Hummingbird at my Feeder

My good friend Nick Sherman from MyFonts.com stayed with me for a few days in the first week of 2009. He had moved out of his apartment in Boston, put his stuff in storage, and intended to be homeless for a year. It ended up being his “Year of the Mobo.”

We coined the term “mobo” as an evolutionary step beyond the classic hobo archetype: the restless traveler who chooses the open road over closed doors. Both the hobo and the mobo consciously decide to have no permanent address. The difference is that the mobo is permanently and gainfully employed in a placeless, internet-based occupation. A mobo is able to work from anywhere in the world through the aid of web technology and a network of places to stay (at little or no cost). Have laptop, will travel.

As a thank-you and perhaps the most thoughtful gift I have ever received, Nick had Amazon deliver a hummingbird feeder to my doorstep. It has provided organic raw cane nectar to my tiny, blurry-winged visitors for about a year now, and they have given me “a sense of enormous well-being.”

I shot this video on the first day of December 2009 with my simple Canon Powershot digital camera. Please excuse that it goes out of focus, but likewise appreciate that these little birds are at arm’s length from me as I work at my desk. Besides being a welcomed distraction, they are a constant reminder to be hospitable at any chance because you never know when you’ll receive the nicest guests.

Heroic Condensed in FontShop’s Top Type of 2009

My Heroic Condensed font family made its way onto FontShop’s Top Type of 2009 list.

Facebuster in Use at Poems Out Loud

Here’s another sighting of my Facebuster font at Poems Out Loud.

Facebuster is nicely contrasted here with a thin sans serif in the logo and headings.

The design is by Mandy Brown @ A Working Library.

Thanks to Joe Newton @ Veer for the find.

LA Weekly Best of LA Budget Edition uses Facebuster

The latest LA Weekly caught my eye today. They used my font Facebuster on the cover and throughout the “Best of LA : Budget Edition” dated October 2–8, 2009.




Facebuster always looks good large.




Here it even works with neon Photoshop effects...



and with Elvira lookalikes...



It held up alright at smaller settings in the table of contents, on the spine of the magazine, and in the headers and footers of every page.






In keeping with the themes of “Best of LA” and “Budget Edition”, Facebuster will be on sale only at TypeTrust.com when you use the promocode LAWEEKLY at checkout.

My First “Serious” Serif Text Typeface

I’m working on my first serious serif face. Here’s a peek at the Regular, Italic and Medium styles...