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“The Bones of Thought”: Punctuation in Translation
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Article by John Fleming
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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
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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
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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
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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...
neon promises
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Article by James A. Chambers
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n 1971 my new bride and I drove from Toronto to British Columbia in a 1967 VW bus. The Trans-Canada cut...
the art of warren carther
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Article by Tammy Sutherland
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any an auspicious journey has begun with a moment of epiphany, of ‘seeing the light’. Few, however, can claim this to...