https://www.someoneeditions.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130606044601/http://www.someone.ca/
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
Published
Collection consists of printed materials including chapbooks, books, bound volumes, broadsides, posters, greeting cards, stationery, advertising materials, and other ephemera. The collection spans Deborah Barnett’s career as a designer, printer, and publisher at Dreadnaught Press, Dreadnaught Design, Someone.ca, and Someone Editions.
Chapbooks and production materials Barnett designed and produced as the College Printer at Kelly Library Print Studio are held in a separate collection, which is currently being processed.
Title based on contents of the collection.
Collection has been arranged chronologically by business entity into the following four series:
1. Dreadnaught Press
2. Dreadnaught Design
3. Someone.ca
4. Someone Editions
The collection was acquired by Kelly Library from Deborah Barnett in March 2020.
Further accruals are expected, particularly for Series 4: Someone Editions.
Revised by A. Mociani, March 27 2025.
Dreadnaught Press was a Toronto printing collective and publisher. Dreadnaught Press was established in the mid 1970s with the intention of publishing poetry and excerpted literature using traditional fine press printing techniques. It was founded by Robert MacDonald, Elizabeth Abraham, Deborah Barnett, Ross MacDonald, and David Jang, and was the first incorporated worker co-operative in Canada. The press borrowed its name from *Dreadnaught*, a short-lived underground paper started by Robert MacDonald in the early 1970s, and was originally inspired by a passage from *Finnegan's Wake* by James Joyce.
The collective set up a working pressroom at 24 Sussex Ave., near the University of Toronto campus, where they composed, designed, typeset, and hand-printed materials using traditional letterpress equipment. Dreadnaught Press published the works of many Canadian poets and writers, including Margaret Atwood, A.F. Moritz, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Musgrave, and Jack Hannan, and worked with numerous designers, artists, editors, typesetters, and illustrators. Dreadnaught Press was part of a vibrant local printing community that developed in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto in the 1970s, including neighbouring publishers Coach House Press and House of Anansi. In addition to their own projects, the collective completed commissioned design, typographic and printing work for a range of commercial clients.
Dreadnaught Press briefly expanded with a second shop (NovaDreadnaught) and handmade paper operation in Nova Scotia in the early 1980s, before disbanding altogether as founding members moved on to other endeavours. In the late 1980s, Deborah Barnett relaunched Dreadnaught as Dreadnaught Design, a design and communication firm that shifted primary focus away from hand-printing and took on larger scale projects for commercial clients.
Published
Series consists of chapbooks, books, bound volumes, broadsides, prospectuses, posters, cards, stationery, and ephemera, designed and produced by Dreadnaught Press. The series includes materials published for Dreadnaught Press and design and print work completed for various clients.
Title based on the contents of the series.
Series has been arranged by format and type into the following subseries:
1. Chapbooks & Books
2. Broadsides & Posters
3. Commercial work
4. Promotional materials
Promotional materials and broadsides prepared for specific chapbooks and books have been included in Series 1 at the respective file level and are noted in the file description.
No further accruals are expected.
Additional materials relating to Dreadnaught Press, including financial and administrative files, are held at Library and Archives Canada (LMC-0149).
The Dreadnaught Reference Library, which includes books on graphic design and typography, is housed at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The non-circulating collection was donated to the library in 2016 by Deborah Barnett.
The subseries is not a complete collection of all chapbooks and books produced by Dreadnaught Press, as a small number of titles were not present in the acquisition.
Published
Subseries consists of 22 chapbooks, paperback and hardcover books, bound volumes, and associated promotional materials that were designed, composed, and/or printed by Dreadnaught Press.
Title based on contents of the subseries. File names retain original title case. Where known, authors of the text are supplied in brackets at the file level.
Subseries is arranged chronologically by publication month and year up to File 22; items acquired in a later accession are added afterwards. No date was indicated for the chapbook: The Twa Corbies (File 22).
No further accruals are expected.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook (written by John Sandman and illustrated by Bob Snider) and corresponding prospectus.
The colophon for the chapbook states:
"Designed, composed & printed at
the Dreadnaught press
24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada
between March & November 1974,
in an edition of 250 copies.
The type is Century Nova
& the paper Canadian woodpulp"
Additional copies of the chapbook are available online and in the Special Collections of several libraries, including the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook comprised of an essay by Alkis Kontos, a former Political Science professor at University of Toronto.
Contents page:
"a few copies for private circulation printed at the Dreadnaught press"
The same essay also appears in *Domination: Essays*, a collection of writing edited by A. Kontos and published by University of Toronto Press in 1975.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing "The Art of Bookmaking", an essay by Washington Irving originally published in *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.* (1820).
The colophon states:
"Designed, composed and printed at
THE DREADNAUGHT PRESS
24 Sussex avenue Toronto Canada
in an edition of 200 copies
for private circulation
April 1975.
The type is foundry Bulmer
and the paper Beckett text."
'152 Proverbs adapted to the taste of the day' was first published in 1925.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing a collection of proverbs by French surrealist poets Paul Éluard and Benjamin Péret, and three collages by Chilean visual artist Ludwig Zeller. The proverbs and the chapbook title are repeated in French, English, and Spanish.
The colophon for the chapbook states:
"Designed, composed and printed at the Dreadnaught press, 24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada in May 1975.
The type is Univers and the papers Kilmory text and Rhododendron cover.
200 copies were printed for private circulation by Oasis with 3 collages by Ludwig Zeller."
Artist proof copy (indicated by A/P notation), signed by Ludwig Zeller.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook and accompanying manila envelope. The chapbook contains an essay by German-born academic and Buddhist scholar Herbert Guenther.
The colophon for the chapbook states:
"From MAITREYA edited by Hazel Bercholz,
Samuel Bercholz, and Michael Fagan.
Shambhala Publications, Berkeley & London.
Designed, composed and printed at
THE DREADNAUGHT PRESS
24 Sussex avenue Toronto Canada
in an edition of 250 copies, June 1975."
The envelope has a notation in pen on the front: 'On Spiritual Discipline - 20 -'.
The names provided for the author (dudley doodad) and illustrator (Rudy McToots) were pseudonyms used by Ross MacDonald, one of the founding members of Dreadnaught Press.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook with 8 linocut illustrations. Separate dates are listed for printing the text (summer 1975) and the linocuts (Christmas 1976). Edition of 175 copies.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing 16 poems by Canadian author Norman Poole.
The colophon states:
"designed composed and printed at
the dreadnaught press
24 sussex avenue toronto canada
in an edition of 100 copies
october 1975.
the type if octavian and folio extrabold
and the paper tweedweave."
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing prose and illustrations by Canadian folk musician and poet Bob Snider.
The colophon states:
"designed composed and printed at THE DREADNAUGHT PRESS
24 sussex avenue toronto canada, in an edition of 150 copies december 1975
the type is goudy modern & modern 20 and the paper is curtis rag"
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing 13 poems by Bruce Wilson.
The colophon states:
Designed composed and printed at
the Dreadnaught press
24 Sussex avenue Toronto Canada
in an edition of 100 copies
March 1976
The type is Gill Sans
and the paper Kilmory 1776"
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing a prose poem written by Sarah McCoy, a corresponding prospectus, and 2 pages of illustrations (with 6 images in total) by McCoy's husband, artist Martin Vaughn-James. The same illustrations appear in the chapbook and are featured on the prospectus.
