We tend to spend our happiest moments around a table. It is the focal point for cozy gatherings and intimate conversations among family and friends. Dreams are expressed, plans debated, secrets revealed. And this happens at tables both in our homes and out at restaurants and bars. Without doubt food has become a major focal…

Just as it is said that you can learn a lot about a city by the postcards it produces, the same is true for trade fairs and their posters. They serve as a window into the organizer's visions of and for the fair itself. The trick - and fun - is in deciphering which messages…

A Short History of the Blue Jean: Patented in 1873 by San Francisco-based importer Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, a tailor from Reno, Nev..... After visiting the western mining fields during his extensive 1882 tour of America, Oscar Wilde declares denims to be the trousers of tomorrow.... The zipper, invented by Canadian Herbert Dow, first…

Fourteen years ago, a very small company, Crailer Communications, took over two magazines from a very large publishing company. The magazines, Canadian Interiors and Building, were both suffering severely the effects of the early 1990s recession that had hit Canada's construction and development industry and their prognosis was not good. Crailer was my company and…