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Something for the Weekend

August 12, 2011

John Gall’s new cover for the paperback edition of C by Tom McCarthy. It can’t have been easy following this monster of cover. NPR listeners pick their 100 favourite science fiction and fantasy books. On first glance, it looks like a diverse and wide-ranging selection. Downloadable issues of De Stijl from 1917 to 1920. They’re in Dutch of [...]

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Something for the Weekend

June 24, 2011

An interview with Toronto based lettering designer Ian Brignell at The Case and Point: I’m influenced by just about everything, but I especially like the work that was done on packages from the 19th and early 20th century. I also enjoy amateur hand-lettered signs, since they often contain very quirky and original details that I [...]

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Favourite New Books of 2010

December 31, 2010

Ducking in just under the wire, here is my list of favourite of new books of the year. It’s not meant to represent the “best” of 2010. Rather, it’s a completely unscientific, very subjective list of books (arranged in alphabetical order) that I enjoyed. As I mentioned in my previous post, I found compiling the [...]

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A Year in Reading 2010

December 23, 2010

2010 was a year of losing battles and one of the first casualties was time for personal reading. The moments I did have were snatched on the subway and, if I could keep my eyes open, last thing at night. I often found myself unwittingly rereading chapters I had read the previous day, or worse, [...]

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