The colophon for the chapbook states:
"Handcomposed
and printed at
The Dreadnaught Press
24 Sussex Avenue
Toronto Canada
500 copies
June 1976
The type is Peignot, the papers
Hopper Opaque
and Mayfair"
Published
File consists of 1 clothbound hardcover edition of *Whale Sound: An Anthology of Poems about Whales and Dolphins*, edited by Greg Gatenby, and 1 corresponding prospectus. The volume is housed in a clothbound clamshell box and printed on hand torn, deckle-edged paper using a flat-bed cylinder press. Illustrations inside the volume were made from zinc and copper engravings. The prospectus notes that all profits from the sale of the anthology will be donated to Greenpeace. This edition is signed by Gatenby.
The colophon for the volume provides further elaboration:
"Published, designed & produced at
Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada, from January to June 1977.
The type is monotype Cochin & Goudy Open;
the text paper handmade in France at the mill of Richard de Bas;
film & engravings for the illustrations by Bomac Batten;
the binding materials Holliston Sailcloth
& paper handmade by the printer.
Of an edition of
100 copies signed by the editor
this is number 66"
The prospectus lists the 56 poets and 30 artists who contributed to the anthology:
**The Poets**
Milton Acorn
Bert Almon
George Amabile
Margaret Atwood
bill bissett
George Bowering
Marilyn Bowering
C.M. Buckaway
Mick Burrs
Ken Cathers
Wayne Clifford
John Robert Colombo
David Day
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Lois Ellis
Robert Finch
Judith Fitzgerald
Pnina Gagnon
Eldon Garnet
Greg Gatenby
Gary Geddes
C.H. Gervais
Artie Gold
Elizabeth Gourlay
Tom Howe
Peter Huston
Marvyne Jenoff
Hans Jewinski
Terry Kelly
Jan Kemp
Travis Lane
Scott Lawrance
Irving Layton
Dorothy Livesay
Gwen MacEwen
Jay MacPherson
Robin Mathews
Seymour Mayne
Steve McCaffery
Kenneth McRobbie
Rona Murray
Susan Musgrave
Richard Outram
P.K. Page
Craig Powell
E.J. Pratt
Janis Rapoport
Joe Rosenblatt
Allan Safarik
Joseph Sherman
Peter Such
Andrew suknaski
Fraser Sutherland
Robert Sward
Tom Wayman
Phyllis Webb
**The Artists**
Erica Abt
Michaele Berman
David Campbell
Robert Daigneault
Ken Danby
Barbara Howard
Robert Jordan
William Kurelek
Les Levine
Naoko Matsubara
Tom McNeely
Betty Mochizuki
Suzanne Mogensen
Frieda Nelson
Toni Onley
Charles Pachter
Walter Redinger
Bill Reid
Joe Rosenthal
Bob Snider
Michael Snow
Ken Stampnick
Shizuye Takashima
Art Thompson
Harold Town
Tony Urquhart
Florence Vale
M. Vaughn-James
Susana Wald
Ludwig Zeller
The volume also includes lithographs, engravings, and drawings of whales and dolphins throughout history.
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing an inaugural address given by Pierre Elliot, Director of Studies, to attendees of the Claymont Third Course in 1978. The chapbook was produced by Dreadnaught Press for the Claymont Society, a spiritual retreat and educational center in Charles Town, West Virginia.
The colophon states:
"Design and produced at Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto Canada
Handset in Cochin and Goudy Light, and handprinted
on Caress text and Strathmore Grandee cover papers
in an edition of 500 copies
June 1978"
Published
The file consists of 1 softcover copy of 16 collected essays by neuroscientist Allan Elliott. The edition includes a foreword by Louis Dudek and an afterword by J. Wendell MacLeod.
The colophon provides further detail:
"Designed and produced at Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto Canada.
Composed in Linotype Granjon and handprinted
on Simpson Lee 100% recycled text and
Mayfair cover papers
in an edition of 250 copies, May 1980."
The Dreadnaught Chapbooks series proposed 6 titles, which were listed on the back of the chapbook; only the first three were completed.
1. *Music and Exile* - A. F. Moritz (poems)
2. *Portmanteaux* - Helen Albright (prose)
3. *For the coming surface* - Jack Hannan (poems)
4. *Magic: the Flesh and Blood of Poetry* - Benjamin Peret (essay)
5. *A Plymouth and Other Poems* - Paul Christensen (poems)
6. *Selected Dreams* - Ludwig Zeller (prose)
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing poems by A. F. Moritz. The chapbook is staple bound and is the first title in a six-part series labelled *Dreadnaught Chapbooks*.
The colophon states:
"Designed and produced at Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
Composed in Linotype Granjon, and handprinted
on Zephyr text and Strathmore Grandee cover papers
in an edition of 200 copies, March 1980."
The back page has an annotation in marker: "117/200" and is signed by A.F. Moritz.
The Dreadnaught Chapbooks series proposed 6 titles, which were listed on the back of the chapbook; only the first three were completed.
1. *Music and Exile* - A. F. Moritz (poems)
2. *Portmanteaux* - Helen Albright (prose)
3. *For the coming surface* - Jack Hannan (poems)
4. *Magic: the Flesh and Blood of Poetry* - Benjamin Peret (essay)
5. *A Plymouth and Other Poems* - Paul Christensen (poems)
6. *Selected Dreams* - Ludwig Zeller (prose)
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing prose by Helen Albright. The chapbook is staple bound and is the second title in a six-part series labelled *Dreadnaught Chapbooks*.
The colophon states:
"Designed and produced at Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto Canada
Composed in Linotype Granjon, and handprinted
on Zephyr text and Strathmore Grandee cover papers
in an edition of 200 copies, May 1980."
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing poems by Jack Hannan. The chapbook is unbound and is the third title in a six-part series labelled *Dreadnaught Chapbooks*.
The colophon provides further printing information:
"Designed and produced at Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto Canada.
Composed in Linotype Granjon, and handprinted
on Zephyr text and Hooper Rotuna cover papers
in an edition of 200 copies, September 1980."
Published
File consists of 1 chapbook containing prose by Helen Albright and multi-coloured illustrations by Deborah Barnett.
The colophon states:
"Designed and produced at Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto Canada
Illustrated by Deborah Barnett
Handset in Monotype Garamont
and handprinted on Monadnock Caress
500 copies, September 1980"
Published
File consists of 1 softcover copy of *New South*, a poetry anthology edited by David Brooks. The book was published by Dreadnaught Press, and distributed by Prism Books. The cover features an illustration by Australian artist Silvana Gardner.
The anthology features works by 23 Australian poets and a foreword by Mark Strand. The poets are listed below in order of appearance:
Robert Adamson
Bruce Beaver
John Blight
R. F. Brissenden
David Brooks
David Campbell
Rosemary Dobson
Christopher Edwards
Alan Gould
Kevin Hart
Gwen Harwood
Geoffrey Lehmann
David Malouf
Les A. Murray
Craig Powell
Jennifer J. Rankin
Kevin Roberts
Judith Rodriguez
Thomas W. Shapcott
Peter Skrzynecki
Andrew Taylor
John Tranter
Fay Zwicky
Rudy McToots is a pseudonym used by Ross MacDonald, a founding member of Dreadnaught Press.
