posters for all!

My map of Toronto neighbourhoods from Ork Posters has arrived!

(Actually, it got here, unframed, about a week and a half ago, but I didn't have time to frame it until this weekend.)

It's perfect, and I love it. I try not to buy so many prints and posters any more (because honestly, I am out of wall space already), but it's a little bit like a sickness; I can't help myself. And this one is beautiful. Ork posted a preview a month or two ago, but it wasn't available until two weeks ago. I'd been stalking the web site so I think I ordered it almost as soon as it was released. Luckily, Pd really likes it, too.

The print (and the allure) is pretty self-explanatory. It's a vaguely hipster thing to have, but it's also very typography-geek, and since I am definitely the latter I think it's okay. Anyway, it's infinitely better than "Keep Calm and Carry On," which was cool and retro when it first hit and has since become tired and annoying. (I think the trend died for me the day I saw it emblazoned on a coffee mug — in pink — at the local big box bookstore.)

I am fairly picky about messages on my walls. When we were at the One of a Kind Show, I kept making sardonic comments about the canvas-backed aphorisms that people were selling — Today is a Brand New Day! Remember to Smile! etc., done it cutesy swirly fonts. They seemed to be everywhere. And it was just — I can see them being very cute in a photograph, but I can't imagine actually living with them. I want things on my wall that make me happy, not ones that just tell me to be happy.

That being said, the next thing that needs to get framed is this poster from the 826 Valencia pirate store:


Because sometimes, you just need to be reminded of the proper order of things.