All Episodes
Creative Characters — 110 episodes
John Trauscht on what it takes to design at Pixar.
The Stone Twins on craft, conflict, and creative chemistry.
Sofie Beier breaks down legibility for designers.
Finding your creative voice with Goodtype.
How type design changed everything for Magdalena Arasanz.
Signal Type: Crafting letters with passion and precision.
Shaping Thai type and design with Cadson Demak.
Designing the future with Malcolm Garrett.
Tackling climate change with creativity, with Bruce Mau Design.
The fun of finding fonts at Adobe MAX 2025.
Balancing expressiveness and readability with Cyla Costa.
Connecting people to places with Joy Nazzari.
Type, travel, and togetherness with Veronika Burian.
Designing community and culture with Cihan Tamti.
Reprint: Getting into the 'heavy stuff' with Aaron Draplin.
From passion to Pink Pony with Kristy Campbell.
Inside Tipoteca Italiana with Sandro Berra.
From Tennessee to typography with David Jon Walker.
Reprint: Irreverent type design with James Edmondson.
Designing beyond trends with Alex Swatridge of DutchScot.
Bryan Edmondson on crafting simplicity.
Reprint: Waves of summer inspiration.
Sara Soskolne: A life shaped by letters.
Women of Type: Crafting Community with Jess Goldsmith.
Trevor Jackson: How to remix your career and stay independent.
How Kris Andrew Small found his groove: movement, color, and making art that matters.
From Biden to Harris: rebranding at lightning speed with Shar Biggers.
Re:Vision 2025: Shaping the future through design.
Nerding out on 3D type and creativity with Taekyeom Lee.
You're going to need a passport: Simon Waterfall on sharpening and expanding your design practice.
Cat How on building a branding agency that stands out.
Kelli Anderson on the art and power of papercraft.
Searching for our inner child at Adobe MAX 2024.
Exploring the American design story behind Field Notes with Jim Coudal.
Never snap to guides: Exploring creative freedom with David Carson.
Embracing Chaos and Stillness: Astrid Stavro's Design Philosophy.
Revisiting Scott Starrett and how to design a visually stunning political campaign.
From Parsons to Type Thursday: a conversation with Thomas Jockin.
Kyle Read on the art (of the business) of type design.
Behind the Font: Font Licensing, demystified (Part 3 of 3).
Behind the Font: Font Licensing, demystified (Part 2 of 3).
Behind the Font: Font Licensing, demystified (Part 1 of 3).
The power of initiative: Kat Romulo on following your creative passions.
Lee Yuen-Rapati on the typography and design of watches.
Beyond Mexico '68: Lance Wyman's world of design.
Reinventing yourself at any age with Vic Lee.
Petra Dočekalová on the influence of history in modern design.
Live from SXSW: A branding masterclass with Dentsu, eBay, Neurons, and WeTransfer.
Searching for signs of the British seaside with Justin Burns.
Studying the subconscious superpowers of type trends across the globe.
Talking type that melts in your heart (not in your hand) with Steffi Marty.
Behind the 2024 Type Trends report with Jordan Bell and Damien Collot.
Studios we love: the stories of ArrowType, Type Salon, and Blaze Type.
Roger Black and Charles Nix trace the history of type.
Celebrating community, embracing vulnerability, and fostering self-discovery at Adobe MAX 2023.
Exploring the fluorescent legacy of Baltimore's Globe Collection and Press with Allison Tipton.
What our emotions can teach us about design and branding.
Talking shop with David Berlow, type hero and font technology pioneer.
From Basquiat to branding: how Erwin Hines creates space for community, dialogue, and collective liberation.
Chasing Dreams and Making Them Real with Muralist Kent Yoshimura.
From magazine to brand design with Warby Parker's Sarah Olin.
Goodbye, zombie bosses: Making WFH work for creatives with Upwork's Patrick Holly.
Finding the "feels" with Picsart's Scott Walker.
Studios we love: the stories of CoType, Naïma Ben Ayed Bureau, and XYZ Type.
Big brands, big ideas, and big breaks with Tongal's James DeJulio.
Exploring all things novel and familiar with Mark Simonson.
Bringing design to the masses with Canva's Andrew Green.
Changing the game with Maureen Raisch.
Making the Monotype Type Trends report with Terrance Weinzierl and Emilios Theofanous.
Getting into the 'heavy stuff' with Aaron Draplin.
Iterative, content-first design with In-House International.
Jim Moran – Preserving print history at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
Elliot Jay Stocks - Navigating a Universe of Type.
'Live' from Adobe MAX, this week's guest is: You!
Craig Ward: From metal type to the digital unknown.
Annie Atkins: Building worlds in film through graphic props and typography.
Holly Fraser – Winning Oscars and attention with a purpose-driven brand.
Mindy Seu - Gathering 30 years of cyberfeminism.
Jason Debiak - Let's start a design agency from scratch.
Ximena Amaya – A recent graduate on the role of design in communication, architecture, and protest.
Sarah Boris – On the power of defining yourself as a creative.
Nathan Lance - How to build an (authentic) sustainable brand.
Andrew Krivine and Michael Worthington - How punk and new wave turned design on its head.
Cristina Pandol - A creative's road to 'Bel-Air.'
Juan Villanueva - Cultivating a global community through type.
Jennifer Sagalyn & JoAnn Becker - On building an accessible, inclusive digital world.
David Sheldon-Hicks - The designs behind blockbuster moviemaking magic.
Greg Lutze - The power of creative community.
Dewey Saunders - Career collage, or: Flip your aesthetic.
Andrew van der Merwe - Ephemeral calligraphy from the beaches of South Africa.
Adam Weiler - Rethinking design thinking for a changed world.
Chelsea Goldwell - Hard-won lessons on balance, health, and nurturing creativity.
Dave Addey - Classic sci-fi films and the typography that brought them to life.
Ellen Lupton - On mentorship, relationships of equality, and representation in design.
Tyler Haughey - Neon and nostalgia down on the unseen Jersey Shore.
James Horwitz - Bold type and big ideas from a cutting edge design mind.
Dan Black & Jes Seamans - DIY printmaking from the edges of America (and several Midwestern basements).
Michael Johnson - Design with a purpose.
James Edmondson - Let the design be what it wants to become.
Lauren Hom - There is no recipe for reinvention.
Hannelore Ocampo - How type keeps your car (and eyes) on the road.
Angelina Lippert - Charting the human experience through poster design.
John Norman - Visual storytelling for the masses.
Sarah Hyndman - Celebrating typography, one taste (???) at a time.
Chris Do - Can creatives make a living doing what they love? (Spoiler: yes.)
Terrence Williams - The beauty and power of embracing identity in the workplace.
Tré Seals - Telling true stories through type.
Jenna Blazevich - Punk rock activism, one chain-stitched letter at a time.
Scott Starrett - Designing an authentic, memorable, winning (and now iconic) political identity.
James Sommerville - Let's reimagine how creative work gets done, shall we?