Phronk.com

Category: creative contributions to society

  • Me in Maclean’s, + Wrinkly Nuts

    Sooo there’s an article about me in Maclean’s Magazine (April 12th issue, page 62). It goes like so: Plain old coffee can be boring, so Mike “Phronk” [my last name] of London, Ont., likes to put “weird things” in his (he keeps a blog about it). [etc.] Conspicuously absent? The address of said blog. I…

  • Fonts Don’t Matter

    If you’re a graphic designer, a typographer, or an amateur font enthusiast, this might piss you off. That’s okay. Channel that anger towards flawless kerning. I’ve seen people vomit because the Papyrus font was used for subtitles in Avatar, or get a boner every time a poster is in Helvetica. These people, they know they’re…

  • Faaaaame (FAME), Lets Him Loose, Hard to Swallow

    So I don’t know if all y’all know this, but I’m kind of a big deal. My other blog, Putting Weird Things in Coffee, continues to soar in popularity, bringing me the sweet thrill of hollow attention. Today it’s featured on The Seattle Times’ coffee blog (of course the Seattle Times would have a whole…