The first time I saw a Mr. Frotheringham illustration was on the cover of Mudhoney’s “Piece Of Cake” CD in 1992. I imagined Ed having a half broken, leaky pen that gave him his beautiful thick/thin line quality. His work inspired me to experiment with pen and ink more as well as color blocking. Fast forward to today and Ed is still working in Seattle for big clients like the New Yorker, Washington Post, Men’s Journal, Scholastic and many others. If it says “Mr. Frotheringham”, you know it’s quality!

Joanna and I designed 2 ampersands to be used in the SOTA collaborative typeface “Coming Together”, which was created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Read more here.

The design firm Pentagram let’s you discover “What Type Are You“. Answer 4 questions designed to find out just what type(face) captures your personality. The password is: character.

For the last post of 2009 I leave you with the new Buttermilk Typeface designed by illustrator/designer/typographer Jessica Hische. Thanks for your support of Mightypop and I’ll see you in 2010!

Typedia is a new wiki style site for typography classification & information. I learned a few new things in the Anatomy of a Typeface area.