Jan 24, 2026
IN PRAISE OF NOSTALGIA It’s a strategy that’s served me well. I was astounded by Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It gave me the kind of chills usually experienced from witnessing stellar performance in sports or the arts, but rarely in...
Dec 31, 2025
TOP TEN 2025 It’s been a busy year! Creating for social media is a bit of a grind, and a lot of work for something so ephemeral—but I love doing it, especially as I’m collaborating with my daughter Zoë Shinn. 1. BEST SELLING TYPEFACE Once again it’s the Aptly...
Dec 15, 2025
Type Faces for Display, Hazel Watson & Viney, Aylesbury, 1955. The five classic f‑ligatures are shown in Garamond, Mono Series 156. Note also the quaints (ct and st). A different kind of pangram I had thought that Prokofiev was spelled with a “v”...
Nov 24, 2025
TEXT HEAVY An exhibition of typefaces Text Heavy: The Art of Type Design by Nick Shinn Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 50 Sussex Drive, Ottawa 10 am – 4 pm, closed Sundays November 14–28, 2025 I was inducted into the Academy in 2019, and now there’s a show of my work...
Sep 20, 2025
Jack Pine, by Tom Thomson, (1916–17). Oil on canvas; 127.9 × 139.8 cm. Photographed at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa by Karey Shinn, with an iPhone. The circular shape behind me is a modification to the original photo, more closely representing the...
