Noor Castellan

No. 4,620, Sunday 8 November 2026

Contents

6 features in this issue, with their folios. Read in order, or turn straight to the department you came for.

Showing 6 projects in Art direction.

  1. Page 4

    Halyard

    A 61-Year-Old Monthly Sheds Five Typefaces and Finds New Readers

    How a Lisbon magazine of ideas and the sea changed everything a reader can see while keeping its press, its paper and its subeditors, in four weeks and without missing an issue.

    Magazine redesign. Halyard Publishing, 2025. Art direction, Editorial design, Type direction.

    Three issues of Halyard side by side on a black field: an orange July cover with a ferry, a cream May cover with a knotted red rope, and a blue December cover with an anchor.

  2. Page 22

    The Salt Library

    Twelve Forgotten Novels, Two Inks Apiece and a Budget of 38 Cents

    A three-person press in Setúbal needed its translated fiction to be seen across a bookshop, at about half the old cost of a jacket.

    Book jacket series. Ostra Press, 2024. Art direction, Book design, Type direction.

    Ten Salt Library jackets in two rows on a flat harbour blue field, each with a bold cut-paper composition in two inks: a table seen from above, a lighthouse beam, washing on a line, salt heaps, a house front, a ringed harbour, a volcano, twelve fish, tide waves, and a net.

  3. Page 40

    Blue Hours

    Five Centuries of Blue, Held to a Single Ink

    A 416-page catalogue of painted tiles for the Museu da Ribeira, where one custom cobalt had to pass for every workshop from 1510 to 1998.

    Museum catalogue. Museu da Ribeira, Lisbon, 2026. Art direction, Book design, Information design.

    Back and front covers of Blue Hours laid flat on deep cobalt. The front is a wall of star-and-cross tiles with blank tiles left where the title sits; the back is all blanks but one.

  4. Page 56

    Seventh Day

    Sunday Section Stops Apologising for Newsprint

    A 42-year-old weekend tabloid, a coldset press at 40 lines an inch, and a staff of three who had to stop being polite about all of it.

    Sunday newspaper supplement. The Northern Ledger, 2024. Art direction, Editorial design, Information design.

    Three Seventh Day section fronts stepped across a black field: a red front showing crossed leeks, a blue front showing a trawler aground on mud, and a yellow front showing a bus on a dark road.

  5. Page 72

    Pith Quarterly

    A Food Magazine Too Poor for Photographs Cuts Its Own Tomatoes

    With no money for a single shoot, an independent Lisbon quarterly built twelve issues on scissors, spot ink and a recipe page you can read from the chopping board.

    Food quarterly. Mesa Comum, 2026. Art direction, Editorial design, Illustration.

    Four Pith covers on a cream field: citrus on pine green, broad beans on pink, tomatoes on yellow, sardines on rust.

  6. Page 90

    Margem

    Eighty-Four Films, Four Rooms and a Programme You Can Read in the Dark

    A river-town festival asked for a pocket book a stranger could use in a queue at night, with a timetable that kept moving until two days before press.

    Film festival programme. Margem, Festival de Cinema de Alvarim, 2025. Art direction, Editorial design, Identity, Information design.

    A hoarding of black and amber Margem posters pasted edge to edge in staggered columns, each with the word MARGEM in very tall letters under a halftone night scene.

  1. Page 108

    Colophon

  2. Page 110

    Letters to the editor

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