This article first appeared as 'Page didn't start out wanting to be painter' in The Press on 20 January 2015.

The Bensemann family presented many books from Leo Bensemann's library to the Christchurch Art Gallery in 2012.

For all the bad press Walter Buller gets for his activities as a bird stuffer you've got to hand it to him, he pulled one out of the bag with his first edition of A History of the Birds of New Zealand.

While currently curating an exhibition titled Pressed Letters: Fine Printing in New Zealand since 1975, which examines not only beautifully designed hand-printed books but also the collaborative nature that often exists between poets, artists and letterpress printers, I was...

Last chance to view the Holloway Press exhibition at Central Library Peterborough this week so if you are in the neighbourhood and like beautifully printed, designed and hand-crafted books then make sure you head along. 

Once there were three witches flying over the world and looking down on it from their broomsticks. One had white hair, one had black hair, and one had hair like wild bright flame, and all three had gleaming golden eyes.... They were looking for mischief to do.

Quite a lot if you happened to be a graphic designer working in London during the Victorian period as the three examples below highlight.  

An exhibition of book and typographical designs by Max Hailstone is on now at Central Library Peterborough to coincide with the Physics Room project (Graphic) Design School School.

To the newly re-opened Smith's bookshop...