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Peace Dove Shawl to Benefit Refugees

Until they are all sold, 20% of the profits from the sale of my new “Peace Dove” shawl will be donated to the International Rescue Committee.

The peace shawl dove image is a digital collage from Asian handmade papers. It is digitally printed on fabric in North Carolina in a fiber reactive process. The fabric is a lightweight sheer 70% cotton/30% silk voile. The edges are finished in a rolled serger hem. It is about 36in x 90in. You can wear it as a shawl or as a scarf because the fabric is thin enough to bunch up into a fluffy scarf. It costs $145 plus shipping charges. Payment: you can come to Black Lab and pay me, or I can send you a Paypal invoice so you can purchase online.

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Peace Dove Shawl, profits help support refugees.

(The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. At work in over 40 countries and 25 U.S. cities to restore safety, dignity and hope, the IRC leads the way from harm to home. www.rescue.org)

photo books

New Blurb Edition of as in queen …

as in queen (the abecedarium of a typophiliac) is an alphabet book of the letter Q, a reprint/reworking of a fine press artists’ book I published in 1997. The text is a series of praise poems to this letter. The words form mesostichs (similar to acrostics) in which a word is created by the vertical alignment of other words, in the middle of the text block. The words thus formed are the name of the typeface of the particular Q, in alphabetical order. So the first is Anna and the last is Zapf Book. The text forms a riff on gender and sexual identity since the capital letter Q, rarely used (closeted?), but often strange or ornate, has both female and male elements (the open circle and the protruding bar). The original fine press artists’ book was selected by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) as one of the 50 outstanding examples of book design for the year 1997.

You can order this book online from my Blurb bookstore at this link. Blurb is having a FREE SHIPPING sale until Dec. 31 (free ground shipping in the USA). Use code FREESHIP2015 and order by Dec. 11 for delivery by December 24.

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Image of the flat-open cover design
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The first mesostich, for the letter A, the typeface is Anna.