If I come across a particularly vivid old photograph, especially if it's a New York street scene, I find it thrilling--as though I'...

This isn't an actual photo of my old television, but almost: the rounded corners, the double- decker dials, the on/off/volume knob are ...

No, this is not some vow of self-abnegation. This is some time-honored peevish blogging! 1. deer heads It pains me to say because I'm pa...

I'm experiencing some unfortunate blogger technical difficulties so my 'special New Years post' is not ready for viewing. So he...

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...