imprimerie dromadaire

Proprietor

Glenn Goluska was born in Chicago in 1947. He has worked as a designer at Coach House Press in Toronto and was one of the original editors (with Paul Forage and William Rueter) of The Devil's Artisan, which first appeared in 1980. In 1989 Glenn moved to Montreal as print design consultant to Phyllis Lambert at the Centre for the Study of Architecture in Montreal.

Press Profile

Imprimerie dromadaire began in Chicago in 1975, when Glenn was working for a typesetting company. After moving to Toronto, imprimerie dromadaire was housed in a downtown dairy stable and later, after the purchase of a Vandercook Proof Press, in the kitchen of Glenn's Toronto home.

While working at the Coach House Press in Toronto he found himself living in a "veritable ghetto of hand printers, with Dreadnaught Press, Aliquando Press and Coach House all within two or three blocks of our house. The encouragement and advice of Will Rueter, Stan Bevington and especially Robert MacDonald, who's press I used initially, led to a spate of broadsides and other ephemera." 1

Imprimerie dromadaire's early output was regulated by a "confirmed habit of procrastination and fanatic perfectionism," according to Glenn. Glenn's main interests are in typography, letter forms, literature (particularly Russian) in translation, and wood type.

When Glenn moved to Montreal in 1989, imprimerie dromadaire never quite made it out of the packing cases, and was almost completely dormant for 10 years. In January of 2001 however, the linotype machine housed in Glenn's Montreal basement was up and running again.

1. Glenn Goluska. In Marylin Rueter and David Kotin, eds., Reader, Lover of Books, Lover of Heaven. Willowdale: North York Public Library, 1978. P. 52.