Dissection

Anne Jordan designs book covers and other graphic objects. She works in collaboration with her husband Mitch Goldstein to explore the intersection of typography and materials. They are based in Rochester, New York, USA. Anne earned her BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA in Design/Visual Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts. She has taught graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art and Virginia Commonwealth University. In this episode we speak with Anne about the cover design of 'The Woman Who Read Too Much'

Hinterland is a New-York based multidisciplinary design studio that creates branding for print, digital and physical environments, as well as publication design for books and magazines. In this episode we speak with Scott Buschkuhl about the SVA 2016 Senior Library book.

Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid are partners at Isometric, a visual identity and graphic design consultancy that specializes in print, digital, and exhibition design. Based in New York City, they collaborate with cultural institutions, businesses, and nonprofits to reinvent the way they present themselves visually and strategically. Isometric also works with a variety of organizations that represent marginalized and underserved populations, including civilians in zones of conflict, subjects of human trafficking, and more. They believe in design that transcends existing expectations by challenging cliches and stereotypes in visual culture. In this episode, we speak with Andy and Waqas about the branding and environmental design they did for the Princeton University Fields Center.

In this roundtable discussion, Jason and Chris discuss the pro's and con's of open source branding and crowd sourced branding. Examples discussed include Mozilla, Firefox, Gap, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Keira Alexandra started her career at the seminal design studio M&Co., founded by Tibor Kalman, followed by creative director positions at MTV and Sundance TV. She has taught in the graphic design graduate program at Yale since 1999 and frequently lectures about design. Kiffer Keegan began as a cinematographer and motion designer. Before becoming a partner at Work-Order, he worked as senior designer at Comedy Central and as lead designer and animator for over a dozen major luxury and media accounts, from Acura to HBO. In this episode we’ll speak with Kiera and Kiffer about the rebranding of The Huffington Post that their studio did last year.

Studio Moross is a multi-tasking studio that creates, art directs, designs, and films some of the biggest brands on the planet. Working with the most cutting-edge designers, the Studio Moross approach is unparalleled: creating instantly recognizable and totally unforgettable art direction, print, packaging, moving image and branding to make the world look fresher, better and more alive. As yet they’ve created iconic work for the likes of MTV, Disclosure, Sam Smith, Ray-Ban, Dreamland, Vice, Young Turks and One Direction among many, many others. In this episode, we speak with Kate Moross and illustrator/designer Guy about the Park Life 2017 campaign.

In this week's roundtable discussion, Jason and Chris discuss the IHOP / IHOB branding campaign; Ogilvy's brand refresh, and changes in the B2B marketing industry, with a focus on employer branding.

Antonio Alcalá opened Studio A in 1988 after graduating from the Yale School Art with an MFA in graphic design. Since then, his studio has won awards of excellence in design from local, national and international design institutions. His clients include the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. Alcalá is responsible for the design of US postage stamps as an art director for the United States Postal Service, and in 2011, Alcalá was nominated for two National Design Awards from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work is represented in the AIGA Design Archives, the National Postal Museum, and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection of Graphic Design. In this episode we speak with Antonio about his role as an Art Director for the United States Postal Service.

Bobby C. Martin Jr. is a founding partner of Original Champions of Design in New York City, where he guides OCD's culture and sets the relentless standard of design and vision for the company. Since founding the branding and design agency, with Jennifer Kinon in 2010, he has partnered with a wide range of clients such as the Girl Scouts of the USA, MTV, the New York Times, the National Basketball Association and the Studio Museum in Harlem to ensure their growth and creative goals. 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.

Lance Wyman is a graphic designer specializing in systems for cities, events, institutions and transit systems. Over the past 5 decades he has helped to define the field of environmental graphics. He teaches corporate and wayfinding design at Parsons where he has been a visiting lecturer since 1973. In this episode, we speak with Lance about the branding, typography, and industrial design he has done for the City of Mexico, which started with the Summer Olympics in 1968. 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.

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.

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.

