Dissection

Amy Lee Walton is a multidisciplinary designer that walks the line between creative and coder. She is a practicing designer, cartographer, and speaker; who likes to write narrative and code. She currently works at Mapbox, where she designs maps, curates and queries open source data, and builds systems for outreach and engagement, teaching others the secrets of excellent cartography.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2018.typographics.com. To receive a $50 discount for individual tickets for professionals, students and educators, use the coupon code DISSECTION_50 at checkout.

Teddy Blanks is a co-founder of the Brooklyn-based graphic design studio CHIPS, where he creates book covers, movie posters, and title sequences for film and TV. In this episode we discuss the title design and prop design for Listen Up Philp, Queen of the Earth, Golden Exits, and Everything Sucks!

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2018.typographics.com. To receive a $50 discount for individual tickets for professionals, students and educators, use the coupon code DISSECTION_50 at checkout.

Veronika Burian and José Scaglione met and developed a respectful kinship while completing their Master’s degrees in type design at University of Reading, UK. Established in 2006, TypeTogether is an independent, cosmopolitan type foundry that creates text typography for intensive digital and print editorial use. In this episode we discuss their latest release, Protipo, a wide-ranging and impactful sans that’s ideal in all informative situations: apps, infographics, UI, wayfinding, transport, posters, display, and more.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2018.typographics.com. To receive a $50 discount for individual tickets for professionals, students and educators, use the coupon code DISSECTION_50 at checkout.

Anton Repponen and Irene Pereyra are friends, collaborators, designers, perfectionists and travel junkies. As former manhattan agency directors, they cut loose from the large agencies they worked at to get back to being hands-on designers based out of Brooklyn. In this episode we speak with them about the branding and digital work they did for NYC-based artist Shantell Martin.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2018.typographics.com. To receive a $50 discount for individual tickets for professionals, students and educators, use the coupon code DISSECTION_50 at checkout.

Simon Walker is a freelance designer and custom-typographer working in Austin, Texas. Some of his clients, past and present, include Nickelodeon, Vanity Fair, Pepsi, ESPN, Nike and Target. In this episode, we speak with Simon about his new type foundry, Beasts of England.

Kelsey Dake lives in the desert and draws pictures. She has drawn for The New York Times, Nike, Variety, BBDO, McSweeney's, HarperCollins, and is an Art Directors Club Young Guns winner. In this episode, we spoke with Kelsey about the illustration and animation she did for the Nike FlyEase sneakers.

Nicholas Felton is a designer, entrepreneur and artist whose work focuses on translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences. He is the author of numerous personal annual reports that condense the events of a year into a tapestry of maps, graphs and statistics. He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and his work is a part of the permanent collection at MoMA. In this episode, we speak with Nicholas about Photoviz, and book he helped to create about visualizing information through photography.

Allan Yu is a freelance product designer living and working in New York City. Allan has worked with Google and The New York Times, among others. In this episode we hear from Allan about why he started Mars Maiers, a side project in which he creates a new poster every day.

Invisible Creature was born from the minds and hands of Don and Ryan Clark with a desire to focus on print design, illustration and their own products including posters, books and toys. They've received 4 Grammy nominations for music packaging and have worked with clients such as Target, NASA, LEGO, Nike, Wired Magazine, The New York Times, and so many more. In this episode we speak with Don Clark about the mural the he illustrated for Cinerama in Seattle, WA.

Mikey Burton is a part time designer and a part time illustrator—which adds up to a full time Designy Illustrator. He’s been working professionally for over 13 years now, but claims to be ‘still figuring it out.’ He’s done a lot of work in that time for clients such as Converse, ESPN, Target, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and Esquire, among others. In this episode we speak with Mikey about the design and illustration he did for the labels and packaging of Southeast Brewing's Golden Axe Cider and line of Kaiju Beers.