I've been working on a trilogy of animated shorts for Veer, and we just posted the second instalment, Ready, Typeset, Go!. You'll learn about things like kerning and font families, while lulled by the friendly drone of our narrator (who we sourced through VOX Talent). If you missed the first film, check out Our Fonts, Our Friends. The third is on its way!

Veer's creative team is closing up shop at year-end, but not before a few last feats of strength. The slideshow we made to showcase Ale Paul's Poem Script is headed for Typography Annual 2 — the January/February 2012 issue of Communication Arts. Behold terrible things set in lovely type, featuring my writing, design by Drew Ng, and the mechanical stylings of Mr. Stephen Peasley.

The ladies of Edmonton studio Woodward Design — Amanda Woodward and Kristin Gibson — launched their side project The Hee Haw Collective a couple months ago, and yesterday they decorated Edmonton with the first batch of posters created by local designers.

I'm not local or a designer, but I did get to participate from the comfort of my living room. Two of my Twitter outbursts were included in the mix, beautified by Amanda and Kristin themselves. See those below, then head over to the Hee Haw site to see all the posters.

You can put a lot of things on the internet before something goes viral. So here's the best thing until the next thing. Clockbusters is a game that Dan Parry and I created for Veer to showcase royalty-free stock photos.  With 3 photo clues and 60 seconds on the clock, the goal is name the movie before time runs out. As of today, over 1.1 million people have played the game and its sequel.

A few hundred of those have commented online about there being no answer key provided — that was my call, folks. Answer keys are for babies and quitters, and you are neither! You are a champion! Pep talk over.

See some more of the game in my portfolio, or better, go play.

A little something I wrote to promote Laura Varsky's Lade Rene typeface.

Beneath the glossy, time-worn veneer of these 1950s book covers is a wealth of absolutely nothing. The books exist only as covers that designer Dan Parry and I put together for a slideshow promoting the FilmoType font collection. Choosing books as the medium let us steer clear of diner culture, greasers, and rock & roll, and delve a little deeper into the era. An homage to The Hardy Boys made the cut, and my visit to the Atomic Testing Museum turned up as a fallout shelter manual for “living forever and ever with your nuclear family”.

As far as career highlights go, I can't think of much better than being in a boardroom explaining how “invisibility pants” would hide your legs, but “invisible pants” would show your everything.

I used to work with a curmudgeon who would lament ever new idea by saying “Ideas equal work”. To which I would always reply “And work equals fun!”.

Last I heard, that guy didn't end up doing anything interesting. And he would have hated this set of Work & Play notebooks that Vancouver designer Drew Ng and I came up with.

If you're out of Field Notes, Scout Books, and Moleskine Cahiers, and you've depleted that stack of foolscap you've been hoarding since elementary school, you can pick up a set of these over there for $10.

I couldn't decide on a song to lay over top of my Antarctica videos, so instead I used sound clips from The Shawshank Redemption. Because nothing says Antarctica like penguins and the disembodied voice of Morgan Freeman. Enjoy!

Being a hobo is hard work (I imagine) but so is going to the office everyday. That's why fellow hobologist Darcy Whiteside and I have devised the Office Worker Hobo Code, to help you help each other. Arm yourself with a Sharpie and Post-Its, then tag areas of your office to share your knowledge.

Then tag your own workspace with three free wallpapers for your computer or iPhone.