The House Font, Please

Well, I’m back from a busy week spent mostly out of the studio. Since becoming involved with a graphic designer, and henceforth with graphic design and typography, I have come to notice type everywhere, in all of its manifestations. Street signs. Restaurant menus. Our new Mini Cooper’s owner’s manual. It really is everywhere. In the [...]

The Uppity Canadian

Time to say a few words about a periodical that will forever have a place in my heart — The Upper Canadian. The UC is a bi-monthly antiques trade/collector newspaper (tabloid style) with a Canadian focus. I worked on it in various roles for over 10 years, finishing up as editor about two years ago. [...]

Romancing the Press

The following article was first published in the next to last newsletter from CBBAG (Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists’ Guild). I can’t say precisely because I can’t find it amidst my debris! Anyway, I’ve added CBBAG and a couple of other worthies to my blogroll. Part of the reason for this blog is to track [...]

Not Against Type?

A few words about the title of my blog, ‘Not Against Type.’ Truthfully, I didn’t take much time to think it out, and used pretty much the first thing that came to mind as I set up the site. Since the blog is focused on printing and typography, I thought the word ‘type’ could factor [...]

MINIs and Words

The last couple of days have been a whirlwind, what with the arrival of the MINI on Wednesday, the arrival of the new Mac computer yesterday, and today, a luncheon here at Greyweathers for those hard-working souls who helped us out with our Cirque orders last year. We decided to have it now rather than [...]

The Smile Says It All

The MINI has arrived!

The Spring Line-up

So here’s what’s up and coming from Greyweathers Press over what will likely be the next two or three years:
1) The Seventh Daughter and the Vampire. A signature (or section of pages) for a collaborative project of the Ottawa Press Gang. The Gangsters decided to do a book of faerie tales, so I wrote one [...]

Season’s Greetings

I realize that January 6 is a strange time to be giving the ol’ Christmas hello, but that about sums up my annual efforts to produce a Christmas card. Holly gave up long ago, but I remain plagued by guilt if I neglect the annual tradition of throwing some money at the Post Office. A [...]

A few treasures

The big spring cleaning in the press room yielded some interesting finds, including:
A wood cut map of jolly old London (from a reprint in a 19th century book, I think)
A piece of practice calligraphy Holly did for a painting I remember being on the wall when we first met.
Some more of Holly’s work.
Here’s a [...]

Reorganization

There’s a very big press buried under all that crap.