Jan Middendorp (4/9/56-12/8/23) contributed an incredible wealth of knowledge to the field of typography and was an integral part of our typographic family. I met Jan at my first TypeCon conference in Milwaukee in 2012. He was one of my first type design mentors, who offered business advice, type critiques, and introduced me to invaluable new contacts in the field. Jan was at …
My Nordique font sales have continued to climb throughout the past four years, but the big moment came in the fall of 2019 when The LEGO Group purchased Nordique and hired me to design the Cyrillic alphabet to add to it. The call from my font vendor, FontSpring, came a couple weeks before my two-week Croatian sailing trip, and I had six weeks …
As the rain settled in on month eight of social distancing since COVID-19 hit Bellingham, WA, I found myself craving professional gatherings, conferences and geeky design talk. I hadn’t felt drawn to sign up for conferences, as I feel like the most beneficial part is the random meetups in the lobby and catching up with friends from around the world. However, out of …
One of the great things that came out of a quiet, COVID year, was my first cover-to-cover book design, Falling Into Flowers. I couldn’t say no to designing pages packed with type, and gorgeous, wedding floral photography. Working with author and wedding floral designer Alison Ellis was—to say the least—inspiring. She delivered piles of stunning photos of her beautiful floral work by professional …
