I’ll be speaking at this month’s Type Directors Club Type Salon —Thursday, March 19 at 6:00 pm.

By which I mean to say: boy oh boy, is it still winter. Nearly eight years in New York, and I’m still amazed at how cold and dark it can get just before spring.

That was a rather long moment, so this is a brief catch-up post with some of the high points. We had an extremely busy autumn.

Rather than make a joke about kittens testing well with art directors (too late?), I’ll introduce the newest, littlest members of our team: Gretchen & Igor, who come to us from a fantastic animal rescue in Ozone Park, Queens.

The fall semester hit like a tidal wave — three classes at Parsons and a substitute gig at SVA. About halfway through the semester, we took nearly-concurrent field trips to Green-Wood Cemetery.

In Prospect Park, Joyce and Rob tied the knot in the presence of their mothers; Joyce’s orchids went home to Williamsburg; the cacti got new pots at Christmas. The radiators came on, heralded by the unmistakable smell of missing artwork proofs.

Eben Sorkin stopped by on his way from Anchorage to Reading. Eben Keun and his colleagues came to town for an AIGA conference; I missed them, but Nick treated them to what I’m told was a nice cup of coffee at the new restaurant on the corner.

Parsnip would like everyone to know that she was a blue elephant for Halloween.

I’m teaching two classes at Parsons this semester, and we’re in the middle of several super-fun projects. More (more frequent, more typographic) updates, soon.

Welcome to our new website, and to the studio weblog! Thus far, the blog has been stocked with some of the projects and font sightings we’d meant to post to the old site; starting next week, we’ll be blogging studio life from our headquarters in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

What’s new:

• our newest release: Jubilat, a joyous slab serif;

• Freight in OpenType format, with retooled spacing and a new Semibold weight;

• Birra, a free font.

Thanks for visiting, and please drop us a line to say hello!

Mucca’s rebranding of this ginger liqueur incorporates an as-yet unreleased series of fonts. I hear it makes a pretty darn spectacular martini.