Creative Characters Podcast.

Doug Wilson catches up with Kelli Anderson about her forthcoming typography pop-up book, her passion for teaching design with tactile objects, and her love of all things paper. Tune in now.

Listen in for a behind-the-scenes look at Adobe MAX 2024. Tune in now to hear from twenty or so voices at MAX, all of whom were kind enough to share their time and their stories with us on the mic. 

Here’s the story of Field Notes, in all of its 3½ × 5½-inch glory, from co-founder Jim Coudal. Tune in now. No need to take notes (unless you want to, of course).

This week on Creative Characters, host Graham Sturt sits down with graphic design icon and the father of grunge typography, David Carson. Tune in now.

This week, Monotype’s Executive Creative Director, Tom Foley, sits down with renowned graphic designer Astrid Stavro to explore her captivating journey. Tune in now.

This week on Creative Characters, host Charles Nix sits down with Thomas Jockin, the founder of Type Thursday, a global type meetup. Tune in for an interesting look at the intersection of type design, education, and community-building.

Host Doug Wilson sits down with his long-time friend, Kyle Read, a distinguished type designer and graphic designer based in Denver, Colorado. Kyle shares his journey from studying at the Savannah College of Art and Design, working for various design studios and advertising agencies, to founding Badson Type Foundry. Tune in to hear Kyle’s story.

In part 3 of Behind the Font, our Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Phil Carey-Bergren, and host, Carl Unger, discuss the implications of breaching font licenses, the significance of copyright, and what to do if you accidentally breach a contract or misuse a font license. Tune in now.

In part 2 of Behind the Font, our Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Phil Carey-Bergren, and host, Carl Unger, dissect the main parts of a font license and walk us through some common font licensing use cases you might see at work. Tune in now.

In the first-ever edition of our new podcast miniseries series Behind the Font, we dive in to the often murky and mysterious waters of font licensing. In part one, we get a crash course in recent font history to understand how licenses have evolved and why this matters to today’s brands, designers, and agencies. Tune in now.

This week, we take you behind the scenes of one of Monotype’s biggest, and most anticipated campaigns of the year: the annual Type Trends report. Tune in to hear from the report’s curators, Creative Type Directors Terrance Weinzierl and Emilios Theofanous on their experiences producing the report.

We are thrilled to have Aaron Draplin on the podcast this week and to dig into the “heavy stuff” with him – existential musings on life and building a career, the importance of hanging on to your inner kid, and the “weird little spot” he’s in as he approaches 50 turns around the sun.

Monotype’s Executive Creative Director, Charles Nix, speaks with guests Michu Benaim Steiner and Lope Gutierrez-Ruiz, about their Texas-based design studio, In-House International. They’ve done type work for over 100 clients, and their typeface Perfora was recently featured in Monotype’s Type Trends Report. Keep reading for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process.

In our first episode of Season 3, we welcome the new Senior Director of the Monotype Studio, Tom Rickner, as a first-time host. Tom speaks with Jim Moran, master printer and collections officer for the internationally-known Hamilton Wood Type Museum. Keep reading for a glimpse into the museum’s history and to learn why the letterpress is still so important today.

Elliot Jay Stocks, designer and musician, joined us on the podcast this week to speak about passion projects. Known for his typography work, Elliot is a freelance designer and was previously Creative Director at Adobe Typekit. Today, he’s working with Google on Google Fonts Knowledge. 

Cette semaine, l’animateur Charles Nix s’est assis avec Craig pour parler de sa carrière, de ses innombrables projets parallèles et de ses passe-temps excentriques. Ensemble, ils ont aussi évoqué comment la technologie pourrait révolutionner l’utilisation des polices de caractères et garantir les droits de propriété intellectuelle des designers.

Dans Creative Characters, nous rencontrons des personnes créatives qui œuvrent à mi-chemin entre la typographie et la vie courante. Vous pouvez écouter l’épisode ci-dessous ou sur Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, et partout où des podcasts de qualité sont disponibles.

Aujourd’hui, nous accueillons Holly Fraser, rédactrice en chef de WePresent, la plateforme artistique numérique de WeTransfer, qui travaille avec plus de 1000 créateurs de plus de 100 pays. Elle a fait partie de l’équipe qui a commandé le court-métrage d’action en prise de vues réelles The Long Goodbye, créé par Riz Ahmed et Aneil Karia, récompensé par un Oscar en 2022

Dans Creative Characters, nous rencontrons des personnes créatives qui œuvrent à mi-chemin entre la typographie et la vie courante. Vous pouvez écouter l’épisode ci-dessous ou sur Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, et partout où des podcasts de qualité sont disponibles.

Cette semaine, nous accueillons Jason Debiak. Ami de Carl, notre coanimateur de Creative Characters, il est aussi cofondateur de Paper Tiger, une agence de design familiale. Jason dirige l’agence aux côtés de son frère, créant des designs pour des sites Web et des applications mobiles conviviales tout en s’amusant comme un fou. 

Cette semaine, nous nous entretenons avec Ximena Amaya, originaire de Mexico City et récemment diplômée du ArtCenter à Pasadena en Californie. Écoutez Kadley Gosselin, responsable de la stratégie de contenu chez Monotype, s’entretenir avec Ximena. Ensemble, ils évoquent les raisons qui l’ont amenée à étudier le design, son désir d’utiliser la typographie comme outil de protestation et son travail d’exposition sur les technologies émergentes en tant que stagiaire chez Pentagram.

Aujourd’hui, nous accueillons Sarah Boris, une artiste et designer basée à Londres qui dirige son propre studio de création. La créativité semble faire partie de son ADN. Marie Boulanger, brand designer chez Monotype, parle avec Sarah de son expérience dans le domaine des arts.