Published
File consists of 1 softcover copy of *Sadness of Spacemen*, a book of prose poems by Canadian poet Robert Priest. The book includes illustrations by Rudy McToots and Ursula Pflug.
The Robert Priest Papers (Manuscript Collection) are held in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Published
File consists of 1 hardcover copy of *Selected Poems of Christina Logan*. The book includes a preface by Wolfgang Schmidt. Title page has cataloguing information written in pencil at top right.
The colophon states:
"Designed and produced at Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto Canada."
Dust jacket shows signs of wear and slight discolouration.
Published in 1981.
ISBN 10: 0919567169
ISBN 13: 9780919567160
Published
File consists of 1 softcover copy of *Testament for Man*, a collection of poems by Mexican poet Gilberto Meza. The poems have been translated from Spanish into English by Theresa Moritz and A. F. Moritz. The book features illustrations by Chilean visual artist Ludwig Zeller.
The final page of the book states:
"Acknowledgements are due to the following magazines, in which many of these translations and/or the original Spanish poems have appeared: *Cuadernos de Occidente*, *The Shore Review*, *The Capilano Review*, *Waves*, *Controversia*, *Excelsior*, *Movimiento*, and *13 Rojo*."
Translated from Scottish
Published
File consists of 1 single fold pamphlet containing the poem *The Twa Corbies*, a Scottish adaptation of an anonymous song.
The back page states:
"Hand-set in Poliphilus type
from the collection of Massey College
Published and printed by Nelson Adams
at the Dreadnaught press
24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada"
Dreadnaught Press was a Toronto printing collective and publisher. Dreadnaught Press was established in the mid 1970s with the intention of publishing poetry and excerpted literature using traditional fine press printing techniques. It was founded by Robert MacDonald, Elizabeth Abraham, Deborah Barnett, Ross MacDonald, and David Jang, and was the first incorporated worker co-operative in Canada. The press borrowed its name from *Dreadnaught*, a short-lived underground paper started by Robert MacDonald in the early 1970s, and was originally inspired by a passage from *Finnegan's Wake* by James Joyce.
The collective set up a working pressroom at 24 Sussex Ave., near the University of Toronto campus, where they composed, designed, typeset, and hand-printed materials using traditional letterpress equipment. Dreadnaught Press published the works of many Canadian poets and writers, including Margaret Atwood, A.F. Moritz, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Musgrave, and Jack Hannan, and worked with numerous designers, artists, editors, typesetters, and illustrators. Dreadnaught Press was part of a vibrant local printing community that developed in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto in the 1970s, including neighbouring publishers Coach House Press and House of Anansi. In addition to their own projects, the collective completed commissioned design, typographic and printing work for a range of commercial clients.
Dreadnaught Press briefly expanded with a second shop (NovaDreadnaught) and handmade paper operation in Nova Scotia in the early 1980s, before disbanding altogether as founding members moved on to other endeavours. In the late 1980s, Deborah Barnett relaunched Dreadnaught as Dreadnaught Design, a design and communication firm that shifted primary focus away from hand-printing and took on larger scale projects for commercial clients.
Published
A collaborative fine print publication showcasing the work of multiple private presses, including Dreadnaught Press and its contemporaries. A tool to contextualize some of Dreadnaught’s work/situate it within the larger culture of late 1980s print in Ontario.
This artist's book incorporates various weights and styles of handmade paper, which are all aging differently. It contains some folded leaves, rendering it vulnerable to ripping; therefore, must be handled with care.
Limited dates of creation are available for the broadsides and posters. Dates have been noted when provided.
Dreadnaught Press was a Toronto printing collective and publisher. Dreadnaught Press was established in the mid 1970s with the intention of publishing poetry and excerpted literature using traditional fine press printing techniques. It was founded by Robert MacDonald, Elizabeth Abraham, Deborah Barnett, Ross MacDonald, and David Jang, and was the first incorporated worker co-operative in Canada. The press borrowed its name from *Dreadnaught*, a short-lived underground paper started by Robert MacDonald in the early 1970s, and was originally inspired by a passage from *Finnegan's Wake* by James Joyce.
The collective set up a working pressroom at 24 Sussex Ave., near the University of Toronto campus, where they composed, designed, typeset, and hand-printed materials using traditional letterpress equipment. Dreadnaught Press published the works of many Canadian poets and writers, including Margaret Atwood, A.F. Moritz, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Musgrave, and Jack Hannan, and worked with numerous designers, artists, editors, typesetters, and illustrators. Dreadnaught Press was part of a vibrant local printing community that developed in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto in the 1970s, including neighbouring publishers Coach House Press and House of Anansi. In addition to their own projects, the collective completed commissioned design, typographic and printing work for a range of commercial clients.
Dreadnaught Press briefly expanded with a second shop (NovaDreadnaught) and handmade paper operation in Nova Scotia in the early 1980s, before disbanding altogether as founding members moved on to other endeavours. In the late 1980s, Deborah Barnett relaunched Dreadnaught as Dreadnaught Design, a design and communication firm that shifted primary focus away from hand-printing and took on larger scale projects for commercial clients.
Published
Subseries consists of 121 broadsides and posters that were designed, hand-set, and hand-printed by Dreadnaught Press. In addition to producing chapbooks (see Subseries 1), the Dreadnaught broadsides were a core part of the Press' publishing focus and demonstrate a range of letterpress techniques. The collective produced these materials for poems, images, ideas, and passages that personally resonated with its members. These prints are distinguished by the notation 'Dreadnaught Broadside', which appears somewhere on the page.
Over 90 different poems, passages, and quotations are featured in the subseries, and the majority of prints are single copies. The subseries also includes the *52 Pickup 76* poetry collection, which brought together 52 poems from 52 emerging poets (see File 1).
Title based on contents of the subseries. File names retain original title case. Where known, authors of the text are supplied in brackets at the file-level.
Subseries has been arranged alphabetically and for the most part maintains the original ordering of the materials as they were catalogued during the acquisition process.
No further accruals are expected.
A selection of Dreadnaught broadsides are housed at Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library as part of the Coach House Press Papers (Manuscript Collection: CA OTUTF MS COLL 00620).
Additional description of *52 Pickup 76* at [Someone.ca](http://www.someone.ca/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=11&Itemid=74) (see below):
"Each week in 1976, one of the broadsides was to be printed; each of 52 poems by the day’s young authors was to benefit from an original design layout, employing illustrations, paper, ink colours, typefaces and treatments gathered together specifically to expand and further the message and attitude of the writing."
Published
File consists of 1 complete box set of *52 Pickup 76* and 26 display copies of broadsides featured in the series. The loose broadsides, likely part of an incomplete exhibition set, range in size and are unfolded.
The *52 Pickup 76* collection features 52 poems by 52 emerging poets, printed on flat or uniformly folded broadsides using a variety of typefaces and coloured paper. The box set includes a title page, colophon, specification sheet, and afterword by editor Greg Gatenby. The specification sheet notes that the paper for the box was made from blue jeans. The box set is #96 of an edition of 100 copies, and is signed and numbered by Gatenby.
A complete list of the poems and poets in numbered sequence appears below. Items in bold have a duplicate stand-alone broadside present in the collection.
