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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

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Art: Ai Weiwei recreates his impressive Forever Bicycles in Toronto. But bigger

CANADA

Christopher Nunn documents life in Canada's Northwest Territories in his latest work

Photography: S J Emberton captures creepy scenes of modern Canada

Cour d'Appel Montréal (86272275)

Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925

Apollo Movie Projector, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Shirt

Vintage Bowmar Electronic Digital Watch, Red LED Display, Original Band, Assembled In Canada, Circa 1970s (28306723939)

Soviet pocket watch (2)

Soviet pocket watch (1)

Soviet pocket watch

Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR

Specimens of printing types, plain & ornamental, rules, borders, cuts, &c. from the Montreal Type Foundry (39976388073)

Vintage Bowmar Electronic Digital Watch, Red LED Display, Original Band, Assembled In Canada, Circa 1970s (39376235954)

Based between Toronto and Beijing, Meat Studio creates work that bridges cultures

Art: Canadian artist Dominique Pétrin creates some seriously trippy interiors

(East sheet) Map of the Provinces of Upper & Lower Canada with parts of the United States of America &c.

Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City

CANADA: Tu Aire Sensato

(This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet) D.

Montreal's Gabrielle Lamontagne gives us sweet, silly illustration we can't resist

A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union

Alex Blouin shoots petrolheads at Canada’s biggest car show

Text: ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union].

Toronto newspaper digitises the work of 20-year-old reporter Ernest Hemingway

Composite: Upper, Lower Canada; United States &c.

We're blown away by unerring brilliance of Vancouver studio Post Projects

Less Gucci More Gefilte: A guide to Montreal from the perspective of its creative community

Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada

Composite: Lower Canada eastern

30. Рост числа детей в дошколь- ных учреждениях по СССР (1924-1932 rr.).(Growth in the number of children in preschool institutions in the USSR (1924-1932 rr.).)

Position of the U.S.S.R. in the world and in Europe in reference to amount of industrial output in 1913 and 1937

Spectacular new collection from Montreal-based designer Josh Reim

Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia

(This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet) E-F.

Toronto's Tung Studio produce gorgeous abstract maps of their home city

(This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet) E.

Tobias Faisst and Maximilian Virgili take a photographic “blind date” in Canada

Cover: Description topographique du Bas Canada.

Canada: Ice Cream

This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet G-H.

Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”

Gloria Wong’s photography explores identity, the family unit and Canada’s Asian diasporas

U.S.S.R. Europe.

Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig

Québec-based studio GRDN on its contemporary redesign of Montréal's football team

Title page: State Of New York, Canada, &c.

U.S.S.R. U.S.S.R. Western Asia.

Blok rethinks the design of cannabis after its legalisation in Canada

"It looks just the same as when I was a kid": Kristen Dobbin's oddly-timeless images of a Canadian-Estonian summer camp

CANADA, Aries Moross, Random International and more added to line-up for Here 2013, our creative symposium!

Composite: Lower Canada

(This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet) A.

Canada Modern is an archive of modernist graphic design from 1960 to 1985

The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia

Montréal-based studio Wedge is sensitive to details in its brand identities

Religion, race and queerness collide in Vancouver-based photographer Rydel Cerezo's portfolio

Advertising: Canadian studio Vallée-Duhamel produce super-fun series of shorts built around bouncy balls

(This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet) B-C.

Canada.

Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.

(West sheet) Map of the Provinces of Upper & Lower Canada with parts of the United States of America &c.

(This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet) A-B.

U.S.S.R. Central and Eastern Asia.

Composite: Lower Canada western.

(This Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Sheet) F-G.

Check out hyper cool French Canadian design collective, Charmant & Courtois

“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)

1. Участие женщин в выборах горсоветов СССР (1926 1931 г.). (Participation of women in elections 15 city ​​councils of the USSR (1926 1931).)

We meet Popolo Press, Montreal's specialist music printers

Canada. Alaska. Greenland.

Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings

Composite Text: О ВТОРОМ ПЯТИЛЕТНЕМ ПЛАНЕ РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР (1933-1937 гг.).

Contents: ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union].

Graphic Design: Pentagram give new life to a Canadian festival of culture

U.S.A. Indian Tribes. Types of Farming. Canada.

Canadian studio Blok designs beautiful counterculture-themed issue of Wayward Arts

Partie Occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France ou sont les Nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et plusieurs autres Peuples; avec la Louisiane Nouvellement decouverte etc. ...

Covers: ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union].

1. Участие женщин в выборах горсоветов СССР (1926 1931 г.). (Participation of women in elections 15 city councils of the USSR (1926 1931).)