L’invité de cette semaine se passionne pour le design du changement. Aujourd’hui, nous accueillons Nathan Lance, directeur de la création chez Leap, une agence de design certifiée B Corp, située à Truro en Angleterre. Nathan est ici pour nous éclairer sur le design écologique, la durabilité et la transparence des marques.

Cette semaine, nous accueillons la créatrice primée Cristina Pandol, vice-présidente de la création chez Westbrook Media, une entreprise de divertissement fondée par Will Smith et Jada Pinkett Smith. Bill Connolly s’entretient avec Cristina sur ses expériences en tant que créatrice, de ses origines multiculturelles à son allergie éphémère au divertissement.

This week’s episode features the first ever guest from Monotype, our very own Juan Villanueva, a senior type designer on the studio team. Outside of the work he does designing typefaces for clients like M&M’s, Tencent and Google, Juan leads a busy life as an educator and active member of the design community in NYC. Listen to the episode for more.

This week’s guests are Jennifer Sagalyn, Director of Strategic Partnerships, and Joanne Becker, Assistive Technology Support, Training and Testing Specialist at Perkins Access. Perkins Access is an organization whose mission is to build a more accessible digital world for all people, regardless of their abilities.

In this week’s episode, Phil Garnham talks with schoolmate David Sheldon-Hicks, the co-founder and Executive Creative Director of Territory Studio, a design firm that has worked on the veritable who’s-who of recent blockbuster films and video games.

This week, our host Bill Connolly chats with new media creative, Greg Lutze. Greg founded VSCO and Plaza, and is an advisor and artist based out of California.

In this week’s episode, Monotype Senior Content Strategist Kadley Gosselin is joined by  Dewey Bryan Saunders, the designer behind album covers for artists like Anderson .Paak, Future, and Turnstile.

In the first episode of Season 2, Carl Unger sits down with calligrapher, letter artist and “beachscriber,” Andrew van der Merwe from Cape Town, South Africa. 

In this week’s episode, Monotype Type Director, Terrance Weinzierl has an inspiring conversation with designer, educator, and design thinker, Adam Weiler, who currently leads the social innovation program at Steelcase, a furniture company founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

In this episode, our own Bill Connolly is joined by Chelsea Goldwell, partner and creative director at Zero Studios, a digitally-native branding studio. Goldwell reflects on her trajectory in design and shares her perspectives on finding balance in this era of intense work.  

In our eighteenth episode, Terrance Weinzierl, Creative Type Director at Monotype, talks with Dave Addey, author of Typeset in the Future. Dave work explores type and design choices in sci-fi movies, a fun crossover that has drawn a remarkably big audience.

In our this week’s episode, Monotype’s Brand Designer, Marie Boulanger talks with Ellen Lupton, writer, curator, educator, and designer. They discuss her recent book, Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers, and Lupton’s mission to democratize type through teaching, collaborating, and writing. 

In our sixteenth episode, we talk with Tyler Haughey, a photographer whose work highlights otherwise unseen details of Jersey shore beach towns in the off-season. He discusses the creative influence of having a father who was a sign painter, as well as the nature of memory and how signage and décor help anchor experiences in our minds.  

This week, Creative Type Director Charles Nix talks to James Horowitz during a London heatwave about the lessons he learned from founding a design agency, his approach to guiding clients through the creative process, and the impact of Instagram and social media on branding and design.

This week’s guests are Jessica Seamans and Dan Black, who together comprise Landland. We discuss their early days of going to (and playing in) DIY punk shows, how screenprinting keeps you humble, and the evolving relationship between music and the art of the poster.

In our twelfth episode, Creative Type Director Charles Nix speaks with James Edmondson, founder of OH no Type Company in California. James shares how he got his start in typography, as well as his perspective on designing a fulfilling creative career.

In episode 11, Monotype’s Jay Loo interviews Lauren Hom, celebrated designer and hand-lettering artist. The two discuss how to build a creative career, and Lauren shares a new passion she is preparing to pursue.

In episode 10, Creative Type Director Terrance Weinzierl interviews Hannelore Ocampo, Fonts Lead and Type Specialist at Ford Motor Company. The two discuss how to develop a cohesive in-car experience that reflects the needs of modern transportation.

Creative Type Director Charles Nix talks with Angelina Lippert, Chief Curator at the Posterhouse museum in New York City, about the history of poster design, the unseen hands behind some of the more iconic posters from history, and the finicky wonder of Rubylith.

Our guest in episode eight was John Norman, a celebrated visual storyteller and former Chief Creative Officer of world-renowned creative agencies like Translation, The Martin Agency, and most recently, Havas Chicago.

In episode seven we talked with Sarah Hyndman, founder of Type Tasting and the author of several books, including Why Fonts Matter and How to Draw Fonts and Influence People.

In episode six we talked with Chris Do, award-winning designer, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform that teaches creatives how to make a living doing what they love.

In episode five we talked with Terrence Williams, Senior Design Lead at Salesforce, who discusses the emergence of relationship design, and shares why it is important for people to bring their full identities into their work.

In episode four we talked with Tré Seals, founder of Vocal Type, about his efforts to break down stereotypes in design and how a middle-school side gig, born out of a brush with serious childhood medical issues, helped him become the artist he is today.

In episode three we talked with Chicago-based lettering artist Jenna Blazevich, about chain stitching, punk rock, intersectional feminism, and whatever the heck Malört is.

In our second episode, Monotype Creative Type Director Charles Nix talked with Scott Starret, co-founder of the design studio Tandem NYC, about serendipity and the experience of designing for a transformational political candidate.

In our first episode, we talked with James Sommerville, co-founder of KNOWN_UNKOWN, about his ideas for the future of creative work, community, and work/life balance in a post-pandemic world.