Bill Pick and Robert Johnstone

Robert Johnstone: Book jackets, record covers, newspapers "even a Playboy cover," all of these beguiling bits of type, painstakingly crafted, came to Toronto from around the world, for the prestigious Typomundus 20 competition. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "And the only collection of its scope ever attempted went to the incinerator in a truck marked, "Bill Pick Up," wrote Star reporter Robert Johnstone in 1965. It was said to be the greatest collection of 20th century typography ever assembled. How it wound up in the trash near Bloor Street is a forgotten bit of Toronto history. After the judging, the collection of 10,000 items was stored in a "dingy" Bloor St. East rooming house, and when someone forgot to pay the rent, the items were thrown out by the landlord, who mistook the boxes for junk. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.