1 Robert MacDonald: *rhetorical lament*
2 Edward Strickland: *Worksheet*
3 __ Jan Bartley: *Magic*__
4 Terry Kelly: *Madelaine and the Mysteries of the Flesh*
5 Judith Fitzgerald: *Octave*
6 Timothy Shay: *lament*
7 __ Ed Jewinski: *recurrence and an empty chair*__
8 Cecilie Jones: *Rondania*
9 __ Susan Musgrave: *Between Friends*__
10 Greg Gatenby: *Auburn Photograph*
11 Pier Giorgio DiCicco: *America*
12 Karsten Kossman: *The Carriers of Umbrellas and Pockets*
13 __ Judi Hurst: *Lovers and Linguists*__
14 __ Ludwig Zeller: *Captain Cook's Last Refuge*__
15 __ Fraser Sutherland: *Madwomen*__
16 __ Ian Young: *Alamo*__
17 __ Tim Inkster: *The Bestiary: Mule*__
18 __ Gwendolyn MacEwen: *The Lion*__
19 George Bowering: *Daniel Johnston Lying in State*
20 __ David Berry: *An Eclipse of the Moon*__
21 John Robert Columbo: *What I Am*
22 __ Tom Wayman: *Transport*__
23 Hans Jewinski: *Encyclopedia Salesman, March 16, 1971*
24 __ John Oughton: *Zero Aperture, Photographer*__
25 __ Joe Rosenblatt: *Into the Soups of Rivers*__
26 Artie Gold: *Old Road Poem Song*
27 __ Margaret Atwood: *Marsh, Hawk*__
28 Irving Layton: *Catacombe Dei Cappucini*
29 Dorothy Livesay: *Collared*
30 Robin Skelton: *Hypothesis*
31 __ Pat Lane: untitled__
32 J.D. Carpenter: *The Letting Go*
33 Jan Kemp: *Mystics Mild:Song*
34 Victor Coleman: *Disengagement Ritual*
35 __ Alden Nowlan: *The Departure*__
36 David Day: *Night Passage*
37 __ Ralph Gustafson: *Of Beds and Manuscripts*__
38 __ Robert Finch: *The Autumn Leaves*__
39 Andrew Suknaski: *Almighty Voice*
40 George Faludy: *Death of a Chleuch Dancer*
41 __ Eugene McNamara: *what have you forgotten*__
42 C.H. Gervais: *His Laughter*
43 __ Gail Fox: *The Creators*__
44 __ Fred Cogswell: *Quality*__
45 Gwen Hauser: *So What Else is Old*
46 __ Len Gasparini: *Toronto Nocturne*__
47 __ David Brooks: *The Fields of Becoming*__
48 Lorraine Vernon: *Spire*
49 Albert Frank Moritz: *On Farming*
50 __ James Reaney: *The Whistle*__
51 __ Jeni Couzyn: *Spell to Cure Barreness*__
52 __ Steve McCaffery: *Novel 7*__
The text is excerpted from Murray's book *The Scottish Himalayan Expedition*, published in 1951.
Published
File consists of 2 broadsides of "Action Guide", written by Scottish mountaineer and writer W. H. Murray. The broadsides are two different sizes and in two different colours (red and yellow) . Both prints are labelled 'Dreadnaught Broadside' at the bottom.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside featuring a short quotation from A. R. Orage.
Published
File consists of 1 multifold broadside with a quotation attributed to Pythagoras that reads: "A thought is like an idea in transit". 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed above the quotation.
Deep creases along fold lines. Slight discolouration on outside fold.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Burton Raffel. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed below the poem.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside of Buddhist axioms with no attribution. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed in the middle of the broadside.
Chuang Tsu, Chuang-tzu, and Zhuangzi are alternate names that refer to Zhuang Zhou, a Chinese philosopher.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with an excerpted passage from the homonymous text *Chuang Tsu* or *Nan-Hua Chen Ching* (by Chuang Tsu), translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the bottom of the passage.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside of a short poem, *De Cœnatione Micæ* by Roman poet Martial, "translated from the Latin by R L Stevenson".
'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed above the poem title.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with a recipe for 'Easy Street Soup'. No attribution is listed for the recipe.
'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed below the recipe.
Copyright notice at the bottom states that the poem was previously published in 1925 and 1953, and is "reprinted by permission of New Directions".
Published
File consists of 1 four-colour poster of the poem *Eurydice* by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) on deckle edge paper.
The poster was produced by NovaPrints and states at the bottom:
"Designed, composed and handprinted on specialty handmade paper at NovaDreadnaught
Bear River, Nova Scotia Canada, in an edition limited to 250 copies
Spring 1979"
Published
File consists of 1 broadside of a poem by Alfred Jarry, translated by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed above the title.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with an excepted passage from *About Alphabets*, a book on type design by Hermann Zapf. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the bottom of the page.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with excerpted passage from *The Urantia Book*, authorship unknown. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed below the text.
The text is excerpted from Gurdjieff's unstaged ballet *The Struggle of the Magicians*.
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File consists of 1 broadside with a short passage by "Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff" (sic). 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed along the left side.
The poem's translated title also appears elsewhere as "Golden Voices".
Published
File consists of 1 broadside of a poem by Gérard de Nerval, translated by Geoffrey Wagner. A quotation under the title states: "Everything is sentient. Pythagoras". The broadside is printed on deckle edge paper and 'Dreadnaught Broadside' appears at the bottom of the page.
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File consists of 1 broadside of a translated Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poem:
The broadside states:
"translation by Karsten Kossman
of 'Wilkommen und Abschied', best known and
most popular of the Sesenheim lyrics, 1771."
The print is labelled 'Dreadnaught Broadside' at the top of the page.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside of poem by Robert Browning. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed underneath the title.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and a linocut illustration of a yellow sun in the middle of the page. The print is labelled 'Dreadnaught Broadside'.
Elsewhere, the poem is titled "If I Should Die". It appears in the collection *Ben King's Verse* (1894).
Ben King was one of the publishing names used by Benjamin Franklin King Jr., an American poet and essayist.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with a poem by Ben King.
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File consists of 1 broadside with poem by E. E. Cummings (stylized as E E Cummings). 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the bottom of the page.
The passage from Standard appears in Hermann Zapf's type design book *Manuale Typographicum*.
Published
File consists of 1 bookmark that reads:
"In a world grown noisy and clamorous, reading remains among the very few quiet pleasures left to man. Paul Standard"
*Meetings with Poets: Memories of Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell, Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara* was originally published in 1968.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with an excerpted passage from a book by poet and writer Jack Lindsay. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' appears at the bottom of the page.
Poem was originally published in *The Unknown Eros and Other Poems* (1877), a collection of poetry by Coventry Patmore.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside of poem by Coventry Patmore. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed below the title.
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File consists of 1 broadside with a poem by Radovan Ivšić. Poem is printed in French. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed above the title.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with poem by William Blake.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with poem by Timothy Leary. 'Jail Notes - 22 April 1970' is printed below Leary's name. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed towards the bottom of the page.
A variant spelling of Ursula K. Le Guin, and a variant title for *A Wizard of Earthsea* (1968) appear on the broadside.
