2017–2018 quarterly catch-up
A special quadruple quarterly report (lol). I got way behind on this sort of planning. Turns out having a baby while writing a book and working full-time makes you sorta busy. Here are some things I did in the past year, as well as older accomplishments less recent (that I am retiring from the home page).
Done over the past year
- Finished writing a book about flexible typesetting for A Book Apart. May 2018
- Launched Font Packs. May 2018
- Helped release Minion 3 by Robert Slimbach (check out the preview page). Apr 2018
- Renovated our front porch. Oct 2017
- Welcomed my third daughter into the world! Jun 2017
From a while ago
Retiring this stuff from Recently:
- Led several teams of people to design new typography tools. May 2017
- Reorganized & painted bedrooms. May 2017
- Built basement shelves like this. Apr 2017
- Read Zita the Spacegirl books (Legends/Return) with my kids. Mar 2017
- Gave a virtual seminar at UIE’s UX Symposium. Mar 2017
- Got through a bout of Lyme disease. Feb 2017
- Set a variety of projects in motion. Jan 2017
- Bought new smoke detectors. (Replace yours every 10 years.) Dec 2016
- Built a workbench. Dec 2016
- Voted, then spent time processing the election results. Nov 2016
- Helped launch Typekit Marketplace and Typekit Platform at Adobe MAX. Nov 2016
- Talked about variable fonts with Jeff Veen on his podcast, Presentable. Oct 2016