the mental mulch pile
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The Beautifull Cassandra
I’ve now been designing books for the Juvenilia Press for over twenty-five years, and it continues to be a high point in my design life. And so I am delighted to share my latest Juvenilia Press project, hot off the presses, The Beautifull Cassandra by Jane Austen, with illustrations and afterwords by Juliet McMaster.
Moonshots: Indigenous Comics, Indigenous Voices
A post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
When is a holiday not a holiday?
So just a heads up to everyone, and with apologies for being a bit of a downer potentially, but I’d never heard of any sort of daughter's day or son's day before this past week, so I did some cursory digging around…
Banned Books Week 2021
A post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
A giant dose of tiny books…
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International Day of Sign Languages
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A parliamentary visualization
Inspired by a Twitter post, I thought I’d try playing around with my own visualization of the breakdown of our Canadian parliament by party affiliation. Here’s one of my early attempts…
Star Trek Day 2021!
A post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
Early Writings by Margaret Atwood
Published and launched in November 2020, Early Writings by Margaret Atwood is the latest Atwood collection from the Juvenilia Press for which I had the opportunity to do the cover and interior design…
Small Press Saturdays: The Juvenilia Press
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Foundations
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Campus during the fall
For my entire life I have considered the University of Alberta to be my second home. I was born on campus, at the University of Alberta hospital… the result of my parents coming to Edmonton to be students here. Ever since my life has been woven with threads of the U of A in so many different ways, throughout my childhood, my youth, and my adulthood…
Video: An Introduction to Altered Books
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Video: The Book as Object, Sculpture, & Performance
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Books as Wall Art: A Practical Guide
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Thing Explainer
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Be…
Realized I hadn't really shared our year-end concert video for Kokopelli Choirs, then got to pondering why…
I have a problem…
A new post over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
Who needs books when…
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A Bookish Memento Mori
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