TDC2 2003 Judges :
Jim Parkinson

Jim Parkinson has been fascinated by lettering and type ever since he was a young boy. Jim is an independent designer and principal of Parkinson Type Design in Oakland, California. For the past thirty years, he has specialized in the design of typefaces and typographic logos. Jim's magazine logo designs include Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Parenting, Sierra, and Esquire (collaborative), El Graphico (Argentina), Cosmos (Columbia) and TVyNovelas (Mexico). His newspaper nameplate designs include the San Francisco Examiner, the Austin American-Statesman, The Charlotte Observer, The National Post, The National Enquirer, The Hamilton Spectator, De Financiele Morgen (Brussels), Kathemerini (Athens), The Montreal Gazette, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press and The Wall Street Journal. He has drawn display typefaces for a number of publications including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Staten Island Advance and the National Post. Jim was one of the designers of ITC Bodoni and designed the logo for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Jim has designed over four dozen retail fonts available from various foundries including The Font Bureau, ITC, Adobe, Monotype/Agfa, FontShop. Samples of his work can be viewed at: www.typedesign.com.