Monumental Shadows: On museums, memory and the making of history is a 320-pages bilingual publication designed by Madrid-based designer Clara Sancho for Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. The publication, co-published by Art Jameel Publishing and Kaph Books in 2023, features new essays, commissioned works and a myriad of provocations to think through some of the most pressing debates around material heritage and museums today.

The combination of various fonts from 29Letters references the mix of contents of the book (from visual contributions and interviews to fiction and essays) and their provocative nature. In addition, the format, colours and design of the cover (hardcover, dark aubergine, content list on the cover) echoes in an subtle way the aesthetics of museum publications while the interior is a dynamic mix of different typographic styles, layouts and papers.

Edited by Art Jameel curators Nora Razian and Lucas Morin, with an intro by Antonia Carver

Contributions by: Pio Abad, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Rand Abdul Jabbar, Nora Al-Badri, Anahi Alviso-Marino , Noah Angell, Haytham El Wardany, Faustin Linyekula, Omar Berrada, Jumana Manna, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marian Pastor Roces, Gala Porras-Kim, Michael Rakowitz, Uzma Z Rizvi, Alya Sebti, Dima Srouji, Akram Zaatari

Poster design by Malak Mohammed, designed as part of her تجــربة [Trial] series. For this series, the Saudi Arabian designer staged the Arabic words for Yes (نعـمـ) and No (لا), set in 29LT Zarid Display.

A series of two posters for a workshop at the German University in Cairo, on which 29 LT Bukra and 29LT Zarid Display are mixed with illustrations in a loud style.

Arabic/Spanish cover

Madrid-based designer Clara Sancho designed a publication for آلهة الحدود | Dioses de la Frontera | Gods of the Frontier, a project by artist Clara Carvajal about the Lebanese society since acquiring independence from the French mandate in the 1940s, up to the outbreak of the civil war in 1975.

For the trilingual publication (Arabic, Spanish, English) the fonts 29LT Riwaya and 29LT Zarid Display were used. A limited edition of 250 copies was printed on Munken Print and Magno Satin and signed by the artist in Madrid in September 2019.

All images belong to the archives of the Arab Image Foundation, the An–Nahar newspaper and the photographer Emile Boulos Divers at their Beirut headquarters.

Bilingual Spanish/Arabic cover using spot-varnished 29LT Zarid Display

Title page with Arabic, Spanish, and English using 29LT Zarid Display

Close-up showing 29LT Riwaya in use