Parkinson: Typography for the Masses

I was an editor at my student paper when the editor-in-chief decided to hire Jim to restore the paper's flag.

I really like his stuff too.

Azuza is probably my favorite.

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Phil's Fonts recently interviewed Parkinson and John Downer. Two of the three parts have been posted.

www.philsfonts.com

This confuses me – The Dallas Morning News is still using what is marked as “Before” as its current masthead. Did the Morning News not like what Mr Parkinson did for it, or what?

If so, it happens all the time.

The one that bugs me the most is the time the city of Rome commissioned Gerard Unger to make not just a wonderful custom font, but an entire signage system, for the year 2000. They paid for it (at least as far as I know), but never actually used it...

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I had not gone through all the logos before. How cool to be the one who did this?

I used his Modesto for posters and other applications for a theater festival here in San Francisco. (link to poster)

I also used it on one of our nonprofit's projects, Polar Science Station. Sadly, the project wasn't developed nearly so well as I had hoped it would be.

I was sitting on the subway the other day and the woman across from me was reading TVyNovelas. I remarked to my wife how similar the logo was to Rolling Stone. I assumed it was a ripoff, but, now, all is made clear.

>My favorite examples are the Before and After and this one is my favorite, so simple yet so effective.

I notice that Jim added a bunch of tick-marks to the Tribune masthead lettering: interestingly, I did a blackletter renovation for the Birmingham News nameplate (shinntype.com > BN Gothic) where the old version already had the ticks, so I took them off!