An Ohio native,
Mikey Burton proudly describes his design aesthetic as “Midwesterny” and draws much of his inspiration from artifacts found throughout the hardworking, blue-collar Rust Belt: old type-specimen sheets, arcane equipment manuals and ancient textbooks. Burton has received awards from
Communication Arts,
Graphis,
HOW,
Print and ADC Young Guns. He is now a freelancer in sunny Philadelphia where he designs and illustrates for such clients as the
New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, the
Atlantic,
Newsweek,
GOOD,
Wired and Facebook.