Issue 207
Summer 2025
£20.00
In this issue: Preserving Indonesia’s visual culture through labels and stickers, Claudia Novreica / Evan Wijaya’s ephemera- inspired design, Claudia Novreica / The new Ikea catalogue is out! (Of everything), Tom Pearce / A working letterpress printer in the Scottish Borders, Jack Conkie / The modest art of the orange wrapper, Allan Popelard Grégory Rezepski / ‘Knowing wrongness’; finding design inspiration in the everyday, Fraser Muggeridge / Collecting type specimens, Jay Rutherford / A final word from the travelling ephemerist, Mrs Pepys
Welcome to the Summer issue Nº 207 of The Ephemerist. It is with much excitement, and a hefty dose of relief that we launched our new website in June – read more about why this matters to us all on p3. As we say on the home page, ‘approaches to ephemera are many and varied’, but we do know that many in our Society are here because of their interest in graphic design. If that is true for you, this is your issue! Graphic designers Wijaya and Muggeridge explain how ephemera provides inspiration in their practice, Conkie gives a glimpse into the rise, fall and rise again of a letterpress print shop on the Scottish Borders, Rutherford takes a dive into type specimens, and Popelard and Rzepsky explore some of the stories behind orange wrapper designs. And finally, I know you will join with me in sending our heartfelt thanks to our dear Mrs Pepys, whose identity has remained a secret for nearly three decades, and now empties her postbag for the final time. The Editor
