Dissection

Amy & Jen Hood are the co-founders of Hoodzpah, a unique ,boutique branding agency in Newport Beach, CA having worked with brands like Target, Facebook, Vox and more. In this episode, we speak with Amy & Jen about Odds And Sods, their brand of Unnecessary Necessaries.

Born the son of a lawyer and a music teacher in West TN, Jeff is a product of creativity and logic. Jeff joined the ad world as an account executive after earning a degree in business from the University of Tennessee. After five years of brand management and strategy experience, he headed to NYC where he graduated from Parson’s School of Design and worked with smaller design-focused practices. Drawing from these experiences, Jeff returned to Nashville and opened the doors of Perky Bros in 2009. In this episode, we speak with Jeff about the branding, illustration, and package design his studio did for Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Company.

Erik Spiekermann is an award-winning designer, typographer and entrepreneur. He has been named Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal British Society of Arts and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Design Council. In this episode, we speak with Erik about his creation of the typeface FF Real.

Michael Bierut worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as vice president of graphic design. He then joined Pentagram in 1990 as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Bierut’s projects at Pentagram have included identity and branding for Verizon, MIT Media Lab, and the New York Jets; environmental graphics and signage for The New York Times, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Robin Hood Foundation, and the Walt Disney Company, and so many more projects in every discipline of design. He has won hundreds of design awards, work is represented in the permanent collections of the MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 1989, Bierut was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale. If that all wasn’t enough, Bierut is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. In this episode, we speak with Michael about the branding and identity work he did for Playwrights Horizons, an independent theater in New York City.

On our one-year anniversary, Jason and Chris take the time to look back and recount how and why Dissection came to be. Hear the story of the original idea for the show which got rejected, and how inspiration from other podcasts lead to the format which would become Dissection.

Silas Munro earned his BFA from RISD and an MFA from CalArts. His design studio, Poly-Mode, primarily works with cultural institutions and community-based organizations including MoMA, the Walker Art Center, and the Wynwood nerighborhood in Miami, Florida. A seasoned and dedicated educator, Silas is currently an assistant professor at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles and a founding faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Graphic Design. In this episode, we speak with Silas about the work he did for the catalogue and identity for Mark Bradford’s presentation as part of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at 2017.typographics.com/ and enter promo code DISSECTION_50 when you checkout to save $50 off of your admission.

Ken Barber is a letterer, type designer and type director at design studio and type foundry House Industries. Ken’s work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been honored by the New York Type Directors Club. In this episode, we speak with Ken about “The Process Is The Inspiration”, a new monograph about the work of House Industries.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2017.typographics.com/ and enter promo code DISSECTION_50 when you checkout to save $50 off of your admission.

Martin Venezky is a graphic designer and educator based in San Francisco, California. Martin’s work blurs the boundaries between fine art, photography, collage, and commercial design. His studio Appetite Engineers ( http://www.appetiteengineers.com/ ) has created work for Adobe, Facebook, The New York Times, and Wired, as well as filmmaker Wes Anderson. A monograph of his work, It Is Beautiful...Then Gone, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2007. In 2015 Venezky was inducted into the esteemed Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). In this episode we discuss Martin's installation "Drops from a Faucet into a Pool" that he did at the Adobe HQ in San Francisco.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2017.typographics.com/ and enter promo code DISSECTION_50 when you checkout to save $50 off of your admission.

Hilary Greenbaum is the Director of Graphic Design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since 2012, she has managed the development of the museum’s identity across multiple platforms including advertising, exhibition graphics, signage, digital media, product packaging, and a wide variety of printed ephemera. In this episode we speak with Hilary about the sub-identity system she and her team created for the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2017.typographics.com/ and enter promo code DISSECTION_50 when you checkout to save $50 off of your admission.

Jonathan Key is an art director, designer and writer. He currently freelances serving as a contributing art director to The Tenth Magazine a Black, queer arts and culture magazine; while focusing on branding and design projects for arts and cultural institutions. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a Bachelors of Fine Art in Graphic Design. In this episode we speak with Jon about the type design and art direction he did for the book Black Girl Magic.

This episode is sponsored by The Typographics Festival. To learn more, and purchase tickets, visit them at http://2017.typographics.com/ and enter promo code DISSECTION_50 when you checkout to save $50 off of your admission.