The Rainbow Room in New York is one of the commercial interiors for which Heitink has furnished custom-veneered panels. (Photo from Heitink website) My favorite instructor, Mr. Williams, always said Anyone can do something right. The real skill is knowing how to fix things that go wrong. Maddeningly, there will always be things that go…
Editor’s Note: Briony Morrow-Cribbs, who illustrated “The Anarchist’s Design Book,” has just completed a run of 50 letterpress prints on the evolution of the expansive bit for a client. As part of the process, she has 50 prints to sell. Read the story about the process below. Details on ordering the print are at the…
The following is excerpted from “Good Work: The Chairmaking Life of John Brown” by Christopher Williams – the first biography of one of the most influential chairmakers and writers of the 20th century: Welshman John Brown. Author Chris Williams spent about a decade with John Brown in Wales, building Welsh chairs and pushing this vernacular…
Are we becoming adjusted to speed? I was talking a few days ago to a factory worker who thinks we are and that men are changing and will go on changing under its influence. “Everybody is working,” he said, referring to husbands and their wives, even children in holiday times. “The pressure is terrific.” Conversely,…
We will have three new sticker designs for sale next week. All three will be available through my daughter Madeline’s etsy store. The 100-percent vinyl stickers are $7 per set, and she ships overseas. The three designs are, as usual, based on random stuff that has been floating through my head while working at the…
Effective immediately, we are now charging shipping on all orders. The cost is about $7 per book and goes up based on weight. Why are we making this change? For the last 32 months we offered free shipping on all orders. And after a detailed financial analysis, we determined that “free shipping” was costing us…
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If my teaching schedule for 2013 doesn’t wreck my marriage or alienate my children, then nothing will. Here’s a list of where I will be teaching in 2013. Note that I don’t control registration at these schools, and I am never sure when each school will open registration (hint: ask the school). I do know…
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I try not to make this blog about personal stuff, but ever since boyhood I’ve tended to fixate on things. It might be an object. It might be a task. But I won’t sleep (literally – ask Lucy) until I scratch that itch. Today it was this three-legged stool. I woke at 3 a.m. (typical)…