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Tüpokompanii’s approach to type design centres on misreadings, mistakes and meaningful disruptions

Alan Rivera paints a travelogue of Texas that is filled with love

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Sana Bansal’s introspective illustrations absorb you into her wistful world

Publishing without a spine: A new exhibition showcases “the power of print unbound”

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the rise of the designer as influencer

Anna Trench’s football love story Florrie unearths the hidden history of the women’s game

The furniture designers centring Nigerian cultural symbols

Fantasy Island shows Ireland from 70 photographers’ alternative perspectives

Why cult favourite TV show Dr Katz Professional Therapist matters

Francesca Allen measures the worth of hair at a folkloric beauty pageant

Chloe Gaillard imbues typography with historical easter eggs

Comma Type’s CMM Coda epitomises the influence of women in code

The new creative neighbourhoods in Mumbai are preserving cultural heritage, while trying to avoid gentrification

Leeds during Thatcher: An alternative vision of northern coming of age

Adding to the archive: How Dogs and their Dykes is building on queer history

“A pre-internet era of devotion”: The book immortalising the lost art of fan-made record sleeves

Why, in Egypt, creatives are returning to calligraphy in their droves

Josh Greet is reenergising sports photography by injecting it with sci-fi and folk horror visuals

Emi O’Connell retraces her grandmother’s escape from a mother and baby home in Ireland

History on tap: An ode to the design legacy of traditional pubs