Materiality of Writing

Christian Mosbæk Johannessen is Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Southern Denmark.Theo van Leeuwen is Professor of Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark.

• IntroductionChristian Mosbæk Johannessen and Theo van Leeuwen1. The production and perception of handwritten tracesAurelie Lagarrigue and Marieke Longcamp2. Touchlines: Manual Inscription and Haptic PerceptionTim Ingold3. Graphic trace-making as articulated-expressive trajectories of movement: De-textualizing and de-stratifying graphic tracesPaul J. Thibault4. Ink under my nailsBrody L. Neuenschwander5. The European Lettering Institute: Or how being left-handed challenged well established mark making methodologiesLieve Cornil6. The Discipline of Tracing in Architectural DrawingRaymond Lucas7. Contemporary Western Calligraphy: Written Marks as Visible RhythmsKarine Bouchy8. Expressing identity in Microsoft Word: A critical discussion of the stylistic normativity of templates and softwareGunhild Kvåle9. (Ir)regularityChristian Mosbæk Johannessen and Theo van Leeuwen10. Losing to gain: Balancing style and texture in the Starbucks logoGiorgia Aiello11. Traces in Public Spaces. Studying religious signs in social framesAnne Løvland and Pål Repstad12. Calligraphy as Graphically Autonomous Form. A corpus study of Persian calligraphic letterforms using a multimodal approachMahdiyeh Meidani13 Signifying intimate needs in public spacesElise Seip Tønnessen