Mat Voyce

Yeah, it was unreal.

And I had no idea how even some of my closest design friends have struggled with anxiety.

And I've had to try medication to see if it helps them and to improve them.

It was eye-opening because, again, you don't see that top level on Instagram and socials.

And it is like that Instagram versus reality, but not even in the sense of someone might be doing great work for great clients, but...

Yeah, you don't know what goes on behind the scenes and you don't know what the reality of it is.

And if people keep posting out like the good stuff and the positivity, then that's great.

But you don't necessarily know that someone struggles with something.

And you can open up these conversations and these dialogues with people that you might have known for years, but you just never touched on that subject or that side of life.

And it's eye opening and it's reassuring and it's a really good thing.

I think it really is.

Thanks for having me.

What do you do?

I'm a type animator who started out as a graphic designer who trained in illustration but has combined all of those experiences to lead into moving type and to give typography and words and letters personalities and characters and to make them feel relatable and human.

and as if they have their own emotions as such, and that can then help trigger how you feel towards them and how you perceive them when you see them on screen.

In school, graphic design was my best subject and my best region of learning.

And that went through to like art college and then to university and college.

Throughout university, I was very middle ground.

I didn't really excel in anything apart from just being middle of the crowd.

And that kind of followed through to when I left university as well.