Neighbourhood Watch: Mount Dennis

Our Manager, Julia, lives in Mount Dennis and recently her local library got a facelift! Enjoy these snaps from her day in the new stacks.

If your bibliophile itch needs a bit more scratching, pick up one of our Toronto Public Library tees made by Shared. 

Design Mondays: Emiliano Ponzi Redesigns Bukowski

Famed graphic designer, Emiliano Ponzi, was recently awarded a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators New York for his Bukowski book covers. If this isn’t tempting your reading itch, we don’t know what will.

Enjoy classic titles from our shelves, here.

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Last minute gift shopping again? We totally get it. To help you curate the perfect gift, our own, Joanne Cheung, has created beautiful collections of our curiosities. Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more this week.

These goodies are perfect for the person in your life who feels at one with nature, wherever they are. Take home all the products below:

1. Douglas Fir Incense, $15
2. Deer Pinecone Ornament, $14
3. Galvanized Antler, $18
4. Dr. Bronners Almond Castille Soap, $18
5. Nature by Alain Ducasse, $45 
6. Pinecone Necklace, $28
7. Morris Kitchen Lemon Syrup, $16
8. Wild Woolie Yellow Finch, $12

Book Club: Damn Good Advice from George Lois

Known as America’s master communicator, George Lois, has risen to advertising stardom. He not only pioneered the creative agency movement in the 60s, he’s also the author of over 5 books, is a founding member of the Art Directors Hall of Fame + continues to lecture. Trust us, you should be taking his advice.

Take home his book today, here.

Bring out your inner book nerd with our Toronto Public Library Tees! Take one home today.

Food For Thought: We Heart Food Rules

We eagerly digest every yummy rule that fills the pages of Michael Pollan’s eater’s manual! With beautiful illustrations by Maira Kalman, we rarely let this book out of sight when doing our weekly grocery shop or planning our next dinner party. Consumption philosophies of how and what to eat make this book a modern foodie’s “how-to” everything.

We Heart Dirty Dancing!

We still hear ourselves spontaneously uttering: Nobody puts Baby in the corner! Who can believe it’s been 25 years since we first watched that epic dance-a-thon. Whether you spent hours practicing all of the dance moves, made your boyfriend try water lifts with you or belted out “Time of Your Life” at karaoke, this book is for you. Keep your memories alive + take one home from our shelves.

We Heart Moleskine!

Moleskine hosted an event in New York City called “Faces” presented by Emilie Baltz. To create the face-sized portrait oval, Emilie used a laser cutter in a few Moleskine Folio notebooks and invited illustrator Cully Long to sketch various situations on their pages. Check out how much fun everyone had creating their very own pop-up book staring their face! Strike a pose.

Shop all Moleskine in store + online.

Two of our favourite design leaders, Grace Bonney + Jonathan Adler, are not only close friends; the pair recently collaborated on a product wish list! Check the list our here and also come to our stores to take home Jonathan Adler designs + Grace Bonney’s book.

Our neighbours, Type Books, have commissioned this video to remind us all about the joy steaming from a real book. Not that we ever need any extra reasons to get reading though! We’re totally mesmerized by this stop motion creativity! Continue your support for the codex- shop all our books here.