Shawn Henshall

J.W. (Jack) McLaren (1895-1988) was a man of many talents. He was a Canadian graphic designer and adman with his own Toronto-based firm, an illustrator of books and magazines, a cartoonist, a friend of the Group of Seven and other artists of the day, and – after going to war in Europe with the Princess Pats in the First World War – a member of a comedy troupe assigned to entertain the troops, which was later folded into the Dumbells.

Shawn Henshall spent years researching the artist for… Show more

J.W. (Jack) McLaren (1895-1988) was a man of many talents. He was a Canadian graphic designer and adman with his own Toronto-based firm, an illustrator of books and magazines, a cartoonist, a friend of the Group of Seven and other artists of the day, and – after going to war in Europe with the Princess Pats in the First World War – a member of a comedy troupe assigned to entertain the troops, which was later folded into the Dumbells.

Shawn Henshall spent years researching the artist for his 2020 illustrated biography The Forgotten Legend. For Jack McLaren in Black and White, he has restricted the biography to a short introduction and devoted the rest of the book to McLaren’s black-and-white art – his amazing linocuts, his pen and ink work, his scratchboard drawings, and much else, annotated where necessary. McLaren delighted in creating caricatures of important Canadian political, cultural and business figures, but he also drew elaborate scenes of the country’s railway history, put together ads in silhouette, illustrated a series of short stories reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, and – well, the range of styles is impressive. Dive in anywhere and come away pleased. Show less

Established in 1980, DA is Canada's 'Journal of the Printing Arts'. DA fosters an appreciation of the physical and social aspects of bookmaking in Canada, reaching out to a global audience of typographic and printing arts enthusiasts who appreciate the value of the printed word even in this digital age.

For generations, Canadian artists have made their mark on the world, with countless individuals rising to fame on stage and screen, and as frontrunners in the various arts, inspiring and influencing all who come after them.

One of these legends has been largely forgotten, though his contribution to the arts have inspired the likes of Monty Python and Kids in the Hall, and brought hope and laughter to troops serving their countries at home and overseas, all the while pushing boundaries as… Show more

For generations, Canadian artists have made their mark on the world, with countless individuals rising to fame on stage and screen, and as frontrunners in the various arts, inspiring and influencing all who come after them.

One of these legends has been largely forgotten, though his contribution to the arts have inspired the likes of Monty Python and Kids in the Hall, and brought hope and laughter to troops serving their countries at home and overseas, all the while pushing boundaries as a prolific artist, illustrator, author, and actor.

This book tells the story of forgotten legend John Wilson (Jack) McLaren from his birth in Scotland to his early years in Canada, becoming a soldier in WWI, entertaining his comrades in arms on the stages of Europe, his business career after the war, his deep involvement with the Group of Seven, his membership in Toronto’s famed Arts & Letters Club, and his eventual retirement to the community of Benmiller, near Goderich, Ontario, where he passed away in 1988.

His is a story that deserves to be told … and remembered. Show less

Generating efficient code for application-specific instruction set processors involves many different, interrelated subproblems. The algorithms that have been implemented to deal with these subproblems can be used as either standalone subsystems or a pre-processing to provide more focused constraints for an Integer Linear Program. The first of these subsystems involves the analysis of activity inside the high level representation of a DSP application, such as the frequency of use and lifetime… Show more

Generating efficient code for application-specific instruction set processors involves many different, interrelated subproblems. The algorithms that have been implemented to deal with these subproblems can be used as either standalone subsystems or a pre-processing to provide more focused constraints for an Integer Linear Program. The first of these subsystems involves the analysis of activity inside the high level representation of a DSP application, such as the frequency of use and lifetime of variables. Decisions must also be made regarding the storage of these variables in registers and/or memories so that DSP register constraints can be met. The final task involves identifying patters in which variables are accessed in memory so that an optimal access method may be assigned. Show less

Material contained in this book has been selected from the contributions presented at a workshop at Schlob Dagstuhl, Germany from August 31st to September 2, 1994. This research focuses on technology and algorithms that generate high-quality code generation tools for embedded processors.