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Themes, Motifs, Narratives

15 May 2024

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Send us a textQ: Are there specific themes or motifs that consistently appear in your work, and if so, how do they contribute to the overall narrative...

The Integration of Storytelling into Creative Practice

14 May 2024

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Send us a textQ: How do you integrate storytelling into your creative practice, and what role does it play in shaping your vision?🎙️ In this epi...

Meet the Artists & Designers

13 May 2024

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Send us a textQ: What is your story?🎙️ In this foundational episode, we’ll define ‘story’, explore the importance of centring one’s audi...

Coming Soon: The Art & Design of Storytelling

10 May 2024

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Send us a textOnce upon a time there were 9 creatives in 8 episodes answering 7 questions who were spread out over 6 geographic locations resulting in...

Emerging Typeface Designers Max Berardi & Cecilia Ly

03 May 2024

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Send us a textMeet emerging typeface designers, Max Berardi and Cecilia Ly! Max designed a typeface called League Gothic and Cecilia designed a typefa...

Experimentation, Iteration & Democratization in Font Creation with with Franz Hoffman of Fontself

30 Apr 2024

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Send us a textToday's guest is Franz Hoffman, designer-turned-entrepreneur and cofounder of Fontself, which brings easy type-making capabilities ...

Designing Variable Type with That That Harbor Bickmore

17 Apr 2024

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Send us a textToday’s guest is the best designer in the world! [Source: his website, TheBestDesignerInTheWorld.com] Harbor Bickmore is a graphic de...

Talk Paper and Exacto Knife with Sarah Nguyen

11 Apr 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode you’ll hear artist Sarah Nguyen’s multi-hyphenated career and her role as a life-long learner. Sarah shares the deep...

Exceptionally Experimental, Eclectic and Expressive Exercises with Phong Nguyen

09 Apr 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode you’ll hear author Phong Nguyen’s playful approach to his work that harnesses ‘beginner mind’. You’ll learn mo...

Typefaces of Toronto with Jeremy Gladstone

04 Apr 2024

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Send us a textThere are few things more typographically satisfying than recognizing type in the wild. Gotham over here, Futura over there, Helvetica e...

Constraint and Consistency with Ben O'Neil

03 Apr 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, you’ll meet designer and illustrator, Ben O’Neil, who worked for 70 days to create a typeface based on visual promp...

The 96-Layer Screen Print with Heather J.A. Thomson

27 Mar 2024

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Send us a textThis episode features printmaker, Heather J.A. Thomson, who has created an incredible 96-layer screen printed work that took 1 year with...

My Favourite Practice for Living a Connected Creative Life

26 Mar 2024

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Send us a textThis episode is all about my favourite practice for living a connected creative life: informational interviewing. This episode will help...

Arial: An Incomplete History of Type

15 Mar 2024

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Myriad: An Incomplete History of Type

14 Mar 2024

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Baskerville: An Incomplete History of Type

13 Mar 2024

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Luxurious Letterforms with David Soto

11 Mar 2024

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Send us a textThis is the sixth (bonus!) episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with type professionals all...

Aligning Type and Aligning Values with Melanie Johnsson

08 Mar 2024

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Send us a textThis is the fifth episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with type professionals all over...

Chalk Paper Scissors with Andrea Cataro

05 Mar 2024

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Send us a textThis is the fourth episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 - Advanced Typography, speaking with type professionals all over ...

Nigerian Type Perspectives with Jordan Belonwu

28 Feb 2024

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Send us a textThis is the third episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with type professionals all over the...

Alllllllll the Alphabets with Chris Rouleau

24 Feb 2024

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Send us a textThis is the second episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with type professionals all over th...

Designing with Type for the Entertainment Industry with Chris Ellinas

21 Feb 2024

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Send us a textThis episode is the first in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 - Advanced Typography, speaking with type professionals all over t...

Work and Play and Play and Work with Ryan Kough

14 Feb 2024

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Send us a textRyan Kough is an assistant professor of Integrated Media Arts at Juniata College who believes in design as a community-building tool cre...

