998)
• #46 [back and front covers] and [sample spread], Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land, and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsula and Borneo, Robert L. Winzeler, ed. (1997)
• #45 [back and front covers] and [sample spread], Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective, Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum, eds. (1996)
• #44 [back and front covers], State Power and Culture in Thailand, E. Paul Durrenberger, ed. (1996)
• #43 [back and front covers], Being Modern in Bali: Image and Change, Adrian Vickers, ed. (1996)
• #42 [back and front covers], To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, by Francis T. Seow (1994)
• #40 [sample spread], Islamic Peasants and the State, by Ken Young (1994)
• #39 [sample spreads], International Commercial Rivalry in Southeast Asia in the Interwar Period, Shinya Sugiyama and Milagros C. Guerrero, eds. (1994)
  

• Transparency: A Path to Public Trust [for print, with PDF version], a booklet produced in 2004 for the Global Environmental Management Group (GEMI) by the Retec Group [client links open in new windows]. [Aesthetics disclaimer: the non-standard typographic and design features of this booklet were requested by the client.]
• Tropical Resources, The Bulletin of the Yale Tropical Resources Institute, front and back cover design, plus layout and production of the complete 2003 edition. View or download the complete PDF version (1.9MB) [all in a separate window].
• ISPS Report, a 24-page newsletter/magazine of the Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies [client link opens in new window]. Its creation is documented as a case study in the Intelligent Solutions section of this site. 

• IJBS.online — a CMS (content management system, specifically, WordPress) website for publishing the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship, directly edited by the editors of the IJBS. MetaGlyifx set up the site in late 2021 and continues to manages technical and server administration.
• Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship — the domain (journalofburmesescholarship.org) and original website of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship. Now archived and redirected to ijbs.online (above), it was built to the latest web standards (CSS3 and HTML5) and responsive to mobile and desktop devices. The site utilized webfonts in English and in Burmese script and was planned to be eventually handed over to Journal administration in Yangon, Burma/Myanmar.
  [View the original archived site.]
• Pig Out — Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Context — a new website (2015) and a new domain (www.pig-out.org) for an international conference on the Pig, held at Yale University in the fall of 2015. It is (of course) built to the latest web standards (CSS3 and HTML5) and responsive to mobile and desktop devices.
• Now offline: Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue — website built for a world conference held at Yale University in September 2013. Visually, the website was a part of the site of the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies site. This site was built to current web standards (CSS3 and HTML5) and was responsive to mobile and desktop devices.
• Now offline: Yale University Program in Agrarian Studies, official website of the Agrarian Studies program. MetaGlyfix designed the Program’s first website in 1998, and in more recent years rebuilt the site to the latest web standards (CSS3 and HTML5). The new design preserved much of the original site’s familiar appearance, but under the hood was leaner and easier to maintain. In fact, site maintenance was turned over to Program staff in 2013. (See also Agrarian Studies cosmetic makeover for an alternate proposed design for the site.)
• Now offline, designed Fall 2009 (for maintenance by client): Personal/professional website of Jacob S. Hacker, Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science and Resident Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, at Yale University
• Now archived: Personal/professional website of Dr. Amity Doolittle, Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies [opens in new window]
• Now offline: TRI, the Tropical Resources Institute, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies — redesign and reconstruction of the TRI website that included reorganizing material, updating links, and reworking the look and the graphics without altering the TRI themes and colors. The site was to be managed by TRi staff.
• Now offline: The Chicken — sitelet for an international conference at Yale University, May 2002
• Now offline: Yale Agrarian Studies graduate seminar website — access was restricted.
• Now offline: Agrarian Studies 2000 Conference — contained information for the general public plus a private, password-protected section for invited conferees only, where they can access official conference materials and download papers
• Las Cruces High School Band Reunion — a tribute to Gregg Randall [opens in new window], 1998

• illustrations for books and journals in the social sciences, such as this simple example or this more artistic chart, both from published books
• illustrations in physics journals
• illustrations from a set for a chemistry text
• Gesamtsystem — original illustration describing Yale’s first integrated online grant and fellowship program [opens in new window]

• Three grayscale maps for scholarly publication, showing the author’s original sketches or sources and the finished maps, including one as published in a journal.
• A grayscale map of Central Kalimantan, prepared for an anthology, in three presentations:
  1. as prepared for proofing by author
  2. as laid out in the printed volume, at 50% scale
  3. as laid out in the printed volume, at full scale
• Three grayscale maps (published 1998) in “before” and “after” versions
  1. Contemporary Northern Thailand [before] and [after]
  2. Caravan Routes, late 19th century [before] and [after]
  3. Sipsongpana and adjacent Tai areas, late 19th century [before] and [after]
     
• A unique rendering of a line drawing/sketch for a dissertation that combines grayscale, patterns, and line drawing, before and after versions
• Four grayscale maps [to be posted sometime, maybe], from the author’s sketches, for The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, by Ben Kiernan, Yale University Press (1995), in before” and after” version 

View full-size PDF versions of stationery to see the typographic detail [PDFs open new window]:

• Yale University Council on Latin American Studies — letterhead
• Personal/professional letterhead and envelope (back and front) for the late Professor Wm. N. Parker 

Thematically related designs and templates for the Tropical Resources Institute (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies):

• logo
• newsletter cover
• poster template

A vector drawing [in new window] for a published scholarly monograph. It came about because of a common circumstance, where an author had a drawing used in the past, AND:

• the drawing needed a few corrections or updates
• text of the original would not be clearly legible at reproduction size
• the drawing was not of a quality that would reproduce to the standards of the new publication, nor was it stylistically compatible with the monograph.

While the original drawing could have been digitally touched up, by far the better and least expensive solution was to make a new vector drawing. This drawing incorporates technical illustration with typography; custom glyphs are incorporated in the font.

Four (of many) sample original graphics to illustrate a corporate report [both open in new windows]

• View the graphics
• View a PDF of the entire report

Generation of a concordance (as an index) from word and phrase lists supplied by the author or from proper names compiled by MetaGlyfix for the Yale University Southeast Asia Studies monograph series (see above) volumes #42 (Francis T. Seow), #46 (Robert L. Winzler), #47 (Ann Maxwell Hill), 48 (Gene Ammarell), and #49 (Maung Maung).

(Note: A concordance by MetaGlyfix can be a helpful basis for compiling an index. In some circumstances, a concordances might even serve as a quick and economical alternative to an index.)