Archives for April, 2012
The sense of an ending: The shape of canoes from bow to stern
here’s nothing like being in a room with more than 400 canoes to start you thinking. To walk through the storage facility and galleries of...
Industrial Design: Form, Function, and the Concept Car
rnamentum: Could you talk a bit about the relationship between form...
From Boneshaker to the Pneumatic Tire
like to think that the passion for collecting is rooted in humanity’s prehistory as hunters and gatherers, that it feeds upon our...
“Nose Art” In The Royal Canadian Air Force, 1939-1945
mmortalized in books, movies, and song, the practice of applying illustrative graphics to aircraft during wartime has existed almost since the Wright...
Ship to Shore: Steamers and Hotelware of Muskoka’s Golden Age
his summer the RMS Segwun turns 125. She still sails the Muskoka Lakes, the last reminder of what was once the largest inland...
Of Bikes and Bondo: Doc James’s custom creations
Cummings was known only by his middle name, James. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, he ran a shop, an old-time gas...
The Decorative View of Locomotion
Editorial by John Fleming
The “invention of the wheel, which doesn’t look at all like a leg” (Guillaume Apollinaire), sums up in a few words what is undoubtedly one of...