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Even More Unprecedented
I took advantage of having red ink on the press yesterday to prepare a special limited-to-12 edition of the UNPRECEDENTED broadside. This version is on 140 lb. Canson cold press watercolour paper, and...
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The Queen Square Press Logo
One of the aspects I love about letterpress is that, unlike digital design, where anything goes, there are hard limits to what’s possible, given the nature of the process, the typefaces in my...
View ArticleThe Start of Winter
I mark the true start of winter from the date I hurriedly put the last few things from the yard—the garden hose, the wheelbarrow, the deck chairs—into the back shed because it’s about to seriously...
View ArticleOur Friend
Trailer for Our Friend, coming to “theatres” in January. Impossible to watch without crying, at least if you’re, well, me. (via Jason Kottke)
View ArticleRed, Right, Returning
From US Aids to Navigation, from the US Coast Guard:You may have heard the phrase, “Red, Right, Returning.” This expression refers to the fact that when returning (entering a channel from the open sea...
View ArticleSet A Goal. The Island Hymn. Map of Charlottetown.
I added three “classic” items to the Queen Square Press shop this morning:The Island Hymn– a triptych of the lyrics, originally set and printed in 2012 (if you need backing organ, you can find it here,...
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MMXX!
Sometimes you get hit out of the blue with an idea, an idea that cries out for immediate action. That’s what happened with MMXX!, which, over the last 90 minutes, I’ve imagined, set, printed and...
View ArticleMMXX!: The Movie
While I was printing my MMXX! cards last night, I was also filming what I was doing, using my iPhone and a tripod.I’m not an accomplished filmmaker, and know very little of camera angles and visual...
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Jetlag
Remember other continents!? Ten years ago today my crew was en route from Munich to Basel by train, and feeling the jetlag heavy.TravelSwitzerlandGermany
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Oliver Saves Christmas
If you are a character in Oliver’s cinematic universe, you have, no doubt, been the recipient of his strident lobbying on behalf of Christmas, often distilled to its essence: send cards and...
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Step One: Christmas Tree
There’s a Christmas Tree stand at the end of Prince Street in front of Founders’ Hall; mindful of “killer drought combined with Trump election protests and COVID means there might not be enough...
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Four Inches to Spare
“What kind of tree are you looking for?”, asked the jaunty Christmas forester.“Um,” I replied, uncertain of how to respond (evergreen? festive? broad-needled? post-modern?).Sensing that I was out of...
View ArticleNew horizons for office furniture
In New horizons for office furniture, Matt Webb ruminates what we sit on (or swim through) when we Zoom. I spend so much time on Zoom these days, I would prefer to be bobbing around in a salt-water...
View ArticleSo, how's business?
It’s been almost a month since I opened an online shop for my letterpress goods. While I’ve dabbled in Etsy before, I never did it with heart and it was never sustained, so this is my first bona fide...
View ArticleNadja, Tea Merchant
Nadja, who I have known since she was born, and whose mother I have known as long as anyone, has become a tea merchant, producing tea made from sustainably foraged, locally sourced plants.Tea
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Cut your firewood, it will heat you twice
It’s a rare warm autumn today, 13ºC as I write, and so I decided to do my local Queen Square Press deliveries this morning on foot.As a result, I walked more than 7,000 steps before noon:Because my...
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Using Her Marbles
My late friend Laurie Kingston published a book in 2009, Not Done Yet, her tale of being diagnosed with, and living with, metastatic breast cancer. I accidentally found my way to the book on my own,...
View Article“Get As Close To Alex As Possible Without Him Seeing You”
This episode of Taskmaster has a little bit of everything that makes the British TV show hilariously compelling. There are scads of episodes and clips on YouTube for your comedic pleasure....
View ArticleJust Say No
Jeremy Cherfas on turning down work:I learned long ago that doubling the price on a job, only to have the client accept anyway, actually doubles the misery of a job I don’t want to do in the first...
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