Contents

Introduction

CHRISTIAN MOSBÆK JOHANNESSEN AND THEO VAN LEEUWEN

Part I
Writing and Reading

 1 The Production and Perception of Handwritten Traces

AURÉLIE LAGARRIGUE AND MARIEKE LONGCAMP

 2 Touchlines: Manual Inscription and Haptic Perception

TIM INGOLD

 3 Graphic Trace-Making as Articulated-Expressive Trajectories of Movement: De-Textualising and De-Stratifying Graphic Traces

PAUL J. THIBAULT

Part II
Bodies, Tools and Materials

 4 Ink Under My Nails

BRODY L. NEUENSCHWANDER

 5 The European Lettering Institute: Or How Being Left-Handed Challenged Well-Established Mark-Making Methodologies

LIEVE CORNIL

 6 The Discipline of Tracing in Architectural Drawing

RAYMOND LUCAS

 7 Contemporary Western Calligraphy: Written Marks as Visible Rhythms

KARINE BOUCHY

Part III
Manual and Digital Traces

 8 Expressing Identity in Microsoft Word: A Critical Discussion of the Stylistic Normativity of Templates and Software

GUNHILD KVÅLE

 9 (Ir)Regularity

CHRISTIAN MOSBÆK JOHANNESSEN AND THEO VAN LEEUWEN

Part IV
Kinds of Traces

10 Losing to Gain: Balancing Style and Texture in the Starbucks Logo

GIORGIA AIELLO

11 Traces in Public Spaces: Studying Religious Signs in Social Frames

ANNE LØVLAND AND PÅL REPSTAD

12 Calligraphy as Graphically Autonomous Form: A Corpus Study of Persian Calligraphic Letterforms Using a Multimodal Approach

MAHDIYEH MEIDANI

13 Signifying Intimate Needs in Public Spaces

ELISE SEIP TØNNESSEN

Contributors

Index