Stories on Stories on Stories with Raymond Biesinger

01 Feb 2024

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Send us a textThis episode features Montréal-based illustrator, artist, and best-selling author, Raymond Biesinger!In this conversation, you’ll hea...

Constructing Invert with Anna Khorash

15 Dec 2023

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Send us a textIn this final episode of 2024 you’ll hear from type designer, Anna Korash and her newest experimental typeface, Invert; why it started...

Legibility, Readability and Likeability with Eleni Beveratou, Creative Director Dalton Maag

13 Dec 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode you’ll learn how Eleni Beveratou (Creative Director of Dalton Maag) went from hating type in school to realizing its u...

Fonts for a Connected World with Typotheque's Peter Bil'ak and Kevin King

12 Dec 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode you’ll learn about the Netherlands-based type design company, Typotheque, and you’ll hear from two of its team membe...

Micro + Macro Calendars with Phoebe Todd-Parrish and Ana Rita Morais

08 Dec 2023

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Send us a textWe are 23 days away from 2024 and with me today are two fantastic Toronto-based makers with calendars for us to enjoy all 366 days of th...

Canada's Home for Graphic Designers with RGD's Hilary Ashworth and Nicola Hamilton

05 Dec 2023

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Send us a textThe final stop on our journey hearing from those in industry who make space for others through community-building, we have the Associati...

Living the Goodtype with Katie Johnson and Ilana Griffo

01 Dec 2023

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Send us a textThis is the fifth of 6 episodes where you’ll hear from movers and shakers in the printing, typography and design spaces who make space...

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and The Pile of Bricks

27 Nov 2023

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Send us a textThis is the fourth of 6 episodes where you’ll hear from movers and shakers in the printing, typography and design spaces who make spac...

Preserving Canada's Type History with the Canadian Typography Archives and Sam Archibald

24 Nov 2023

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Send us a textThis is the third of 6 episodes where you’ll hear from movers and shakers in the printing, typography and design spaces who make space...

Podcasting in Printmaking with Hello, Print Friend's Miranda Metcalf

22 Nov 2023

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Send us a textThis is the second of 6 episodes where you’ll hear from movers and shakers in the printing, typography and design spaces who make spac...

Print Isn't Dead with People of Print's Marcroy Smith

20 Nov 2023

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Send us a textThis is the first of 6 episodes where you’ll hear from movers and shakers in the printing, typography and design spaces who make space...

Inspiration 2.0 Featuring MDM 13.0

07 Nov 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode, you’ll meet 6 Master of Digital Media students at Toronto Metropolitan University who share diverse perspectives on t...

Celebrated Book Design with Coralie Bickford-Smith

26 Oct 2023

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Send us a textIn this very special conversation you’ll hear from celebrated illustrator, author, designer and without-a-doubt Book Worm, Coralie Bic...

Barlow: An Incomplete History of Type

13 Oct 2023

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Lo-Res: An Incomplete History of Type

12 Oct 2023

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Impact: An Incomplete History of Type

11 Oct 2023

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Untapped Typographic Potential with Oliver of Pimp My Type

03 Oct 2023

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Send us a textOliver of Pimp My Type is back and he’s here to talk untapped typographic potential! In this conversation, Oliver explains what ‘ty...

Showing Up & Growing Up a Commercial Illustrator with Mr. Tom Froese

21 Sep 2023

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Send us a textMr. Tom Froese is an award-winning illustrator, teacher, and speaker, having worked for brands and businesses all over the world, includ...

An Inclusive Vision for Magazine Publishing with Justine Abigail Yu of Living Hyphen

22 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis is the sixth and final episode in a 6-part series. Here you’ll meet Justine Abigail Yu, Founder of Living Hyphen Magazine, which ...

Pushing the Limits of Magazine Printing with Rich Pauptit of Flash Reproductions

21 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis is the fifth episode in a 6-part series. Here you’ll meet Rich Pauptit, President of Flash Reproductions, who brings beautiful id...

