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

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