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Behind the characters.

Sketches, half-finished ideas and the small details we noticed along the way — plus the meaning hidden in each character, if you like knowing that sort of thing.

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Featured essay·May 2026

The craft of miniaturisation: preserving scale in souvenirs.

Reduced scale changes our relationship to monumental architecture. The souvenir, we argue, is not a diminished thing — it is a private monument.

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