The highlight for me was learning to make Arroz Mexicano (Mexican Rice), the basics of which I captured in my sketch book: I ...

Two weeks in, though, we relocated to Guadalajara, and it seemed like there might be a possibility of seeing the homegrown ...

I’m posting from my iPhone SE while travelling—it’s the only device I have with me. It works, albeit in a fiddly way. The ...

This morning’s experience in Guadalajara: immersion in a huge crowd for Les Girafes, opérette animalière, a spectacle from ...

Impronta, in central Guadalajara, Mexico, is the best the gods have ever done: it’s a print shop–publishing house–coffee shop ...

We are nearing the end of our stay in Mexico City’s San Angel neighbourhood, and it’s taken me almost two weeks but I’ve ...

The air compressors at Charlottetown-area gas stations are a dreadful bunch: many of the tire pressure gauges are faulty (or missing), those that charge money for air—a violation of all that is holy, ...

Our Dutch friends, printers Martijn van der Blom and Roy Scholten, have launched a fundraising campaign for a book about printing with LEGO, The Hilversum Method: In 2023 we made our first book, ...

For the past 6 weeks our neighbours have had a crew on site every day working on their complex century-old mansard roof. Being cooperative neighbours, we’ve traded our driveway for their garage so ...

Earlier this year, we prepared a guide for our Home Exchange guests that, among other things, points them to shops and restaurants in the area that we like. When I looked the new address up, and found ...

My education as a letterpress printer was helped greatly by printing coffee bags for ROW142, the coffee shop up the street from the print shop. Our arrangement was simple: I printed the bags, they ...

This is a story about how I designed and printed a postcard that illustrates typographic ligatures. I will mail you one. Lisa and I were browsing the printmaking section of the Mount Allision ...