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T Towels
 These “t towels” are made by Susan Fitzgerald of spin spin out of Melbourne, Australia. They feature screen prints of her hand-drawn rendering of various letter Ts, including Garamond, Hoefler, Kevlar, Mrs Eaves and Caslon. She also makes goofy (and cute) alphabet elephants from her hand-printed fabric.
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Papercasting
 My friend Sharon and I always happen upon some sort of papercasting piece whenever we go to an exhibit together, and the Friends of Calligraphy exhibition the other day was no exception (I also wrote about another papercasting we saw here.) And I always think afterward that I should try to find a class, but never get around to it. This time the signage about the papercasting in the show mentioned the teacher Joan Merrell, who has a gallery of work on her website, including this one to the right. She’s teaching a five-day intensive class on calligraphic papercasting in Boston next summer that is seriously tempting!
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To Calendar or Not…
By this time of year I should have finished my calendar design and be in the throes of printing… but this year I’m quite stuck for an idea I like. This quote from Oscar Wilde my friend Cathy sent me sums up my quandary…
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
The calendar to the left is by H N Werkman. I wrote about him here and you can see his calendars here.
An Alphenhorn Blast of Post Gutenbergian Revalorization…
… is that the Kindle? Read Nicholson Baker’s take on the Kindle in this week’s New Yorker to find out. He’s a bit skeptical, to say the least. But “if you’re an author who makes his/her living from books, you have so many reasons to fear, love, despise, and/or at least be profoundly curious about Amazon’s Kindle e-reader.”
I pretty much agree with everything Baker says, especially his critique of the user interface of the device. I’m ultimately disappointed that so few books I want to read are Kindle-ready. I guess I just have to change my reading habits — turns out, according to Baker, “romance readers are major Kindlers” and he quotes a guy who says “The success of the ebook is being fueled by the romance and erotic romance market.”
[Image of an alphorn from here.]
Type Soap
 What would typography soap smell like? This one (as if there are more!) has “got a fresh ‘Crushed Ice’ scent.”
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