For a while now I've been mulling over the hollowness of "You"-- the purported prime mover in the consumer chain. Design your ...

While I gather my thoughts and work on the several posts sitting in the "draft" line I'll put up 3 cards from my Christmas col...

UPDATE Perhaps I should state the following reminder: these posts are my thoughts, not those of typeHigh or my business partner or anyone el...

One might think it a happy coincidence that the Sunday Times reports on the resurgence of letterpress printing just when my friend Doug an...

I think I will make "Highlights" a regular feature here. Inspired by a great found-photo site I came across the other day, Squa...

Almost every Sunday for the past few months I've been at Bowne & Co, Stationers . My friend Doug and I have eagerly spent an absurd ...

My friend Noel and I went up to Demolition Depot , an architectural salvage outfit on 125th and third Avenue. Four stories of remnants – man...

I love diners . They are one of the truly great things in this country. For all my anglophilia, British caffs don't even come close. Th...

Although it hasn't stopped me from planning a trip in February, I've been preoccupied with what I call, somewhat loosely, the end of...

France has initiated a parliamentary bill to make it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide of 1915 and now Turkey is stamping its foot and...

By popular demand (ie. my friend Clay expressed passing interest in the Holcottsville souvenir ) I am posting some more generic landscape po...

My friend Doug and I are making some letterpress notecards (who isn't these days?) and we're looking for something to print and line...

The "Reverend Rollin Heber Neale" and "Unknown Woman in 9 Views" (both c. 1850) are from the magnificent book Young Amer...

I suppose it was inevitable, with this spate of fashion musings, that my attention would return to a topic I ineffectually tried to tackle--...

This Dolce & Gabbana campaign is something I've tried to resist liking but can't--I absolutely love it. It's a loopy mash-u...

I don't have any grand thesis formulated so this post won't lead anywhere significant. If something catches my attention I simply li...

I just now looked up “the tyranny of things”, a somewhat overwrought but appealing phrase that I had seen somewhere a few years ago and file...

Souvenir, according to the dictionary, is something that serves as a reminder: a memento from the French: the act of remembering . What is ...

In rearranging papers last night, I came across this color chart from the English paint company Farrow & Ball ( a section, above ). The...