Published
File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with excerpted passage attributed to Ursula K. LeGuin. "The Song of Ea from *The Wizard of Earthsea*" is printed below the passage.
The poem often appears stylized as "Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin".
Li Po is a romanized version of Li Bai, a Chinese poet who lived during the 8th century.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with a poem "by Ribaku or Li-Po translated by Ezra Pound".
'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed below the poem.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with poem by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the bottom.
Text is a quote by E. E. Cummings.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with the following quotation in purple ink:
"seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth us here"
There is no additional text on the print.
Published
File consists of 1 two-colour broadside. The text is an excerpt attributed to Mahamahopadhyaya Gopinath Kaviraj "about Anandamayee Ma".
'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed in the middle of the text.
The sonnet was originally published in Poems (1881), a collection of poetry by Wilde.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside featuring a sonnet by Oscar Wilde. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed underneath the poem.
The sonnet was originally published in 1818 in the *The Examiner of London*.
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File consists of 1 broadside featuring a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the top of the page.
The poem was originally published in 1937. The poem also appears in *Shapes and Sounds* (1941), a collection of poems by Peake.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside featuring a poem by English author and illustrator Mervyn Peake. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed underneath the poem.
The poem (titled "Le Cancre" in French) was originally published in *Paroles* (1945), a collection of poems by Prévert.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside featuring a poem by Jacques Prévert and "translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti".
'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed above the poem's title.
"The Rise and Fall of Nature" was originally published in December 1977 in *Journal of Communication* 27(4).
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File consists of 1 folded, three-colour broadside with writing by Marshall McLuhan. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the bottom right of the page.
Deep crease from folding. Some foxing is present at the top of the inside page.
An original broadside of 'The Rise and Fall of Nature' is also present in the Marshall McLuhan Collection held at Kelly Library (CA ON00389 C6-327).
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File consists of 2 identical copies of a poster on deckle-edged paper created by Dreadnaught Press. In the center of the poster, text describes the acquisition of the Sibylline books by King Tarquin in ancient Rome. The text box is surrounded by multi-colour illustrations by Chilean artist Ludwig Zeller. No author is attributed for the text.
Printing specifications are stated at the bottom of the poster:
"Printed 13 colour letterpress by hand from zinc engravings of paper cutouts by Luwdig Zeller.
The type is handset Joanna and the paper mouldmade BFK Rives. An edition of 260 copies was printed January 1981 for friends of Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue, Toronto Canada"
The poem was originally published in *Poems, in Two Volumes* (1807), a collection of poems by Wordsworth.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with a poem by William Wordsworth. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the bottom of the poem.
*The Holy State and the Profane State* was originally published in 1642.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside featuring an excerpted passage from *The Holy State and the Profane State* by English historian and clergyman Thomas Fuller.
Published
File consists of 1 broadside with the text: "TO HAVE FRIENDS, BE ONE".
'Dreadnaught Broadside' appears on the print.
The poem was originally published in *Jacob's Ladder* (1961), a collection of poetry by Levertov.
Published
File consists of 1 two-colour broadside with a poem by Denise Levertov.
This poem appears elsewhere under the title 'Prayer to the Great Spirit'. Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark translated several Sioux prayers into English in the late 19th century, and may be the translator but not the original author of this poem.
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File consists of 1 two-colour broadside titled: "Sioux Prayer" and attributed to (Chief) Yellow Lark. 'Dreadnaught Broadside' is printed at the bottom of the page.
Published
Title based on contents of the series.
Subseries consists of event posters, invitations, announcement notices, business cards, occasion cards, and stationery produced and designed by Dreadnaught Press for a variety of clients.
Subseries is divided into the following files:
1. Hart House Art Committee
2. Royal Ontario Museum
3. An Invisible Book
4. Smaller printing projects and ephemera
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File consists of 10 invitations printed for the Hart House Art Committee to promote exhibitions held at the Hart House Art Gallery, and an envelope titled 'Permanent job archive for Hart House'. An inventory of completed work with dates and print runs is handwritten in pen and pencil on the outside of the envelope.
Envelope has significant water damage at the bottom. Invitations are in good condition.
File does not contain the artist prints.
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File consists of 1 hardcover, clothbound book commissioned by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) as a companion piece to a portfolio series titled *A Tribute to the Royal Ontario Museum*. The book was designed by Dreadnaught Press and published by Gnomon Publishing Limited & Company.
The book provides an introduction by art critic Kay Kritzwiser to a portfolio of artist prints and print records. The portfolio was created to recognize the ROM Renovation and Expansion Fund Campaign and features six original prints by six Canadian artists: Abraham Anghik, Ron Bolt, Tom Forrestall, Rita Letendre, Kenneth Lochhead, and Louis de Niverville. The print records are signed in pencil by the artists and printers.
The colophon provides additional printing details, under 'Technical Information':
"The box, portfolio and book
were designed, handset and handbound
at Dreadnaught, 24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada,
using the following materials:
Types: Trump Medieval and Bembo
Paper: BFK Rives Cuve and Strathmore Americana
Cloth: Holliston Sail Cloth
The papers used for the prints were
Arches Velin 250 gram and BFK Rives Cuve 250 gram.
These six original prints were completed by the six artists in 1979
in numbered editions of 150.
15 Artist's proofs have been reserved for the publisher
and 6 Special Artist's proofs have been reserved for the artists.
This is number
66/150"
Published
File consists of stationary designed and printed by Dreadnaught Press for An Invisible Book, an imprint of BGMRW Holdings Inc.
File list:
2 business cards (1 for Ian Brown, 1 for Ian Wiseman)
1 Christmas card (blank)
1 piece of company letterhead
1 mailing envelope
Published
File consists of 12 event posters, invitations, and announcement notices; 7 business cards, 1 Christmas card, and 1 thank you card.
The materials were designed and produced by Dreadnaught Press for clients that included Cannon Book Distribution Ltd., McMaster University, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Other Press, the University of Toronto, Metro Toronto News, and private individuals. The majority of these materials are one-off items for each respective client, with the exception of multiple items produced for Cannon Book Distribution Ltd. and McMaster University.
Event posters promote exhibitions by artists William Ronald, Elaine Goble, Vanessa Herman, Jan Willson, Llewellyn Xavier, and Andrew James Smith.
Published
Subseries consists of 1 piece of letterhead for Deborah Barnett and 1 illustrated card promoting Dreadnaught Press' printing and typographic services.
Published
Series consists of books designed by Dreadnaught Design, as well as promotional materials and commercial work created by the company, including greeting cards, invitations, stationery, mailings, and posters.
Title based on the contents of the series.
Series has been arranged by type into the following subseries:
1. Commercial work
2. Promotional materials
3. Books
Further accruals expected.
Revised by A Mociani, 3 April 2026.
File contains a small number of samples of commercial work and is not representative of the scope of Dreadnaught Design's commercial output, which included large-scale design and printing projects completed for Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada, among others.
Published
Subseries consists of samples of commercial work completed by Dreadnaught Design:
* 1 slide-rule retirement savings calculator (in French) for Fidelity Investments Canada
* 1 direct mail fundraising card (with stamped envelope) for Necessary Angel theatre group
* 1 business card for Stephen Brown Handmade Jewellery
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No dates are provided for any of the items.
