live?
You know how Radiolab has Radiolab Live and This American Life has The American Life Live?Well, I don’t have David Sedaris nor Neil deGrasse Tyson in my Rolodex, but all the same it occurs to me that...
View Article"A province that is not a province, but an agency of the federal government..."
This CBC television documentary hosted by Linden MacIntyre, shot in 1978 on Prince Edward Island, focuses on the “Development Plan” and especially the “Joint Advisory Board,” a 10-member...
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Nord, Sud, Est, Ouest
Oliver’s French class at Birchwood is studying language for travel – cars, planes, buses and so on – and that includes the language for the directions: north, south, east and west. Why do we travel but...
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ROW142 Coffee Bags
What was Youngfolk & The Kettle Black on Richmond Street is now ROW142 on Richmond Street. I’ve been doing some experimenting with a new coffee bag design: this is just a one-colour experimental...
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A Smaller 142
Started from here, then switched the direction of the type and used a different face for the “142.” I like it – I’m especially proud of the letterspacing in the “142” – but I think I’m going to revert...
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Peeling Sam the Record Man
The building at the north-west corner of University and Kent in downtown Charlottetown has been empty for as long as I can remember. When we first moved here, 20 years ago, it was home to both CFCY and...
View ArticleCamera + Letterpress
The autofocus on my Geeksphone Peak creates an interesting effect when confronted with the cycling of my Golding Jobber № 8 letterpress.Add a Comment
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ROW142 Coffee Bags Printed
Here’s the stack of 75 two-colour ROW142 coffee bags I printed up yesterday. They’re in the shop now, ready for your take-home-a-pound-of-coffee pleasure.Add a Comment
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On the Shelf
I maintain websites that are visited by millions of people every month, but nothing gives me greater creative satisfaction more than seeing my coffee bags filled with coffee for sale on the shelf at...
View Article2014 Charlottetown Area Levee Schedule
Here’s is the draft 2014 levee schedule for January 1, 2014 for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and area. This is the 9th year I’ve been collating and confirming this information; who would have...
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World's Tiniest Christmas Card
After flirting with an elaborate 5” x 6” Christmas card design that went horribly wrong at makeready, I’ve opted for a simpler design. A design that will, I think, end up being the world’s tiniest...
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"Hello, Elevator Phone..."
I was walking through the office of The Guild this afternoon on my way to the basement print shop when I overheard the personable Michelle, Event Liason, mention that the elevator phone had rung...
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Were I to offer you up to advertisers, here's who you are...
I haven’t run any advertising in this space for many years, but that doesn’t stop me from receiving information from Google – stripped of any personally identifying data – about who you in the...
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PEI Interlibrary Loan Form 2.0
A decade ago there was a little web app that allowed patrons of the Provincial Library Service to submit an interlibrary loan request form online. It wasn’t particularly user-friendly, but it was...
View ArticleWanted: Smart, Technology-Literate Educator to Develop a Plan for Education...
The Province of PEI has released a Request for Proposals, with an incredibly tight 9-day window for response (responses are due December 20, 2013), for the development of a “Education K-12 Technology...
View ArticleFree Showing of Minecraft: The Story of Mojang
I’m organizing a free showing of the film Minecraft: The Story of Mojang here at The Guild on December 27, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome, and tickets are free, but you must reserve them in...
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A New PEI Electricity Peak Load
Prince Edward Islanders were using more electricity last Thursday than ever before: the peak load at 5:29 p.m. was 252.70 MW, which is 7.6 MW more than last winter’s peak on January 23, 2013.You may...
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Large Coffee
This week’s letterpress project was large coffee bags for ROW142. These bags, used for wholesale coffee (or for particularly eager retail customers), are about four times larger than the smaller retail...
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