Born in Vancouver, Canada in 1934, he attended the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr College) graduating with honors in 1960 specializing in typographic design and letterpress printing.

He came to Toronto in 1962 as Art Director of The Toronto Star.
In 1968 he joined book publisher McClelland & Stewart’s Illustrated Book Division
as Art / Design Director before starting his own design studio.
He joined Ginn & Company, textbook publishers in 1981
as Vice President, Graphics & Production.
He has designed books for most of the Canadian publishers as well as
The National Gallery of Canada, limited edition art books for Gallery Moos and Roberts Gallery
and exhibition catalogues for The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

His work has been exhibited in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal,
San Francisco, Chicago, New York, London, England and Leipzig, Germany.
He has received over 125 design awards including 8 gold medals among them
a gold and a bronze at the Leipzig Buchkunst Austellung im Aller Welt.
In 1964 was named Executive Chairman of the world exhibition Typomundus 20 and
served as president of the Typographic Designers of Canada 1967/68

Introduced to printing design in art school, he purchased his first press and some type
while still in art school, subsequently selling that press to B.C. artist Takao Tanabe
prior to leaving for Toronto. The foundry type he shipped to Toronto where
he purchased another press and set up shop in his basement.
Since then he has obtained a few more presses and much more metal type.

He has collected manuscripts over the years with the intention
of someday producing “limited edition” books.
In 1995, while visiting in Connecticut, friend and former art school teacher Robert Reid
gave him the manuscript for The Island of Demons, the Vandercook press and the Caslon Old Face types.
Three and one half years of work later, the limited fine edition of
The Island of Demons was published – perhaps the first of many limited editions yet to come.

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