Sasha Tochilovsky and Cara Di Edwardo are the founders of the Typographics Festival, which is gearing up for it's third year as a festival celebrating and exploring every facet of typography. In this episode we speak with them about how the conference got started, and how to organize a two week festival in New York City with zero prior experience.

With an MFA in Graphic & Interactive Design from Tyler School of Art, Scotty Reifsnyder brings centuries of experience to his clients under the pan-dimensional guidance of his alter ego Lord Rutherford B. Crumphouse III, his long lost mentor. Scotty’s work has brought fame and good fortune to such clients as Chronicle Books, Disney/Pixar, GQ, Time Magazine, The New York Times, and Wired. In this episode we speak with Scotty about the elaborate self-promo piece he created called “Hotel Detective”

Owen Davey is an award-winning Illustrator, living & working in Leicester, UK. He is a primary Illustrator for TwoDots, a wildly popular iOS game, as well as the illustrator of iPad App of the Year 2015 game, The Robot Factory. His work has been published in every continent except Antarctica, including picture books in UK, America, Australia, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Portugal, China, Sweden, Russia & South Korea. In this episode we speak with Owen about ‘Smart About Sharks’, an illustrated book about the many variety of sharks and interesting facts about them.

Mike McQuade is focused on creating smart, provocative, and conceptual work for editorial illustrations, covers, brands and various print and online visual communications. Through constant exploration of typography, imagery and illustration, his work transcends style. In this episode we speak with Mike about some of the illustration work he has done for The New York Times.

Dan Kent is a Philadelphia-based graphic designer currently working as Art Director at Urban Outfitters. In this episode, we speak with Dan about the rebranding of the Urban Outfitters men's retail line of apparel and accessories.

Mary Kate McDevitt is a letterer and illustrator living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Mary Kate graduated from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia with a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration in 2007. In this episode we talk with Mary Kate about a series of posters she created featuring life lessons from various genres of movies.

After spending a few years in Nashville working in the music industry, Benji Peck opened the doors of Peck & Company. Since then, Benji and his team have been crafting thoughtful brands and identities for their clients. In this episode we speak with Benji about the branding and logo design he created for The 404 Hotel & Kitchen, a boutique hideout for travelers looking for a tailored stay in town or a unique dining experience.

“Posters force you to create…to push two of the essential elements of branding, which are voice and image. It forces you to figure out what the voice of the brand is.” Clara Mulligan started in the graphic design field at the early age of six as Owner and CEO of "T-shirt World," a puffy paint T-shirt business. Years later, she received her MFA in Graphic Design from RISD, graduating with honors. She’s done work for Dickies, Seattles Best Coffee, and the Seattle Space Needle. In this episode we talk with Clara about the branding and design work she did for Kigo Kitchen, a Pan-Asian, quick-fire lunch and dinner joint.

Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell work to diminish the boundaries between graphic design and photography—creating collaged three-dimensional images influenced by modern painting, technology and architecture. In this episode we speak with them about the poster they created for the Lyceum Fellowship, and architectural competition for students.

Matt Stevens is a designer, illustrator, speaker and creative tinkerer from North Carolina. His focus is brand identity programs and illustration. He aims to always do thoughtful and unforgettable work for amazing brands and make the whole process a pleasure. In this episode we speak with Matt about The Rookie Handbook, a book he designed and created with players from the Carolina Panthers.

Jessica Svendsen is a designer working in identity, editorial design, and illustration. She is currently based in New York City and works at the New York Times Magazine. Previously, Jessica worked as a designer at Apple and at Pentagram in New York for partner Michael Bierut. Jessica teaches design as adjunct faculty at Parsons The New School and the Pratt Institute. She received a MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art and a BA in English Literature from Yale University. In this episode we speak with Jessica about the rebranding she did for the Charlie Rose television show, website, and collateral.

Over 25 years, Tobias Frere-Jones has established himself as one of the world’s leading typeface designers, creating some of the most widely used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, and Tungsten. In this episode we speak with Tobias about Retina, the 2nd font released from his studio Frere-Jones Type.

