Creative Characters

Latest Episodes:

Sarah Hyndman - Celebrating typography, one taste (???) at a time. May 20, 2021

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Welcome to Creative Characters, a podcast by Monotype exploring the people and personalities behind the brands, campaigns, and designs we love.

In our seventh episode, we speak 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. Sarah shares her mission to change the way we think and talk about typography by making it entertaining and relevant with humour, a dash of theater, and lashings of audience participation.

To learn more about Sarah and her work, visit typetasting.com and check out our blog post.

To learn more about Monotype, and how we are empowering brands through type, visit, montype.com

Chris Do - Can creatives make a living doing what they love? (Spoiler: yes.) May 06, 2021

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Welcome to Creative Characters, a podcast by Monotype exploring the people and personalities behind the brands, campaigns, and designs we love.

In our sixth episode, we speak 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. Chris shares his vision for helping one billion people build meaningful careers, and discusses what the future holds for creative work.

To learn more about Chris and to connect with his team, visit thefutur.com and check out our blog post. Also, we've partnered with Chris on something pretty exciting: a set including his hand-picked, curated, all-time favorite typefaces. Explore all three font bundles here, which fit every application from posters, websites, identity systems, presentations and videos.Finally, to learn more about Monotype, and how we are empowering brands through type, visit: https://www.monotype.com/.

Terrence Williams - The beauty and power of embracing identity in the workplace. Apr 22, 2021

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Welcome to Creative Characters, a podcast by Monotype exploring the people and personalities behind the brands, campaigns, and designs we love.

In our fifth episode, we speak with Terrence Williams, Senior Design Lead at Salesforce. Terrence discusses the importance of relationship design for brands, and shares his perspective on building environments that allow designers to bring their full identities into the workplace.

To learn more about Terrence and to connect with his work, check out our blog post at http://monotype.com/resources/expertise/creative-characters-terrence-williams.

Also, be sure to read his brilliant article, "Designing My Blackness," and listen to his new podcast, Macro Progressions.

To see what his team at Salesforce is working on, visit: https://www.salesforce.com/design/.

Finally, to learn more about Monotype, and how we are empowering brands through type, visit: https://www.monotype.com/.

Tré Seals - Telling true stories through type. Apr 07, 2021

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Welcome to Creative Characters, a podcast by Monotype that explores the people and personalities behind the brands, campaigns, and designs we love.

Our guest in episode four is Tré Seals, founder of the type studio Vocal Type. We talk about his efforts to break down stereotypes in design, create space and opportunity for designers from marginalized communities, 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.

To see Tré's work and learn more about Vocal Type, visit: https://www.vocaltype.co/ or check out our blog post at http://monotype.com/resources/expertise/creative-characters-tre-seals.

To learn more about how Monotype, and how we are empowering brands through type, visit: https://www.monotype.com/

Jenna Blazevich - Punk rock activism, one chain-stitched letter at a time. Mar 25, 2021

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In this episode, we talk with Chicago-based lettering artist Jenna Blazevich, founder and sole proprietor of Vichcraft, a multi- disciplinary design studio that "works right around the line between art and design to build a collection of activist-driven products." Topics include (but are not limited to) chain stitching, punk rock, the artist's role in social justice movements, and whatever the heck Malört is.

To see Jenna's work, check out our blog post at https://www.monotype.com/resources/expertise/creative-characters-jenna-blazevich

Or visit her website at www.vichcraft.com and follow her on Instagram @vichcraft.

Scott Starrett - Designing an authentic, memorable, winning (and now iconic) political identity. Mar 11, 2021

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Welcome to Creative Characters, a podcast by Monotype exploring the people and personalities behind the brands, campaigns, and designs we love.

In our second episode, Monotype Creative Type Director Charles Nix talks with Scott Starrett, Co-Founder and Principal of NYC design firm Tandem. Scott shares his story of a serendipitous introduction to a young bartender named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which led to Tandem designing the branding for her transformational 2018 Congressional campaign.

To learn more about Scott and the work Tandem is doing, visit: https://www.tandem.nyc/.

To learn more about how Monotype, and how we are empowering brands through type, visit: https://www.monotype.com/

James Sommerville - Let's reimagine how creative work gets done, shall we? Feb 22, 2021

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Welcome to Creative Characters, a podcast by Monotype exploring the people and personalities behind the brands, campaigns, and designs we love.

This is our first episode, and our guest is James Sommerville, who has worked at several notable brands including The Coca-Cola Company. Today, he is the co-founder of KNOWN_UNKOWN and is working to transform the future of creative talent.

To learn more about James and the work he's doing at KNOWN_UNKNOWN, visit: https://known--unknown.com/

To see a presentation James gave on his career journey and the future of creative work, visit: https://www.monotype.com/resources/videos/james-sommerville-keynote-brand-talks-connected

To learn more about how Monotype, and how we are empowering brands through type, visit: https://www.monotype.com/