new!
I am horrified to finally notice that I didn’t blog at all (so far) in the entire month of February. This, then, is to break the spell.
I have acquired new (old) characters for hot stamping! The three old drawers they come in are old and battered and the font names are long-lost. All are bronze, and one is a nice large 24 point sans-serif condensed, with a cocky Q. The others are both 12 point, one serif, one sans. The sans is a nice open gothic, and it is a particularly numerous font in the sense that there are lots of bits of it. The serifed font is lovely, with little flourishes on the serifs. Ok, “flourish” isn’t exactly the right word. The impression given by this one is of something a bit art-nouveau. I will provide visuals. Tomorrow.
Other news -
• Norman Nawrocki’s Breakfast for Anarchists is to be reviewed in Broken Pencil issue 39 (forthcoming). It is available from us for $12 CDN, or from Les Pages Noires.
• I have a massive new display case. Coffin-like, it stretches its nearly 7 foot length in the hallway outside my studio’s front door, in the common hallway. An oak and glass Victorian confection, it stirs my steam-punk soul. I will have to invent a new word for that aesthetic…