Rafael Esquer runs Alfalfa Studio, his own design studio which he established in 2004. Clients have included The New York Times Magazine, Kate Spade New York, Nike, Björk, AIGA, The Philip Johnson Glass House, The Houston Rockets, Target, and IBM. Some of his work is contained in the Library of Congress poster collection, the Museum of Fine Art in Montreal, the Poster Museum in Poland and the Olympic Museum in Switzerland. In this episode we speak with Rafael about the badge he designed for the New York City Football Club.

Martine Bertrand is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked for over twenty five years as a theatrical costume designer. Her career is one of international acclaim and her designs have graced the stages of some of the most prestigious opera houses around the world.   In 2016, Martine marked another milestone in her career when she conceived and designed the graphic language used by the aliens for Denis Villeneuve’s motion picture Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.

Marian Bantjes is a designer, typographer, writer and illustrator working internationally from her base on a small island off the west coast of Canada, near Vancouver. She is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), and regularly speaks about her work and thoughts at conferences and events worldwide. In this episode we spoke with Marian about the Coexistence poster she designed for AGI.

Matt Lehman is equal parts graphic designer, illustrator, and art director. He began his career in 2001 at Anderson Design Group in Nashville. It was there that he once laid out packaging for a cassette. In 2007, he joined CMT / MTV Networks focusing on show identities and the network rebrand in 2009. In 2010 he formed Matt Lehman Studio working for brands such as ESPN, Delta, PepsiCo, The Atlantic, Esquire, Nickelodeon and NASA to name a few.  In this episode we speak with Matt about his redesign of the colophon for The Atlantic magazine.

At the end of 2008, after working in agencies and studios between Barcelona, Düsseldorf and Munich, Marta Cerdà Alimbau won the ADC Young Guns and decided to found her own studio. Since then, she’s worked on global projects which call for Art Direction, Design, Illustration and Custom Typography for Arts, Culture and Advertising Clients. You can currently find her between Amsterdam and Barcelona. In this episode we speak with Marta about the imaginary alphabet she designed for the OFFF Unmasked book.

Emily is a multi-disciplinary designer and partner at Pentagram in New York City whose work encompasses brand identity, motion graphics, publications, packaging, advertising and websites for clients including NBC, Herman Miller, Conde Nast, HBO, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MTV, and many more. Her design is notable for its intelligence, political commitment and sense of humor. In this episode we talk with Emily about the brand identity for the non-profit organization Film Independent.

For over 10 years, Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers have been working together as The Heads of State. They’ve created award winning posters, book covers, branding, and illustration for a diverse and impressive list of clients. They lecture frequently about their work and process and teach graphic design and illustration at Tyler School of Art where they both studied. In this episode we talk with Dusty and Art Director Woody Harrington about the booklets they designed for New Balance for the Boston and Brooklyn Marathons.

Coe Leta Stafford is a Senior Design Director at IDEO and instructor at IDEO U where she specializes in Design Research, insights and innovation. Since joining IDEO in 2006, she’s been leading teams to solve problems more creatively in industries such as Microsoft, eBay, Target, Bank of America, Sesame Street, Electronic Arts, non-profit foundations, and government and healthcare groups. Her work has won several international awards  been featured in the New York Times and Wired. Kat Chanover is a creative producer and designer who has worked in hi-tech, consumer products, and film. She loves bringing ideas to life and making sure that IDEO U’s video content is always polished, inspiring, and playful. In this episode, we’ll speak with Coe Leta and Kat about IDEO U, an online school where anyone can unlock their creative potential through design thinking and collaboration.

Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind 344lovesyou.com and dailymonster.com, which has spawned a book and the popular “Monster Maker” iOS app. He is the author of five other books, including the best-selling "344 Questions—The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment." He has created designs and illustrations for David Hockney, Judd Apatow, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an ADC Young Gun and has won a D&AD Yellow Pencil for book design, among many others.   In this episode we speak with Stefan about the entrance of the Blue Man Theater which he designed for the Monte Carlo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.