the Love Lettering Project | Write love to what you love.

June 18, 2013
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Love lettering in London, Part 1

I’m love lettering in London and it all feels like a bit of a dream come true – hanging out in the Very Good Company office, kicking off A Good Week on Twitter, seeing the plush version of the A Good Week logo in person…man alive, it’s been a very good week indeed and it’s only Tuesday!

The plush version of “A Good Week’s” logo

Today, I hung out at Fairly Square coffee shop in London and found out what people love about their city, drinking heaps of coffee in the process. (Check out more photos here!)

It was all sorts of amazing (and check out the incredible reclaimed wood! Stunning!)

And I got to meet the wonderful creator of Yoga Studio App – a yoga app that has changed my life! It was so wonderful to hear her voice in person (and in London, while she was on her way to get her permanent residency — the perfect time for a love letter!)

Off to Brighton tomorrow!

ps: Thank you thank you Canada Council and generous Indiegogo supporters for this incredible opportunity. It is incredible times a thousand!

June 15, 2013
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Kicking off a Good Week (a GREAT week…!)

I am so honoured to be kicking off A Good Week in London, England! June 17-23: A global celebration of good!

And you can join me on Twitter for A Good Week kick off Q&A: Monday June 17th from 14-15:00 London time (that’s 9-10am EDT!)

Follow the goodness on Twitter: @AGoodWeek and hashtag your goodness #agoodweek!

June 14, 2013
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love. (x a thousand)

Fact: The word “love” on every single of the 3,000 love letters that have been written for The Love Lettering Project has been handwritten. It’s a strange and wonderful meditation, one that I started up again in preparation for June’s UK tour.

“love.” x 1000.

(And now I just need to get them all to fit in a suitcase!)

I leave Sunday and can’t WAIT to meet all these brilliant folks doing brilliant things across the pond.

My hosts, A Very Good Company, do incredible social engagement work in London, AND I’m helping them to kick of A Good Week – a global celebration of good!

Spark & Mettle connects youth who want to explore non-traditional career pathways with people, ideas and organizations who can help them get to where they want to go.

The People Who Share head up a global sharing economy.

Spook Studios is all about the shifting entrepreneurial practice, finding the spot where business, design & technology meet for their clients.

…and that’s just from my first two stops – London and Brighton!

If you happen to be in the UK, or know someone who is, send them my way!

(Time to pack that dang ol’ suitcase…)

June 12, 2013
by Lindsay
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City love in billboard form

Nothing I love more than spreading some good ol’ fashioned city love, and I’m honoured to have been asked to help Spacing and Pattison Onestop with their newest public art project, Dear City Canada. I’m going to help pick the tweeted love notes that will appear on billboards across Canada!

If you happen to be in Vancouver, Surrey, Abbotsford, Pitt Meadows, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Kitchener, Hamilton, Toronto, Peterborough, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Moncton, or Halifax, keep your eyes peeled after July 1st!

Time to pack for the UK…!

June 9, 2013
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Packing…erm, well, not yet…

My brand new cherry red Swedish Hasbeens

Countdown to UK love lettering = 1 week! And from what I can tell by the pile of cardstock and paper and airmail envelope bunting, there’s not going to be a whole lotta room for anything that’s not paper!

I will however find room (come hell or high water!) to pack these inspired red kicks – a gift from my neighbourhood shoe shop, Imelda.

I’m bowled over by the generosity of neighbours and the kindness of folks in Toronto. Thank you, thank you Team Imelda for the most wonderful love lettering kicks!! I can’t wait to take ‘em all over the UK!

May 31, 2013
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The best thing about my day…

…was receiving this gem of a photo all the way from Comox, B.C.

Claire and the love letter

Pure joy!

May 27, 2013
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Postcard prep

Ta-da! One of the perks (PERKS!) for donating to my Love Lettering in the UK campaign was that I’d fill supporters’ mailboxes, so this weekend, I got to work, making postcards out of UK maps (and my beloved washi tape!)

I can’t wait to be sitting on the train (window seat! quiet car!) and start filling the blank backs.

The countdown is ON…

May 23, 2013
by Lindsay
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Announcing the 2013 UK love lettering tour!

Lee Rosy’s teashop in Nottingham

Ta-da! I’ve hammered out the last few details about my love lettering tour of the UK! I’m so thrilled to announce it in all of it’s 5-city glory:

June 17-21: London and Brighton, UK: A Good Week
I’ll be joining the ”global celebration of all the Good that happens in the world,” led by London-based social innovation and research agency, A Very Good Company.

June 23, 2013: Bristol, UK for Big Green Week
I can’t wait to meet (in person!) the folks from Kilter Theatre with their theatrical letter-writing tour “The Last Post” that takes place in a Mobile Sorting Office Van. (H ow amazing is that?!)

June 25-26: Liverpool, UK, 1-3pm
I’ll be right on the water, getting school groups to write love letters at the Mersey Maritime Museum.

June 28: Nottingham, UK: Lee Rosy’s
At Lee Rosy’s teashop, I’ll be getting folks from Nottingham to write their city love notes.

July 1, 2013: London, UK: Canada Day International in Trafalgar Square, from 10:30am-6pm
Alongside a day-long street hockey tournament and incredible performances by Canadian musicians, write a love letter in London. I can’t wait for this one!!

The tour is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and generous Indiegogo supporters!

May 14, 2013
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Thank you thank you thank you thank you

Holy smokes! With the help of so many incredible folks, The Love Lettering Project’s Indiegogo Campaign to go on a 5-city UK tour has surpassed (!) Friday’s goal! B-e-s-t!

And THIS is how I feel about it:

Huge and enormous thank yous to generous Indiegogo supporters: Carol McGimpsey, Dani Kind, Luke Anderson, Shannon Litzenberger, Tanya Hunt, Elisha Denburg & Erica Webb, Julie Holmen, Tyrone Warner, Susan Kendal Urbach, Jonah Morris, Jan Hess, Matt Burt, Brittany Duggan, Laura Evans, Tori Allen, Zahra Ebrahim, Kyle Phillips, Fin Thomson, Mark Freeman, Melonie DeGuzman, Patrice Hall, Joe Nowak, Julia Zarankin, Mrs. Eligh, Karen Gibson, Marie-Joseé Chartier, Rhonda Lakowski, Christa Couture, Mary Hulbert, The Watters Bullock family, Johanna McLellan, Sharon Zier-Vogel & Robin Davidson-Arnott, Susan & Don Berard, Devin MacDonald, Jessica Romero, Rob Wakulat, Casey Von Esteban, Barbara Corneil, George Richardson, Ted Zier-Vogel, Danielle Friesen, Katie & Mike Muir, Bonnie Fernie, Elke Schroeder, Marilyn Banting, Katherine McLeod, Helen Pocarovsky, Heather Sauer & The Paper Place, Sheri Block, Rhya Tamasauskas, Carolyn Fell and a whole heap of anonymous folks.

May 13, 2013
by Lindsay
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$300 left to go…and 1,000 air mail envelopes

1,000 air mail envelopes!

I woke up this morning to discover I’m only $300 away from reaching my $3k Friday goal to take The Love Lettering Project on a 5-city UK tour. What a way to start the week!! (More info about the campaign, and to donate, click here!)

So far, I’ve got the post cards printed, accomodations sorted, and have received a box with 1,000 (!) air mail envelopes. I’m getting so excited to cross the ol’ pond and see what folks in London, Brighton, Bristol, Nottingham and Liverpool love about the places they live!