Archives for October, 2011
Many Hands Make Light Work: A Family Album Quilt
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Article by J.A. See
W
hen Oakville, Ontario, art quilter
Linda Achen conceived the idea of
a family album quilt decorated
with signatures and sayings of
relatives for...
Psychedelic Poster Art from Vancouver: The Ephemeral Turned Collectible
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Article by Colleen Watson O’Reilly
V
ancouver has a rich history as a
rock and roll city, and few have a
better appreciation for that history
than Rob...
“The Bones of Thought”: Punctuation in Translation
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Article by John Fleming
J
anice Gurney is a contemporary painter whose recent work expresses an apparently binary semiotic in what she has called “punctuation in translation” or...
Bank Note Iconography and the Ornaments of Commerce
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Article by Don McLean
O
ver the course of the next few years, Canadian paper currency will be changing to Canadian plastic currency as the Royal Canadian Mint...
A Wonderful Syncretion: A Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Beaded Orange Lodge Crown
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Article by Christina Bates
F
igures 1 and 2 show a headdress in the shape of a royal crown, decorated with Orange Order symbols executed in Iroquois raised...
The Bite of Metal and the Smell of Ink: The art, craft and design of traditional printing renewed
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Article by Larry ThompsonI
pulled my first letterpress proof–a brief quote from Hamlet composed of hand-set lead type–on Margaret Lock’s Vandercook SP-15 flat-bed proofing press...
Full of Beans and History: The Medalta Bean Pot
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Article by Judy Donnelly
H
istorians have observed that pottery is one of humankind’s oldest manifestations of graphic design. Strong, beautiful, often simple lines and shapes, painted...
Alphabets as Ornament in the Making of Decorated Paper and Objects
Editorial by John Fleming and Marian Bradshaw
In this issue we choose among a multiplicity of examples in which the graphic and the decorative arts intersect, overlap and combine in...