NeXTSTEP platform. Over the next 14 months, successive commercial versions were released, including a web-page editor. However, the small NeXTSTEP installed base was insufficient to support the company, and it closed its doors in mid-1995. Upon the closing of Pages Software in 1995, Parker licensed the Pages patent to Design Intelligence in Seattle and joined the company as an in-house consultant. In 2000, Design Intelligence was bought by Microsoft. With that, Parker had come full circle, he had completed a process that began with Gutenberg's transformation of flexible but laborious calligraphy into modular fonts of movable type, and ended with similar digital modules of expert design that guide all aspects of a whole document's appearance. In 1994, Parker published evidence that the design of Times New Roman, credited to Stanley Morison in 1931 was based on Starling Burgess' 1904 drawings for Lanston Monotype Foundry. This publication attracted the attention of Roger Black, noted design director and former avid Linotype customer, and David Berlow former colleague at both Linotype and Bitstream. Parker joined their co-founded company, the Font Bureau, as a Consultant, Type Historian and Type Designer. In 2009, Parker released "Starling", a Roman font with a matching italic series based on the 1904 design of William Starling Burgess. Parker died on February 23, 2014. Timeline 1951: BA Architecture, Yale University 1952–1954: US Army Korea 1956 MFA: Graphic School of Design, Yale University 1956–1957: Typographic Project for I.M. Pei 1957–1959: Plantin Moretus Museum, Antwerp 1959–1981: Mergenthaler Linotype Company 1981–1987: Bitstream Inc. 1987–1989: The Company 1990–1995: Pages Software, Inc. 1996–1999: Design Intelligence, Inc. 2000–2014: Font Bureau References Other source Interview, September 2010, recorded by Frank Romano, RIT Professor Emeritus, detailed Parker's life and work. External links Biography of Mike Parker 1929 births 2014 deaths American typographers and type designers Designers from London Yale University alumni British emigrants to the United States