Marimekko, With Love

At the Textile Museum of Canada, in Toronto.

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Quite True.

While driving from Dorset to Maynooth, we happened upon a tiny used "bookshop" on highway 60 in Algonquin Park. It was more like a little trailer (a treasure island to me, if you will ;), run by a tiny old lady that was also selling some knitted things. Everything was priced $1 or 50 cents, and there were a whole bunch of old children's books with excellent cover art (one of my very weak spots). I bought a whole pile and threw them into the back seat of the car.

Here is one of them:

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modern letters

uh huh

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Field Trip: The Russian Avant-Garde

Finally got around to seeing the Chagall & The Russian Avant-Garde exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It wasn't spectacular, but there were a few highlights in the show, making it a (mostly) worthwhile visit...

One of my most favourite artists is El Lissitzky, so I was quite excited to see this piece, up close and in real life!


I must confess, seeing it resulted in a lot of smiling (inside and out) and wide-eyed gawking!

And Rodchenko, love love love his work as well:



There was also a separate and smaller exhibit being shown entitled Constructing Utopia: Books and Posters from Revolutionary Russia (1910-1940). This collection definitely contained more of the kind of work I was interested in seeing:

Library Nerd.

When library nerds travel, they take photos of library things. Look at this awesome book truck! @LeedsUniversity

chekhov.

ja die kinder

Don't Say A Word

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so beautiful :)

cottage collection.

some pretty great book covers found amongst our cottage book collection, all of which came with the cottage when we got it. and me, i'm a sucker for good old book cover design, so here they are: