Jim Parkinson was born in Oakland, California, in 1941. A neighbor who was a commercial artist got him hooked on lettering and he has been puzzling over the alphabet ever since. Today he specializes in custom and retail font design and the design and repair of typographic logos for magazines and newspapers. He has designed exclusive fonts for a number of publishers including Adobe, ITC, AGFA Monotype, Chank, The Font Bureau, and FontFont. He also sells other font designs directly through MyFonts, Fonts.com and FontShop. His work includes logos for Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, Men’s Journal, Los Angeles Magazine, InStyle, the Detroit Free Press, the Dallas Morning News, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. Jim’s font and logo designs can be seen on his web site: typedesign.com. Watch an interview with Jim on the FontFeed.