Young Mowats
From the CBC’s archives, by way of CBC Books, young Farley and Francis Mowat:Add a Comment
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Is Charlie Brown a Good Man?
For several weeks now we’ve been subjected to entertained by rehearsals for You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown here in the Reinventorium, another fringe benefit of having an office colocated with PEI’s...
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375 Bodoni 14 pt.
I’m working on a tiny part of a 2014 Sesquicentennial Public Art Program piece with artist Brenda Whiteway. Ironically, Brenda and I came together by way of Papeterie Saint-Armand in Montreal, where...
View ArticleFiring up the Cruise Ship Boilers
Another cruise ship season starts next week – May 8, 2014 – here in Charlottetown. Over the period from then until November there are 68 scheduled visits by 12 cruise ships.The Charlottetown Seaport...
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The best way to get intimate with a typeface...
Remember that Bodoni 14 pt. that arrived earlier in the week? Well type is useless if you don’t have a holder for it, and so today the solution to that issue arrived: two California job cases from Don...
View ArticleKrisis
You may recall that four years ago I found myself spending 3 weeks sorting type, the result of having purchase 30 pounds of Bodoni 12 point that came to me slightly out of sorts.One of the things I...
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Letter to Canadians
The krisis set aside for the moment, I’ve moved on to setting Jack Layton’s “Letter to Canadians.”Now that the cabinet itself is springing to life I feel the hot breath of urgency on my neck.Next up:...
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Lost in the Barrens
I have never been one of those Canadians wrapped up in the romance of the North. Except that I have been: when I was a kid, Farley Mowat’s Lost in the Barrens was a transformative book for me; I truly...
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From the CBC’s archives, by way of CBC Books, young Farley and Francis Mowat:Farley Mowat | CBC
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Interior Renovations
Next week will be the 15th anniversary of the founding of Reinvented Inc., and the week after that is the 15th anniversary of the ancestor of this blog. For the first 10 years of writing in this space,...
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Flying to Europe with a Service Dog
Catherine, Oliver and I are traveling to Europe in June to attend Ton and Elmine’s mid-summer unconference and do some camping in the Netherlands and northern Germany. And, of course, we’ll be taking...
View ArticleOliver at the Virtual Poetry Summit
I’d been hearing Frances Squire talk about the Virtual Poetry Summit for several years now, mostly in the vein of “gee it would be nice of the technology in Island schools supported this sort of...
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A Week of Dog Guide Fundraising
Over the last six months I have become intimately aware of what a great organization Dog Guides Canada is. From initial application for an autism assistance dog for Oliver a year ago, through our...
View ArticleEverything You Wanted to Know about Iced Tea
It’s 24ºC outside as I write, the warmest it’s been all year. And so it’s a good time to revisit this CBC Mainstreet piece I recorded a decade ago in 2004 about iced tea many years ago with host...
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Droopy Quotes
You may recall my “krisis,” written about here last week, wherein I found myself without any capital K in 12 point Bodini, an important gap as I had to set the name Carl F. Klinck as part of the...
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Ottawa Citizen Redesign
As someone who used to make up the front page of a daily newspaper using bits of paper and wax, I take more than a usual interest in the design of newspaper front pages. And so it was interesting to...
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Charlottetown Guardian Flag, 1919
While we’re on the subject of newspaper design and newspaper flags, get a load of this version of The Guardian’s flag from 1919:(Did you know that those boxes to the left and right of the flag are...
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Tracking my Moves
For six months, between October 2013 and April 2014, I walked around Charlottetown with my iPad in my pack running the Moves location-tracking application in the background. It was, and remains, an...
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Not the New Name of ROW142
It’s an open secret that my colleagues at ROW142 are decamping thirty-nine steps down Richmond Street to occupy the space formerly occupied by Ristorante (and before that, Café) Diem. Which brings to...
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The One Where the Dogs Get Together
Our great benefactors – indeed, the great benefactors of the entire dog guide community – the Lions Clubs across Canada each year organize local Purina Walk for Dog Guides events in their local...
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