How time flies, 2018 is almost over! Next Sunday, December 9th 2018, we’ll be at the BOUND Book Arts Fair, held at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street in downtown Toronto. That’s just two short blocks north of…
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Kitchener DIY Festival, October 19th, 2018
This is a really last-minute notice, but tomorrow, Saturday October 18th 2018, the Kitchener Public Library will be hosting their fourth annual DIY Festival. This will take place from 1pm to 4pm at the main downtown branch, 85 Queen Street…
BOUND Book Arts Fair, December 9th in Toronto
The BOUND Book Arts Fair will celebrate its first anniversary on Sunday, December 9th 2018 from 11am to 5pm, at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street (near Yonge & Dundas) in Toronto. The fair will be bigger than…
Howard Iron Works Print Expo & Fair
Last Saturday was the inaugural Howard Iron Works Print Expo & Fair, where we had a table selling our paper and second-hand books on topics relating to the book arts. The show was hosted by Howard Iron Works, a restorer…
2018 ATF Conference Wrap-up
Sunday August 26th was the wrap-up day for the conference. In the afternoon there was a barbecue and open house hosted by Patrick Reagh Printers in Sebastopol, about an hour’s drive north of San Francisco. Unfortunately my flight home departed…
2018 ATF Conference—Day One
The first day proper of the 2018 ATF conference consisted of a series of presentations given in the gallery space at Arion Press. The day started off with a continental breakfast, a Welcome and general comments and announcements, then on…
A new book arts fair at the end of September
A new book arts fair has popped up in the Toronto area: the Howard Iron Works Print Expo & Fair on Saturday, September 29th 2018, from 10am to 4pm. This will take place at Howard Iron Works, 800 Westgate Road,…
2018 ATF Conference—Day Zero
Why “Day Zero”? The American Typefounding Fellowship conference proper started on Friday, August 24th, but the day before that had technical sessions, where we got to see how M&H Type run their Monotype Composition casters. I attended the afternoon session,…
Flying Back to Toronto
On my return flight from the ATF conference in San Francisco I spotted two interesting views out of my airplane window (facing South). The first was an interesting landform in Wyoming: The Killpecker Sand Dunes are formed from an old…
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