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 2 projects in Book design.

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    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.

  2. 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.

  1. Page 108

    Colophon

  2. Page 110

    Letters to the editor

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