Print Publishing Possibilities with Chris Fraser of Moveable Inc.

20 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis is the fourth episode in a 6-part series. Here you’ll meet Chris Fraser, Chief Finder - Business Development for Toronto-based Pr...

Digital Publishing Possibilities with Audrey Vandenbroeck of Issuu

19 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis is the third episode in a 6-part series. Here you’ll meet Audrey Vandenbroeck, Vice President of Customer Success at Issuu. If yo...

Macro Trends in Magazine Publishing with James Hewes of FIPP

16 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis is the second episode in a 6-part series. Here you’ll meet James Hewes, CEO of FIPP, a global magazine industry organization. You...

Micro Trends in Magazine Publishing with Nicola Hamilton of Issues

15 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThis episode is the first in a 6-part series in magazine production and publishing. Here you’ll meet Nicola Hamilton, Toronto-based ma...

Art Meets Science for Better Tomorrows with Camilo Saenz and Kristin Lewis

13 Jun 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode you'll meet Camilo Saenz and Kristin Lewis who are using their talents for graphic design, videography and photogra...

Live From Podcamp 2023: Break All the Rules

05 Jun 2023

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Send us a textRecorded at Podcamp 2023, here’s a talk about breaking all the rules in podcasting: “By day, Diana teaches students within The Creat...

Emerging Typeface Designers Nicole Galindo & Cameron Mady

30 May 2023

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Send us a textMeet emerging typeface designers, Nicole Galindo and Cameron Mady! You’ll learn about their original typeface designs (Dogggo and Perp...

Brand New: Identity Design for Medieval Torture Devices

17 May 2023

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Send us a textThis is the final episode in the Brand New series where you’ll hear from Richard Nalli-Petta of Parcel in Toronto chat about his work ...

Brand New: Design for Social Good with Loop

15 May 2023

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Send us a textWelcome to the second episode in our Brand New series all about brand identity design. Today’s episode features the passionate and tal...

Brand New: Meg!

10 May 2023

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Send us a textIt’s Meg! Meg Lewis is a designer, illustrator, artist and all-around creative. In this conversation, Meg and Diana get delightfully w...

Aurelie Maron, Lettering Artist

28 Apr 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode, you’ll meet Aurelie Maron, a full-time lettering artist and teacher based out of the Gold Coast, Australia. You’ll ...

Jorge Gomez of The Money Studio

19 Apr 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode, you’ll meet Jorge Gomez, a brand strategist and graffiti writer based out of Inglewood, CA. You’ll hear about Jorge...

Put Me In the Zoo (Part 2!)

06 Apr 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode close to Diana’s heart released on what would have been her Dad’s 69th birthday, hear them read a favourite children...

Heart-Centredness in the Classroom and Beyond with Dr. Robyn Bourgeois

05 Apr 2023

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Send us a textIn this final conversation of the series, academic, author, artist and activist, Dr. Robyn Bourgeois (Laughing Otter Caring Woman) share...

The Future of Design Education with Dr. Ana Rita Morais

28 Mar 2023

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Send us a textIn this conversation, design education leader, Dr. Ana Rita Morais, shares her vision for the future. She gives us a peek into the ways ...

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Education with Gail-Ann Wilson Mitchell

15 Feb 2023

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Send us a textIn this intimate conversation, cultural diversity educator Gail-Ann Wilson Michell shares her reality growing up ‘being the only’; a...

Book BIG MAGIC

24 Jan 2023

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Send us a textIn this episode, Diana shares her week of serendipitous BIG MAGIC centered around books while she was filming her Domestika course in Ne...

Gratitude and Failure

15 Dec 2022

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Send us a textIn this final episode of 2022, Diana reflects on the best parts of producing a podcast and how statistics alone can’t capture the whol...

Pairing Type with Oliver of Pimp My Type

13 Dec 2022

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Send us a textWelcome Oliver Schöndorfer of Pimp My Type! In this episode you’ll hear Oliver’s approach to pairing type, a helpful framework to t...

