Redesign of Microcosm Publishing’s zine compilation 13 Years of Goof Luck. Cover illustration by Cristy C. Road. The redesign included re-formatting much of the interior image and text content, adding a typographic pattern to the inside covers, title pages, and general snazzing-up. The compilation features some of the most popular writers in the D.I.Y. zine genre today. And only one dollar!

Clobber Grotesk Stencil Bold is a new typeface I designed now available through MyFonts. Clobber marries crude stencil forms with extreme legibility/readability at small sizes.

In the last quarter of 2009, we designed and implemented a massive, very code-intensive intranet for the Unilever corporation’s Japan division used to catalog and track market progress. Needless to say, we can’t show anything but the login screen, but it was a milestone for the studio in showing programming flexibility married with good design.

In the last quarter of 2009, we designed and implemented a massive, very code-intensive intranet for the Unilever corporation’s Japan division used to catalog and track market progress. Needless to say, we can’t show anything but the login screen, but it was a milestone for the studio in showing programming flexibility married with good design.

Freshly launched and new in the Web Design section: The Asics Winter Olympics website. The last days of 2009 found me collaborating with the whiz kids at AQ on this content-riddled, photo-driven website for Asics footwear and the Dutch Winter Olympic team. This Dutch language website promotes Asics’ design of the Olympic uniform for the Vancouver Olympics through a lively mix of product imagery, custom animation, facts from history, and bold Native American-inspired graphic design.

The last days of 2009 found me collaborating with the whiz kids at AQ on this content-riddled, photo-driven website for Asics footwear and the Dutch Winter Olympic team. This Dutch language website promotes Asics’ design of the Olympic uniform for the Vancouver Olympics through a lively mix of product imagery, custom animation, facts from history, and bold Native American-inspired graphic design.

Chomped recently in Portland- Le Pigeon chocolates! Yum!!

Clobber is a new grotesk stencil typeface that will be available through MyFonts and Wordshape shortly. I designed the base forms a number of years ago for a small aluminum furniture manufacturer which they utilized for their branding. I’m currently working on a brand new family for them, so Clobber will shortly be available to the public. The typeface includes a full character set including uppercase, lowercase, figures, and the usual range of diacritics and accents.

Happy holidays from a late night of transcoding, then encoding video and putting together type specimens from long lost typefaces of yore.

Two new projects up in Print + Product: the first season of Open Skateboards and the new Blunt Mechanic CD on Barsuk Records. Very amped on both.

I was just in Chicago doing research for a new article for Idea Magazine and had a bang-up time, diving deep in type history research on my absolute favorite, Oswald Cooper and hanging out with Nate and his sweet kittens, as well as bar Scrabble sojourn action with Aaron.

Thank you, Nate, for the couch space, for being so fricking awesome, and for putting up with my half-assed jet-lagged sleep schedule (though all should note that I got up daily at 8AM latest [!] to drag my ass down to the library. Talk about a Protestant work ethic on a guy, even a reformed Catholic… the lengths some will go to for the love of lettering….).

An extra-large shoutout to Paul Gehl and the tireless staff at the Newberry Library for being such awesome folks. Thank you for your interest, patience, and care. You honor the independent researcher. I salute you!

A long time in the coming: season one of Open Skateboards. What started out as a flight of fancy turned into a full-on skateboard company helmed by Trevor Sias. Two decks for the first season: the Ian Lynam “pro” model and another one I designed in homage to Kiyoshi Awazu, one of my favorite Japanese designers who passed away last year. Screenprinted (not cheesy heat transfer) on super-solid wood in the great state of Pennsylvania.