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 3 projects in Information design.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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