Founded in 2010, the Society of Typographic Aficionados’ Catalyst Award is given to a person 25 years of age or younger who “demonstrates significant achievement and future promise in the field of typography.” more

Tony Foster is an English artist who has worked in the World’s wildernesses - mountains and canyons, rainforests and deserts, the Arctic and the Tropics for 30 years. more

It’s often been said that love is an adventure. I was honored this summer to have a hand in seeing one lovely couple off on their next voyage. more

When I was first contacted by CreativeLive to teach a series of brush lettering classes, I was both excited and terrified! more

Spring is such a lovely time of year, especially where I live in the Pacific Northwest. After short days, lots of rain and sometimes snow, the spring weather is more than welcome. It means longer days, less rain, more sun and spring time wines! During the winter, I like a big, bold glass of wine like a cabernet sauvignon or a petit verdot that pairs well with stews or soups. But just about this time every year, I can’t wait to break open the whites or roses! more

It’s one thing to design a font to be used on 2-D creative pieces like posters, banners, headlines and other artwork, it’s totally different to see it come to life on physical products like necklaces, balloons and handkerchiefs. more

Check out this time lapse video (shortened from 12 to 3 minutes) I made of me drawing a W for my font Winsome in FontLab! more

I have great customers! So many of you have created amazing things using my fonts, so amazing in fact that I wanted to share some of those with you.  more

June was a busy month! I had the opportunity to speak at several different events, all so great that I just had to share my experiences with you! The first started at the beginning of the month in Faenza, Italy, home for some of the world’s best Sangiovese, at the Kerning Conference! This was the third year of the Kerning Conference and it’s the first international conference in Italy dedicated solely to typography and web typography. more

My work has been featured in this fabulous new book about lettering and type design titled Hand to Type. The book also includes a series of chapters outlining principles of script forms and traces script fonts back to some of the earliest examples. more

I had recently purchased some big rolls of paper and was having fun wasting it by drawing letters huge and gesturally. more