Drawing from an uncomfortable position

Calligraphy by Taki Kodaira I leave the radiant morning and plunge into a cavernous pub. Early birds or night-shift workers are sinking ...

Helvetica Medium in Letraset - remember that? 'Tensho,' muses my friend Pete as we walk up Baker Street to our shodō class,...

For shod ō ( 書道) , Japanese calligraphy with brush and ink, one has to be poised and calm. Not trying to disassemble the Daiwa Foundation...

To learn shod ō ( 書道), a form of Japanese calligraphy, one should be calm of mind, maybe with a view of cherry blossom. Instead I...

Home is where you hang your hat. But in ancient China, home was where you sacrificed animals to propitiate the gods, so the early ideogram f...