The prospectus "Only in Darkness the Light" distinguishes between the focus of the original Dreadnaught Press and Dreadnaught Design, stating:
"Today, Dreadnaught is rarely engaged in the practise of hand-printing worthy excerpts from traditional literature and new works from beginning poets. Dreadnaught is now a full-service design and communications firm."
Published
Subseries consists of:
- 1 prospectus (n.d.) titled "Only in Darkness the Light" announcing the launch of Dreadnaught Design
- 1 poster announcing a call for submissions of materials for a collection titled "Songs & Stories" (with printing scheduled for completion by June 1990)
- 1 invitation (with backing paper and stamped envelope) to a 1994 thanksgiving celebration hosted by Dreadnaught Design
- 2 pieces of Dreadnaught Design stationery
- 3 holiday cards (one is signed by members of the Dreadnaught Design team)
- 1 card with manila envelope promoting Smashing Type, a website celebrating letterform art, printed in January 2000 (#133 of an edition of 250 copies)
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[Someone.ca](https://someone.ca/)
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Series consists of broadsides, posters, greeting cards, postcards, promotional material, and one chapbook designed by Deborah Barnett and produced at Someone.ca.
Title based on the contents of the series.
Series arranged by format and type into the following 4 subseries:
1. Chapbooks & Books
2. Broadsides & Posters
3. Cards & Postcards
4. Promotional material
Published
Subseries consists of 1 chapbook designed and printed by Someone.ca.
Title based on contents of the subseries.
Where known, authors of the text are supplied in brackets at the file level.
Published
File consists of 1 copy of Mukahanga A Beginner's Manual written and illustrated by Canadian artist Elizabeth Forrest. The chapbook provides an introduction into the art of Mukahanga, or Japanese woodblock printmaking. The text was handwritten in pen by Forrest. The chapbook was designed and printed by Deborah Barnett.
The chapbook includes an inscription from Forrest to Barnett:
"Deborah
Working with you has been always a pleasure, not to mention fun! and even educational !!! Thank you for your generous time and wisdom in putting together this book.
xxx
elizabeth"
The back page of the chapbook is signed by Forrest. There is a notation that contextualizes this copy as #25 of an edition of 25 copies.
Updated by A Mociani 10 April 2026
Published
Subseries consists of 14 letterpress printed broadsides and posters produced by Someone.ca.
Title based on contents of the subseries.
Subseries is arranged chronologically. Where known, authors of the text are supplied in brackets at the file level.
The series was commissioned by Someone.ca for the 2008 installment of Nuit Blanche in Toronto.
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File consists of 1 copy of *Opposites attract*, a limited edition series of original illustrations by Seth Scriver. The series consists of 7 broadsides on multi-coloured paper collected together in a paper enclosure. The illustrations were printed by Someone.ca using photopolymer plates and hand set type.
Slight discolouration on front and back of enclosure.
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File consists of 1 two-colour letterpress poster promoting *Foster Child Play* at the 2010 SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto.
Published
File consists of 1 three-colour letterpress poster titled "3 Years" with passages from rob mclennan and Nathaniel G. Moore.
The poster states:
"50 copies designed and printed by hand at Someone.ca
to commemorate the third anniversary of
Canadian Literature's only full-contact literary reading:
Throwdown in O-Town 26 June 2008, Ottawa,
a poetry career ending contest between:
rob mclennan
Nathaniel G. Moore"
Published
File consists of 1 three-colour broadside with a traditional poem titled "Love".
The broadside states:
"handprinted at someone.ca in an edition of 52 numbered copies
February 2011"
Pencil notation at the bottom right denotes this broadside is #7 of 52.
Published
File consists of 1 three-colour letterpress poster with the word "heart" and a pink and red graphic, printed on deckle-edged paper.
The bottom of the poster states:
"Hand composed and printed with love at someone.ca in Toronto Canada 2011"
File title is taken from the description of the poster provided on [Someone.ca](http://someone.ca/index2.php?page=shop.product_details&product_id=69&flypage=flypage.tpl&pop=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&pop=1&tmpl=component).
Published
File consists of a two-colour letterpress concert poster for Canadian jazz musician Laila Biali. The poster features a B&W photograph of Biali and is printed on deckle-edged paper.
Credits provided on the poster:
Print and design: Someone.ca
Photo: Edith Maybin
Published
File consists of 1 two-colour letterpress commemorative poster with a quote from Marshall McLuhan: "The role of obsolescence is sparking creativity and the invention of new order". The poster is printed on deckle-edged paper and signed by Eric McLuhan.
The poster states:
"Designed and produced in a limited edition in 2011 to celebrate Marshall McLuhan on the 100th anniversary of his birth
McLuhan Legacy Network
Someone.ca"
Pencil notation at the bottom of the print denotes that this copy is #7 in an edition of 25.
Published
File consists of 1 print with the following text:
"HAPſY
BIRTDΛZ
SOMEὉNF
G'LUCK!
X&W' "
The print was likely made using a woodblock printing process and features typographic juxtaposition, where some of the expected block letters have been replaced, transposed, or reversed. The text is one colour with a faint gradient.
With the exception of one item, all greeting cards have an accompanying envelope.
Published
Subseries consists of a selection of blank, undated greeting cards and postcards designed and printed by Someone.ca. The assortment includes holiday, thank you, birthday, and Valentine's Day cards, in addition to a set of "Bold & Beautiful" cards produced for client Urbanproduct.
Printing specifications are included on some of the items.
Per [Someone.ca](http://www.someone.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=43&Itemid=67&limitstart=20), the bowtie was designed by Tania Janthur, contest winner of Someone.ca's Spring 2013 DRESSUP! promotion. 50 copies of the winning design were produced for the 2013 installment of Dundas West Fest.
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Subseries consists of promotional materials produced using letterpress equipment by Someone.ca:
- 1 invitation to a studio farewell party (September 10th, 2000) and announcement of move to 1691 Dundas Street West
- 1 clip-on paper bowtie
- 1 promotional card with QR code
[Someone Editions](https://www.someoneeditions.com/)
Published
Series consists of a folio collection, chapbooks, artist's books, and broadsides designed, composed, and published by Someone Editions.
Title based on the contents of the series.
Series has been arranged by format into the following subseries:
1. Chapbooks
2. Broadsides & Posters
3. French Letter Society
Further accruals are expected. Most recent accrual was in January 2026.
Updated by A Mociani, 29 April 2026.
Published
Subseries consists of 8 chapbooks and artist's designed, typeset, and printed by Someone Editions. Subseries includes titles from the someone:elements and Little Letterpress series.
Title based on contents of the subseries.
File names retain original title case. Authors of the text are supplied in brackets at the file level.
Subseries is arranged chronologically.
someone:air - a cappella is the second publication in the someone:elements series.
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File consists of 1 copy of someone:air - a cappella, a chapbook featuring poetry by Nicole Brossard and images by Mauricio Corteletti. The poems are in French, with English translation provided by Robert Majzels and Erin Mouré. The chapbook is signed by Brossard and Corteletti.
The colophon for the chapbook states:
"Designed and produced by Deborah Barnett at Someone Editions 2018 with series editor Beatriz Hausner. Type is Solomon, designed by Svetoslav Simov in 2010 and printed letterpress on vintage laid paper (Curtis Rag ivory) with 4 solid mixed inks, in an edition of 52 signed and numbered copies of which this is Number 47."
