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Bank Note Iconography and the Ornaments of Commerce

By Admin Account on October 1, 2011

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Article by Don McLean

ver the course of the next few years, Canadian paper currency will be changing to Canadian plastic currency as the Royal Canadian Mint introduces the next generation of money, printed on plastic laminar. The change will bring two benefits: an increased lifespan for...

A Wonderful Syncretion: A Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Beaded Orange Lodge Crown

By Admin Account on October 1, 2011

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Article by Christina Bates

igures 1 and 2 show a headdress in the shape of a royal crown, decorated with Orange Order symbols executed in Iroquois raised beadwork. A remarkable syncretic object, its form and decoration express both Aboriginal and European ethos. The crown was found in...

The Bite of Metal and the Smell of Ink: The art, craft and design of traditional printing renewed

By Admin Account on October 1, 2011

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Article by Larry Thompson

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 during a workshop in 2003. I seem to recall being rather nervous, and for good reason, having just acquired a...

Full of Beans and History: The Medalta Bean Pot

By Admin Account on October 1, 2011

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Article by Judy Donnelly

istorians have observed that pottery is one of humankind’s oldest manifestations of graphic design. Strong, beautiful, often simple lines and shapes, painted and carved onto pots of all types, have for thousands of years told stories, denoted tribal allegiances and religious beliefs,...

Alphabets as Ornament in the Making of Decorated Paper and Objects

By Admin Account on October 1, 2011

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 surprising ways. The graphic arts are centred upon writing and drawing, most commonly in the sense of linguistic sign systems,...

Fall/Winter 2011 Issue

By Admin Account on October 1, 2011

Editorial – John Fleming and Marian Bradshaw

Full of Beans and History: The Medalta Bean Pot – Judy Donnelly

The Bite of Metal and the Smell of Ink: The Art, Craft and Design of Traditional Printing Renewed – Larry Thompson

A Wonderful Syncretion: A Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Beaded Orange...

neon promises

By Admin Account on April 1, 2011

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Article by James A. Chambers

n 1971 my new bride and I drove from Toronto to British Columbia in a 1967 VW bus. The Trans-Canada cut through the Prairies like a lesson in one-point perspective. At night the white lines disappearing under the van willed my...

the art of warren carther

By Admin Account on April 1, 2011

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Article by Tammy Sutherland

any an auspicious journey has begun with a moment of epiphany, of ‘seeing the light’. Few, however, can claim this to be the case quite literally. Into this elite category falls Warren Carther, an artist whose life-long love of glass was...

the dancing ash

By Admin Account on April 1, 2011

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Article by Mary Ann Steggles

or as long as individuals have been shaping clay into vessels and objects, wood has been used as a fuel for transforming the malleable earth into a durable vessel or sculpture. The earliest objects were fired in shallow pits or...

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