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CentreCentre is the imprint founded by British designer Patrick Fry CentreCentre’s founder Patrick Fry has made a practice of turning the most unlikely source material into design publishing treasure. Many graphic designers have a fondness for ephemeral printed matter (see Andy Altmann’s Tat* – Inspirational Graphic Ephemera, p.74-81), but British designer Fry makes books about the markings on building bricks, club entertainers’ posters, computer punch cards, carefully curated rubbis...

Tat* presents the glorious detail of thrown away graphic ephemera A treasure trove for any creative, Andy Altmann’s book is “a visual rollercoaster” through his collection of tat. Words Designer Andy Altmann is a big fan of tat. Throughout his career – notably as one of the founders of Why Not Associates, an agency which closed its doors just before the pandemic – collecting bits and bobs of graphic ephemera has been a consistent part of his practice. In fact, he can trace filing clip...