Oct 31, 2022
Earlier this year a tiny Quebec-based children's publishing house, Monsieur Ed, won the prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year in North America at the Bologna Book Fair. It won, judges said, for being at the forefront of innovation in the creative nature of its editorial choices during the past year.
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Oct 24, 2022
Allan Fleming (1929 – 1977) was a Canadian
graphic designer best known for having created the Canadian
National Railway logo, for designing the 1967 book Canada: A
Year of the Land and for "revolutionizing" the look of
scholarly publishing in North America in the 1970s with his work at
University of Toronto Press.
Oct 11, 2022
I first became aware of the graphic
edition of Timothy Snyder's book On
Tyranny during a visit to the National Socialist
Documentation Centre museum in Munich about a year ago (revel in
the backstory here).
I bought and read a copy of the original edition shortly
thereafter. It's a powerful book, full of important,...