Interviews
Nour Kanafani
Nour! I’m so glad we could connect. You’ve been a TDC member for a few years now. How long have you been a practicing designer? I published my first professional…
Nour! I’m so glad we could connect. You’ve been a TDC member for a few years now. How long have you been a practicing designer? I published my first professional…
Your studio, Synoptic Office, is a true design ‘practice’ – your work is exploratory and collaborative. Tell us how you got started in your design partnership? We first met in…
The TDC is a sponsor partner of Type@Cooper, the post-graduate typeface design program at The Cooper Union. Tell us about your experience with Type@Cooper. What did you make? Who were…
According to TDC board member Dan Rhatigan of Adobe Typekit, “Gerard has been very influential as a typeface designer, since his work has had an impact in so many contexts,…
Usually when you read about people in film and television, they often seem to take a circuitous route to their current careers. You rarely hear of someone majoring in title…
How did this crazy whirlwind begin? Were you a graphic designer first? Was type always your goal and/or interest? If my interest in type had been clear from the start,…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work My name is Graham Weber, and I am a 14-year-old aspiring type designer, graphic designer,…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I’m a British designer, typographer and art director currently based in New York, where I’ve…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I’m a Designer, Typographer, Lettering Artist, and Creative Director. In short, I like making stuff.…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I am a typography specialist. I am also a designer, but typography in all aspects…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I am a typographic artist and graphic designer. Raised in Rio de Janeiro, I initially trained…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I am a writer, designer, illustrator, brand strategist, educator, host of the Cooper-Hewitt award winning…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I do a lot of everything. I design typefaces, do custom lettering for branding applications,…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work My name’s Ray Masaki. I’m a designer living in Harlem and I recently started working…
Scher has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991. She began her career as an art director in the 1970s…
Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer and author of books and articles on type and typography. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be…
“The fruits of your talent and ability are nothing short of genius. As one of the few designers who has drawn typefaces for metal, photo, and digital medium, the substance…