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.

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    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.

  1. Page 108

    Colophon

  2. Page 110

    Letters to the editor

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