{"id":2010,"date":"2011-04-01T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/official_busine\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:56:28","slug":"official_busine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/official_busine\/","title":{"rendered":"Official business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April Fool&#8217;s Day<\/strong> is probably a bad time to make a major announcement, but I swear this one is for real. As of today, I am employed full-time as a senior type designer at <a href=\"http:\/\/monotypeimaging.com\">Monotype Imaging<\/a>, based out of our office in Salfords, a bit south of London. (I live and spend most of the time working in London itself, however.) I will probably spend most of my time for the next few months continuing to work on Indic typefaces, and doing a bit more speaking about type design and typography. And actually getting paid for it. Is that awesome or what?<\/p>\n<p>Hooray! Did you know that I&#8217;ve spent the last few months whining about my work visa issues, and living back in New York while I waited for all this to fall into place? After working for two years on a collaborative project between Monotype and the <a href=\"http:\/\/reading.ac.uk\/typography\">University of Reading<\/a>, and then waiting for the visa stuff to get sorted, I feel like I have finally completed the longest job interview of my life. I am relieved, and excited.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sparky typefaces\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/sparky_typefaces.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"640\"><\/p>\n<p>[Note: This is as good a time as any to point out that this is my personal web site, though, where I generally speak off the cuff, and occasionally talk some shit. Those opinions are mine, not the company&#8217;s. Obviously.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Fool&#8217;s Day is probably a bad time to make a major announcement, but I swear this one is for real. As of today, I am employed full-time as a senior type designer at Monotype Imaging, based out of our office in Salfords, a bit south of London. (I live and spend most of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/official_busine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Official business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71105,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/71105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}