Tag: Creative Characters

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Creative Characters S4 E9: Angelina Lippert: Charting the human experience through poster design.

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.

Creative Characters S1 E8: John Norman John Norman: Visual storytelling for the masses.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.