Donated from Barnett's personal archive/collection.
Revised by A. Mociani, 6 March 2025.
This chapbook is the first publication in the Little Letterpress series produced by Someone Editions.
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File consists of 1 chapbook with prose by Jay MillAr and images by Natalia Moskwa. The chapbook is printed on deckle edged paper and housed in a white envelope with "Someone Editions Little Letterpress #1, and #39" written on the back of the envelope. Two stickers of illustrations by Moskwa (?) are also on the envelope.
The colophon of the chapbook states:
"Designed by Deborah Barnett in Toronto
The editor of the Little Letterpress series is Beatriz Hausner
Blue Eye Shadow display type designed by Elliott Peter Earls in 1993
Arbitrary regular and bold types designed by Barry Deck in 1990
Both type designs produced for Emigre in Berkeley California
Letterpress printed on Canal paper from La Papeterie St. Armand in Quebec
Image output in 12 ink jet inks from HP Designjet 3200
Hand sewn in an edition of 52 signed and numbered copies
26 copies of each Little Letterpress edition will be collected in a boxed set annually
39/52"
The chapbook is signed by MillAr and Moskwa.
This chapbook is the second publication in the Little Letterpress series produced by Someone Editions.
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File consists of 1 chapbook of poetry by Luciano Iacobelli. The chapbook is printed on deckle edged paper.
The colophon states:
"Designed by Deborah Barnett
and produced at Someone Editions.
The editor of the series is Beatriz Hausner.
Set in Franklin Gothic Book Condensed
designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1903
with the titling in Holland, by Lettersiro Co.
Printed on vintage, deckle-edged
Strathmore Fiesta 80lb cover
in an edition of 52, handsewn,
signed and numbered copies.
26 copies of each Little Letterpress will be collected in a boxed set annually."
The back page is signed by Iacobelli and Barnett.
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
Beatriz Hausner is a poet, translator, editor, and librarian. Hausner was born in Santiago, Chile in 1958; she moved with her family to Toronto in 1971, where she studied French and Spanish literature at the University of Toronto. Hausner has published several poetry collections, including She Who Lies Above (2023); Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020); Enter the Raccoon (2012); Sew Him Up (2010); and The Wardrobe Mistress (2003). Her work has been translated into Dutch, French, Greek, and Spanish. Hausner has also translated the works of various poets, often focusing her attention on surrealism. These include the works of César Moro, Rosamel del Valle, Enrique Gómez-Correa, Jorge Cáceres, Aldo Pellegrini, among others. Hausner was greatly influenced by her mother, artist Susana Wald, and stepfather, poet Ludwig Zeller; she often translated Zeller’s poetry. Hausner was a publisher at Quattro Books, was President of the Literary Translator’s Association of Canada, and lead the Public Lending Right Commission as its Chair. Hausner also worked at the Toronto Reference Library for several decades, eventually returning to graduate school to get her Master of Information from the University of Toronto to work as a librarian.
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This item is a letterpress-printed chapbook designed and produced by Deborah Barnett in Toronto, Canada, in 2018. The text is by David R. Carlson with illustrations by Rei Misiri.
The publication was created using traditional letterpress printing techniques in combination with contemporary digital design processes. Its typefaces include Mason Sans, used for titling, and the Absara type family for the main text. The text block is printed on Canaletto Bianco felt paper and features a cover made from vintage Fabriano paper. The binding is hand-sewn using a pamphet stitch. It was issued in a limited edition of 52 copies, each signed and numbered by the designer. The copy held in the archives is 50 of 52.
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This literary letterpress chapbook featuring a poem and images by Luciano Iacobelli was issued in a limited edition of 40 signed and numbered copies. Each copy was designed, printed, and bound by Deborah Barnett. The chapbook edition of "Open Cut" has 10 pages, which are sewn into printed paper covers and bound using a traditional pamphlet stitch. The flyleaves are French marbled paper.
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Two copies of an artist's book featuring a laser-cut Plike cover incorporating French marbled paper. The text block comprises vintage Fabriano and Strathmore Fiesta papers, as well as shellacked mulberry paper. It was letterpress printed using a split fount of brown and red, which resulted in an ombré effect.
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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Produced collaboratively by poet Sarah Teitel and Deborah Barnett, this is an experimental chapbook printed on a FAG standard cylinder proof press. "Bird Rise" contains a poem alongside a unique mixed media art piece. It uses three different colours of handmade paper, and incorporates deep letterpress impressions. It is bound with black embroidery floss, using a 3-hole pamphlet method, with decorative knotting that produces a fringe effect.
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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Commissioned by self-published author Andrew Kostjuk, this chapbook features a cover produced by Deborah Barnett. The outer cover is constructed from mulberry paper soaked and coated in shellac, resulting in a translucent effect. The inner cover features deep letterpress impressions and is printed on 130 lb Strathmore wove paper. "Terrify Me" demonstrates Barnett’s application of fine press and book arts techniques within a trade-oriented, collaborative context rather than an artist’s book framework.
This copy is signed in pencil by both Deborah Barnett and Andrew Kostjuk, and numbered 39/50.
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Subseries consists of one folio and one collection of broadsides (6 in total) with associated promotional materials, designed, composed, and printed by Someone Editions.
Title based on contents of the subseries.
File names retain original title case. Authors are supplied in brackets at the file level.
Subseries is arranged chronologically.
someone:water is the first publication in the someone:elements series.
More information about the series is available at [Someone Editions](https://www.someoneeditions.com/product-page/someone-water-the-boxed-set).
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File consists of 1 box set of someone:water, a collection of 6 original folded broadsides in celebration of water, and 1 poster promoting a reading of one of the broadsides at the NACO Gallery in Toronto on August 4, 2011.
The collection contains the following broadsides, in the order in which they appear in the set. Original years of publication are listed in brackets.
A. F. Moritz (text), Susana Wald & Deborah Barnett (ill.): The Shore (2009)
Astrida Neimanis: We are all bodies of water (2011)
Beatriz Hausner (text), Seth Scriver (ill.): The Metaphysics of Water (2012)
Paul Till (ill.): The waters are divided into two parts (2017)
Pamela Dodds (ill.): Swimmers (2014)
Karl Jirgens (text), Zile Liepins (ill.): Pas de Deux (2017)
A notation on the box states this is #19 of 52 copies. Each broadside is signed by the contributing author and/or artist.
More information about the folio is available at [Someone Editions](https://www.someoneeditions.com/product-page/year-of-the-quiet-sun).
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File consists of one copy of *Year of the Quiet Sun*, a folio of collages and poetry by Chilean visual artist Ludwig Zeller, and one unsigned card (with envelope) featuring a quote and illustration from Zeller.
The poems in the folio are in Spanish, with English translation by A.F. Moritz. The folio is signed by Zeller.
The folio also includes a page of dedications and thanks, signed by Deborah Barnett, and a description about the collection:
"Prints from photo polymer plates on beautiful Canal paper from The Mill at St Armand. Folios produced from Fabiano, and Strathmore Art Laid; lined with Caress Text papers. Types include Suburban and Twentieth Century.
