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worked on an interesting project of late—a fasci

worked on an interesting project of late—a fascinating and tragic creative non-fiction book by bernadette rule. it was fun to work directly with the author on something so personal and try to give it physical form.

you can get a copy at : bernadetterule.ca and there’s also a link to a podcast about the book.

from the archives : it looks like st valentine is

from the archives :

it looks like st valentine is beheading himself in the linocut card. it recalls a moment from my distant youth of helping my father and brother in butching the thanksgiving turkey

from the archives : wood type, Goudy Text, Claren

from the archives :

wood type, Goudy Text, Clarendon & Univers. we know neither the lord nor french!

from the archives : i actually got permission to

from the archives :

i actually got permission to use the lyric to t bone burnett’s ‘house of mirrors’ for this one—the last line of the song (‘Eventually, like Napoleon, he attacked Russia’) still makes me chuckle and wonder.

from the archives linocut in weird art nouveau sty

from the archives
linocut in weird art nouveau style

Tschichold’s geometric alphabet cut and ready to

Tschichold’s geometric alphabet cut and ready to assemble (caps only for now)

from the archives

from the archives

it only took a few months to add the last bit of 1

it only took a few months to add the last bit of 18-pt Univers 48, but this is the first self-designed, laser-cut font we made : blindpig fatface. there are still some things to iron out, but we have declared the experiment a quiet success.

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