He has designed several proprietary typefaces for Hallmark that are used on a range of products, such as greeting cards, books, films and packaging.
The Proverbial Bestiary, features proverbs hand-lettered by Cusick and paired with drawings by the late Warren Chappell, which was a Book of the Month Club bonus selection.
He has written articles for Fine Print, Calligraphy Review, Alphabet, ABC-XYZapf, and Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age.
Cusick is proprietor of Nyx Editions, which has created a range of books and pamphlets regarding the lettering arts including OK, It's All Yours: Recollections of Arnold Bank, and Type Fa*ce*tious: Earth-shattering quotations featuring the font designs of Jill Bell.
This beautifully illustrated book, published by RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press in December, 2011, is a tribute to Zapf’s own philosophy that the artist’s challenge is “to ensure, despite technology and mass production, that beauty is never lost.”[5] Cusick's work has appeared in numerous group shows in museums and galleries worldwide, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, London, New Delhi, Offenbach, Tallinn and Moscow.