Type resources for designers and brand owners
Creative Characters S1 E7: Sarah Hyndman: Celebrating typography, one taste (???) at a time.
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.
Creative Characters S1 E6: Chris Do: Can creatives make a living doing what they love? (Spoiler: yes.)
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.
Five Minutes with Phil Garnham.
Phil Garnham, Creative Type Director at Monotype, speaks to Transform magazine about the importance of typeface in branding and the growing significance within the mobile platform. Phil discusses Monotype’s recent collaboration with creative agency Superunion for Arabic Bank ABC, which revealed an emerging typography design trend in mobile banking.
Phil Garnham on the creative trends and surge of nostalgia.
Creative Type Director, Phil Garnham, sits down with Creative Bloom to reflect on this year’s type trends and the role that type plays in influencing contemporary design - with a deep dive into the power of nostalgia.
Recliner Designer Podcast: Monotype’s Tom Foley on the world of Type Design.
Tom Foley, Creative Type Director at Monotype talked with Recliner Designer’s very own, Lance Shields, about the world of type and Tom’s design heritage.
Meet the team - Terrance Weinzierl.
Get to know our Studio team with this introduction of our Creative Type Director, Terrance Weinzierl.
Terrance has been creating and modifying typefaces for the Monotype Library and a wide range of brands since 2008. In addition to working on custom projects for PBS, Microsoft, Google, Barnes & Noble, Domino’s and SAP, he’s designed type for video games, professional sports teams and auto manufacturers.
Brand Talks Connected: 2020 Recap.
Brand Talks Connected delivers Monotype’s popular Brand Talks event series directly to wherever it is you’re working these days. Here’s a look back at some of the amazing content from 2020. We hope you’ll join us for the next event!
Creative Characters S1 E5: Terrence Williams: the beauty and power of embracing identity in the workplace.
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.
Creative Characters S1 E4: Tré Seals telling true stories through type.
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.
Creative Characters S1 E3: Jenna Blazevich: Punk rock activism, one chain-stitched letter at a time.
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.
Creative Characters S1 E1: James Sommerville: Let's reimagine how creative work gets done, shall we?
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.
Creative Characters S1 E2: Scott Starrett on designing an authentic, memorable, winning (and now iconic) political identity.
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.
Type Trends: 2021 and Beyond.
After a year like no other, and with an ever-changing future ahead, it is truly an exciting time for the creative industry. Join Charles Nix and Phil Garnham from the Monotype Studio for an in-depth look at the typographic trends that have emerged from this experience.
Highlights of SUMMA Branding at Brand Talks Connected.
Pablo Amade, Creative Director for SUMMA Branding, presents his Correos case study at Brand Talks Connected – EMEA on November 18, 2020.
HIghlights of Correos at Brand Talks Connected.
At Brand Talks Connected – EMEA on November 18, 2020 SUMMA Branding’s Creative Director Pablo Amade and Monotype Senior Type Designer Emilios Theofanous discussed developing a font for Correos, the Spanish postal service.
Sustainability: a way forward for brands, a challenge for design.
Today, it is a moral imperative that companies and agencies prioritize sustainable, environmentally friendly principles and practices. More and more consumers are demanding that brands act responsibly when it comes to environmental concerns. But what role does visual communication play in this topic, and how can type and design contribute to good sustainability practices?
Everything old is new again: a deeper look at nostalgia in design.
Over the past year or two, nostalgia has become a fixture in design of all kinds: typography, fashion, furniture and beyond. We take a look at the complex relationship between reviving heritage design elements and the history they come from.
Do sci-fi fonts work in the real-world future?
In a recent episode of our Creative Characters podcast, the conversation centered around how the futures we envision aren’t always practical for the reality we live in – both in sci-fi films and fonts in car dashboards.