User Journey w/ Sevy

Sara Soskolne is a type designer who, for over 16 years, cut her teeth, and her serifs, at the iconic Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry, working on such hits as Gotham, Verlag, and Chronicle. Today, she is an Executive Creative Director at Monotype , where she just published Gotham Variable — an update and transition completing the typeface’s 25-year journey from the cover of GQ Magazine to t...

Ian Lynam works at the intersection of graphic design, design education and design research. He is faculty at Temple University Japan, and he operates the Tokyo-based design studio Ian Lynam Design where he works across identity, typography, and interior design. Ian writes for IDEA (JP), Modes of Criticism (PT/UK), Slanted (DE) and he’s published numerous books about design including, most recentl...

Goodtype , from Katie Johnson and Ilana Griffo , is a platform for creative education, resources, and inspiration. Katie is a lettering artist who lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and pets. Her clients include Penguin Random House, Trader Joe’s, and Logitech. Ilana is a designer and author who lives in upstate New York with her husband and children; her clients include Lululemon, Microsoft,...

James Edmondson is a San Jose-based type designer who, in 2015, started OH no Type Co. , the foundry for the fonts that no one wants; and in 2018, he co-founded Future Fonts , a platform for experimental type-in-progress. His new book, The OH no Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design , is out now from Princeton Architectural Press. James studied graphic design at California College of the...

Paula Scher is a designer, painter, and educator. Since 1991, she has been Partner at influential New York City design firm Pentagram , and she’s the creative mind behind some of America’s most iconic brand campaigns. She’s made more than 2,000 album covers for artists like Billy Joel, Leonard Bernstein, and Bob Dylan — while her celebrated map paintings have inspired books, screenprints, and exhi...

Season 01's finale is made in partnership with  The Hopkins Review  ( THR ) , the award-winning journal of literature and culture from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Follow along with a selection of images from the conversation, and pre-order Volume 18 now, at  hopkinsreview.com/john-waters . Listener discretion is advised. John Waters is a filmmaker, actor, artist, and writ...

Jill Gage is Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing and the Bibliographer for British Literature and History at the Newberry Library , Chicago’s independent research library, founded in 1887. In addition to conducting research, conserving artifacts, and teaching classes, Jill is preparing her next exhibition, Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago , which...

Elaine Lopez is an independent designer and educator who is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the BFA in Communication Design program at Parsons School of Design in New York City. At her studio, LoPress Press , Elaine collaborates with cultural and academic institutions to explore the intersection of culture, identity, and equity within the field of design. She holds a BFA from the...

Caryl Pagel is a poet, editor, and author of four books, most recently Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press, 2022). She is co-founder, editor, and publisher at independent American house Rescue Press , as well as director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center ’s NEOMFA program. Caryl holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MFAs from the School of the Art Instit...

David Wallace Haskins is an interdisciplinary artist using the elements of light, space, time, and sound to create experiential interventions. He is founder and principal at DWH Studio , where he collaborates with specialists and technicians to create his work. Since 2021, David has been an artist-in-residence at Edith Farnsworth House, where his exhibition  Landscape + Light   re-contextualizes M...

Bud Rodecker explores the space between logical constraints and formal play. He is founder and design director at Span , a Chicago-based studio crossing the boundaries of communication design in all mediums. He is a former president of the Society of Typographic Arts , and he is a board member of the Chicago Design Museum . Bud joins Sevy to talk about how an old Photoshop demo changed his life, t...

Nermin Moufti is a Syrian-born, Saudi-raised designer and creative director who works in both English and Arabic, re-invigorating local to global brands while leading boundary-breaking campaigns for clients like Planned Parenthood, the Type Directors Club, Netflix, StockX, and more. Currently, Nermin is a co-founder of Field of Practice , a women- and member-owned creative studio founded in 2020 t...

Ryan Ken is an actor and two-time Emmy Award-winning television writer at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver who uses an unconventional comedic perspective to comment on social issues, film, television, politics, and pop culture. Ryan joins Sevy to talk about lessons learned from collaborations with designers, life before (and after) going viral online, and how to nurture your creative practice, a...

Alex Belardo Kostiw gives shape to stories. She is a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , a 2023-2024 Hatch Artist-in-Residence, a Teaching Artist at Spudnik Press , and she makes at her self-publishing practice Tenderly . Alex joins Sevy to talk all things bookmaking and then some, including how her creative development began as a child growing up in a crowded Bronx, he...

Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. She serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Ellen joins Sevy to celebrate the third edition of her classic guide to typography:  Thinking with Type  (Princet...