Inspiration Framework: Time to ACE It

12 Dec 2022

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Send us a textThe final episode in a 3-part mini series focused on the topic of ‘inspiration’, Diana dishes up her thoughts on the topic of inspir...

Inspiration Matters Featuring MDM 11.0

15 Nov 2022

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Send us a textThe second episode in a 3-part mini series focused on the topic of ‘inspiration’, Diana sits down with a panel of 5 Master of Digita...

Inspiration and Digital Media with Reilly Stephens of Pinterest

09 Nov 2022

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Send us a textThe first episode in a 3-part mini series focused on the topic of ‘inspiration’, Diana sits down with Reilly Stephens, Creative Stra...

Graphic Design is Fun Meets Talk Paper Scissors

27 Oct 2022

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Send us a textThis is a very special crossover episode between Talk Paper Scissors and the Graphic Design is Fun podcast where Diana and Canadian grap...

Geometos: An Incomplete History of Type

25 Oct 2022

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Proxima Nova: An Incomplete History of Type

24 Oct 2022

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

ITC Benguiat: An Incomplete History of Type

14 Oct 2022

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Times New Roman: An Incomplete History of Type

06 Oct 2022

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Gill Sans: An Incomplete History of Type

24 Sep 2022

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Bodoni: An Incomplete History of Type

09 Sep 2022

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

Didot: An Incomplete History of Type

06 Sep 2022

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Send us a textFrom the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer ...

I Didn't Do The Thing Today with Madeleine Dore

30 Jun 2022

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Send us a textIn this perspective-shifting episode, Madeleine Dore (author of I Didn’t Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt) chats a...

Mags 2022: Printing Magazines with Steph Beveridge of Hemlock Printers

24 Jun 2022

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Send us a textListen in on TMU’s Magazine Production & Publishing class in Spring 2022…In this final episode in a 3-part series about magazine...

Mags 2022: Designing Magazines with Lonelle Selbo of LIFE AU LAIT

23 Jun 2022

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Send us a textListen in on TMU’s Magazine Production & Publishing class in Spring 2022…In this second episode in a 3-part series about magazin...

Mags 2022: Publishing Magazines with Greg Davis of Melanistic Magazine

22 Jun 2022

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Send us a textListen in on TMU’s Magazine Production & Publishing class in Spring 2022…In this conversation, we welcome Greg Davis, Publisher ...

Big Emotions in Creative Living with Lisa Anchin, Picture Book Author & Artist

21 Jun 2022

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Send us a textIn this final conversation in the mini series about big emotions in creative living, you will hear from children’s book author and ill...

Big Emotions in Creative Living with Jamie Roberts of Rock That Creative Job

20 Jun 2022

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Send us a textIn this episode about big emotions in creative living, you’ll meet Jamie Roberts of Rock That Creative Job and learn how she helps sup...

Big Emotions in Creative Living with Nicola Hamilton and LeeAndra Cianci of The Scaries

17 Jun 2022

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Send us a textIn this first episode in a mini series all about big emotions in creative living, you’ll hear what The Scaries is all about, how it ev...

Font Futures: Indigenous Syllabic Type Revitalization with Kevin King

16 Jun 2022

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Send us a textWelcome to the future… FONT FUTURES!In this episode, we meet Toronto-based type designer, Kevin King, who is working to revitalize and...

Font Futures: Variable Font Technology with Charles Nix of Monotype

15 Jun 2022

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Send us a textWelcome to the future… FONT FUTURES!Today’s guest is the legendary Charles Nix, Creative Type Director at Monotype. In the following...

Font Futures: Emerging Typeface Designers Nate Evangelista & Sarah Zahavi

14 Jun 2022

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Send us a textWelcome to the future… FONT FUTURES!In this first of three episodes in the series, you’ll meet emerging typeface designers Nate Evan...

The Little Friends of Printmaking!

03 Jun 2022

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Send us a textWelcome The Little Friends of Printmaking, JW and Melissa Buchanan! This silkscreening duo of printmakers, illustrators and designers fr...