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C. S. Richardson | Quill and Quire

October 25, 2011

In the first of a new podcast series from Quill and Quire, web editor Sue Carter Flinn talks with C. S. Richardson, vice-president and creative director at Random House Canada, about his 30-year career in book design: Quillcast: C. S. Richardson mp3

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Trip Print Press

October 17, 2011

In this short film, Nicholas Kennedy proprietor of Trip Print Press in Toronto talks about the process of printing with letterpress and running a print shop: (via Tania)

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Whither the Library?

August 3, 2011

Going to the library is one of my earliest memories. I don’t remember much about the books, but I remember the building — its steps and its smell — and I remember the funny pinkish orange library tickets for children. I think I could take out three books at once. I also remember that the [...]

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Backlit | Ingrid Paulson

June 29, 2011

Toronto-based designer Ingrid Paulson has designed these four covers for a new paperback reprint series called ‘Backlit’ to be published by ECW Press this fall. Lovely stuff.

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Moving Pictures

June 8, 2011

Continuing today’s theme of being late to everything, I just finished reading Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen. Published in 2010 by Top Shelf, the book was heralded on a lot of best of the year lists and it’s been sitting in my ‘to read’ pile for months. I’m sorry I waited so long. [...]

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