Three collage and poetry broadsides, each letterpress printed in an edition of 52 with acid-free folio covers wrapping 26 numbered sets, including title page, of which this is 20/26"
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Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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Initially, copies of this print were produced as unique image pages, two for each artists' book copy of Open Cut, leaving 20 unfolded images for framing.
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Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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This broadside was created using leftover, in-process materials from the chapbook "Bird Rise", which featured a poem and drawing by Sarah Teitel with typesetting, design, and production by Deborah Barnett. It is signed by both contributors.
Donated by Deborah Barnett.
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Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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This series consists of letterpress-printed literary broadsides produced as part of the French Letter Society, a collective publishing initiative that supports emerging writers and artists. Each French Letter combines an original poem with a visual art insert and is issued as a folded print object enclosed in an envelope.
The series documents the production of contemporary fine press publications created using traditional letterpress printing methods. Each edition is designed, typeset, and printed by Deborah Barnett on a FAG Standard cylinder proof press at her studio in Toronto, Ontario. The publications are materially and conceptually influenced by the mail art movement.
In addition to the printed objects themselves, the series reflects the collaborative relationship between poets and visual artists and records the activities of Someone Editions as a contemporary book arts initiative. Each publication is folded and assembled in a communal space by volunteers and supporters of the press before being presented at a public launch event that brings together members of the literary and book arts communities.
Donated by Deborah Barnett after being created in the Someone Editions studio.
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The Throat is Syrupy / The Skin Remembers is the prototype for the FLS series. It was created by the press' editor, Beatriz Hausner and its creative director, Deborah Barnett. In this piece, a poem by Hausner coexists with a collage by Barnett.
Beatriz Hausner is a poet, translator, editor, and librarian. Hausner was born in Santiago, Chile in 1958; she moved with her family to Toronto in 1971, where she studied French and Spanish literature at the University of Toronto. Hausner has published several poetry collections, including She Who Lies Above (2023); Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020); Enter the Raccoon (2012); Sew Him Up (2010); and The Wardrobe Mistress (2003). Her work has been translated into Dutch, French, Greek, and Spanish. Hausner has also translated the works of various poets, often focusing her attention on surrealism. These include the works of César Moro, Rosamel del Valle, Enrique Gómez-Correa, Jorge Cáceres, Aldo Pellegrini, among others. Hausner was greatly influenced by her mother, artist Susana Wald, and stepfather, poet Ludwig Zeller; she often translated Zeller’s poetry. Hausner was a publisher at Quattro Books, was President of the Literary Translator’s Association of Canada, and lead the Public Lending Right Commission as its Chair. Hausner also worked at the Toronto Reference Library for several decades, eventually returning to graduate school to get her Master of Information from the University of Toronto to work as a librarian.
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The Throat is Syrupy / The Skin Remembers is an artist’s book produced as the prototype for the French Letter Society series. Created by Beatriz Hausner and Deborah Barnett, the work brings together a poem by Hausner and a collage by Barnett, presented in a collaborative book form. Printed in an edition of 28.
Due to the fold present, paper may exhibit preservation issues in the future.
Acquired from Deborah Barnett upon launch.
Created by Deborah Barnett in her studio.
https://www.someoneeditions.com/thismessage-thefall
"This Message Has No Content / The Fall by Stephen Cain and Jesse Graham is a letterpress object released on July 6 2024. While Stephen Cain's words echo the grit of our urban shuffle, Jesse Graham's work draws on the age-old theme of memento mori. Combined, incorporate the concept of mortality and the ephemerality of the human body."
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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A folded broadside inside a printed envelope. This piece contains a poem by academic Stephen Cain and a unique artwork from tattoo artist Jesse Graham. It was typeset and printed by hand in Deborah Barnett's studio.
Deborah Barnett.
Created in Deborah Barnett's studio and donated upon launch.
https://www.someoneeditions.com/glaciermelt-prizeinside
This collaborative piece positions original poetry by Sonja Greckol with assemblages by N. Moskwa. While Greckol's poetry brings us to face our manifest concerns for the environment, Moskwa's works draw on the whimsical nature of her Canadian childhood, while being inspired by Louise Bourgeois' spiders as a maternal archetype. For this project, she created over 100 individual works, each of them with a unique container for a surprise: a tiny 3D charm reminding us that we do not know the future. 'Prize Inside' incorporates materials that were within the artist's reach: clothing tags, vintage gift wrap from the sixties, postal receipts from parcels her parents sent to Ukraine in the 70s, vintage Laurentian pencil crayons, and handmade paper.
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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A folded broadside inside a printed envelope. This piece contains a poem by Sonja Greckol and a unique artwork from artist Natalia Moskwa. It was typeset and printed by hand in Deborah Barnett's studio.
- Hand typesetting in lead and photopolymer plates
- Custom-mixed inks and press techniques
Donated by Deborah Barnett.
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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This broadside presents a collaborative work combining a text-based artwork by Roberto Marra and a poem by Agata Mociani. Designed by Deborah Barnett, the piece features a modernist-inspired layout and was printed using photopolymer plates. The titles are set in the Basquiat typeface, and the broadside and its accompanying envelope are printed in red and blue ink. The archival copy held in the collection is signed by both contributors and is numbered 79 of an edition of 100 copies.
Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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Deborah Barnett (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian creative director, fine press printer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.
She attended high school at Central Technical School in Toronto and was accepted into the school’s art program, where she took an interest in sculpture and drawing. Shortly after graduating, she became a founding member of Dreadnaught Press, working first as an apprentice, and later as an art director. The fine press printing collective was well-known in the Canadian literary and publishing community, and served as a space for Barnett to hone her print, design, and typography skills.
Beginning in 1981, Barnett lectured at the annual Banff Publishing Workshop in Alberta for nearly a decade, teaching design, art direction, and colour theory. After Dreadnaught Press disbanded in the mid 1980s, she started her own commercial design studio under the name Dreadnaught Design. Clients included Price Waterhouse Cooper, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and Reed Books Canada. In 2001, Dreadnaught Design became Someone.ca. Launched by Barnett and business partner Aaron Benson, Someone.ca specialized in website development, web design, and communications. During this time, Barnett also took on creative director roles for several large investment firms. She returned to more extensive fine press printing in 2010, collaborating on letterpress projects and creating custom materials for clients. In 2015, she launched Someone Editions, a specialty letterpress imprint in the spirit of Dreadnaught Press, alongside editor and poet Beatriz Hausner.
In 2018, Barnett took on the role of Master Printer at Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College, where she taught printing and typesetting workshops, and led production of a series of limited edition chapbooks for the Kelly Library Print Studio. In 2021, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) from OCAD University.
In 2024, Barnett launched an imprint of Someone Editions called the French Letter Society. For this project, Barnett designs, typesets, and prints broadsides comprised of creative work by various visual artists and poets, reviving the casual "kitchen table print" culture popularized by private presses and literary circles in the first half of the 20th century. In 2025, Barnett began making an active effort to turn her letterpress studio into a community space and salon for poetry readings, gallery openings, artists' alleys, print demonstrations, and workshops. Her book arts practice continues to evolve.
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This parchment envelope was created by tanner and parchment artisan Daniel Stermac-Stein in collaboration with writer James Nowak at the Herdsthrone micro-tannery. Designed as a container for the six French Letter Society broadsides launched in 2024, the parchment sheath is firmly bound with a leather thong and includes a letterpress tag.
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