A conversation about forms of inscription

Practising Place provided an opportunity for artist Joanne Lee and typography researcher Paul Wilson to expand upon previous conversations about shared research interests. Their in-conversation event, Forms of Inscription: Surfaces, Patterns and the Typography of Place, examined the relationship between communication, meaning and landscape, through a focus upon ephemera such as 'chewing gum constellations', fly-tipping ites and the noticeboards in working-mens clubs. The following essay presents further reflections on the authors' individual research, which emphasise the importance of curiosity and close looking within their work and acknowledge the existing forms of creativity within everyday places.