Best Typeface Podcasts (2025)

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Emerging Typeface Designers Paulina Marin & Darrab Qureshi 30:54

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Send us a text Meet emerging typeface designers, Paulina Marin and Darrab Qureshi! Paulina designed a typeface called Funky Pants and Darrab designed an Arabic typeface called Qalam in GCM 806 Advanced Typography at Toronto Metropolitan University. In the following conversation, you'll get to hear about each typeface. You'll also hear their perfect…

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Life is Collage with Ioana of Artizine UK 53:21

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Send us a text Welcome to a 4-part publishing series all about the world of zines! From makers near and far, with small and large publications, you’ll hear about this exciting medium where anything can happen at the intersection of art and independent publishing. First up we have Ioana Simion, who is an artist-educator and facilitator based London.…

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Marketing Will Be Upended Sooner Than You Think 44:04

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Vikrant Batra, cofounder of Maximon.ai and former CMO at HP, says that if you aren’t already well on your way in your AI journey, your marketing organization is in serious trouble. He details why he left his former corporate employer to strike out in an AI business, how fast change is coming, and why the financial side of companies will be coming f…

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Be The Glitch You Want to See in the Matrix with James McCrae 43:54

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Send us a text Welcome to a thought-provoking and paradigm-shifting conversation with James McCrae, author, poet, and teacher who empowers creators to live with purpose and turn imagination into reality. In this conversation you’ll hear how James’ career has always been rooted in both art and writing, including his navigation through various facets…

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Toronto Tourism, Graffiti Culture & Emotional Infrastructure with Alex Sein 59:22

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Send us a text Today we have educator, storyteller and Toronto tourism go-to, Alex Sein @BeardedProf416. In this conversation, you’ll hear Alex’s story of becoming a Torontonian, including his link to graffiti culture in the city and how he accidentally became intwined in this community. You’ll hear about the history of graffiti, why it matters and…

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Nature x Creativity with Paige Deasley 34:34

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Send us a text Today’s conversation features Paige Deasley, photographer, storyteller, and creative strategist passionate about helping people reconnect with nature. In this conversation, you’ll hear about Paige’s life that exists at the intersection of nature and creativity. You’ll hear how she handles working remotely while immersing herself in n…

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AI Is Upending Media Planning and Buying 42:23

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Mark Polyak, Chief Product and Technology Officer at MINT.ai, says that embedding agents is transforming every step of the advertising resource management process. He explains how his background in counterterrorism helps shape his approach to AI and data integration today. Plus, he shares how MINT.ai is using multi-agent systems, synthetic data, an…

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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Citizen Printer 44:03

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Send us a text Today we have the one, the only, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., an American printer, book artist and papermaker who has been puttin’ ink on paper since 1949. He is a citizen printer, which you’ll hear much more about very soon. In this conversation, you’ll hear about Amos’ incredible book, Citizen Printer, including how it came to be, what …

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Talk Paper Scissors Meets...Talk Paper Scissors?! 47:16

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Send us a text Today’s guest is internet artist, Nolen Royalty. He's interested in getting strangers to interact over the internet in unusual ways and in pushing mundane technology to its limits. Projects of his include stranger video (a website that shows you live, silent video of a stranger's face until one of you blinks), One Million Checkboxes …

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Why AI Isn’t Enough for a Winning Marketing Strategy 34:46

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Doug McColgin, Director of Marketing Strategy at UScellular, says that AI tools aren't enough to build an effective marketing strategy. As more and more companies adopt AI, the playing field will be leveled when it comes to productivity gains. But McColgin thinks AI can be used in more creative ways to differentiate from your competitors. He explai…

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Creative Meets Technical with James Rowan 36:08

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Send us a text Could you collaborate to make an award-winning professional short film with a team from start to finish in just 48 hours? Our guest today has done just that! James Rowan is a technologist, educator, and researcher working at the intersection of film, television, and emerging technology. You’ll hear James talk about the ways in which …

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Type Up Your Life with Elliot Jay Stocks 39:34

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Send us a text Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit, founder of typography magazine 8 Faces, and for his recent collaboration with Google that lead to the creation of Google Fonts Knowledge. In this conversation, you’ll hear about Elliot’s prolific career…

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I Wrote a Book! 9:27

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Send us a text Welcome to 250th episode of Talk Paper Scissors where I celebrate YOU the listeners, chat about podcasting milestones and share info about the upcoming release of my book called Brave Creative Human: Reframe imposter syndrome, embrace failure and be unapologetically you, with the foreword written by the one and only Drag Artist & Cre…

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The Art of Direction with Vincent Wanga 47:52

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Send us a text From actionable leadership strategies to creative direction to AI, this episode is for all of the creative change makers! In this conversation, you’ll hear from creative leader, Vince Wanga, author of "The Art of Direction” with a distinguished two-decade career. He shares the benefits of long-term goal setting and he shares his next…

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AI Adoption and Experiments with Microsoft’s Jen Kattula 39:40

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Jen Kattula, CMO at Microsoft Advertising, has been testing out ways to improve the jobs of marketers through AI - while at the same time trying to improve organizational effectiveness. She shares use cases from Microsoft, how she thinks about agents and human intervention, and the hurdles around getting people trained up and in the habit of using …

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Playing Racquetball in the Bathroom with Artist Kara Dunne 44:24

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Send us a text Have you ever dressed up as a life-sized paper doll, used a typewriter in a public bathroom or traveled to multiple continents to learn more about sheep? Meet Kara Dunne, who has done all of the above and more in the name of art. In this conversation, you’ll learn more about why and how many artistic modalities are part of Kara’s art…

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A Rosie Life in Italy with Rosie Meleady 38:53

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Send us a text Today’s guest is Rosie Meleady, Irish author and my first cousin once removed! Rosie is currently having a fabulous midlife crisis in Italy, running women’s writing retreats in Italy twice a year, and hosting women solo travellers and creatives in her Umbrian villa guest house. She writes humorous living memoir and humorous fiction. …

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Snacky Sidebars with Magazine Designer Kyle Schruder 39:43

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Send us a text This 3 part mini-series features 3 designers who bring different kinds of magazines to life. In this third and final episode, we have Creative Director and magazine designer, Kyle Scrhuder. In this conversation, Kyle straddles the line between printed magazines and digital magazines. You’ll also hear about a project early in Kyle’s c…

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Digital Tools for Magazine Creation with Alexandra Golubeva of Readymag 34:18

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Send us a text This 3 part mini-series features 3 designers who bring different kinds of magazines to life. In this second episode, we have Alexandra Golubeva, Designer at Readymag! In this conversation, Alexandra takes us through what Readymag is all about, as well as a series of projects that showcase the platform’s capabilities. You’ll better un…

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Serving Up Magazines with Nicola Hamilton 37:52

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Send us a text This 3 part mini-series features 3 designers who bring different kinds of magazines to life. First up we have Art Director and Issues Magazine Shop owner, Nicola Hamilton! In this conversation, you’ll hear Nicola share what it means to work on projects that manifest in print, as well as how she approaches the design of Serviette maga…

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The Next 90 Days of Your AI Rollout 41:55

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Paul Roetzer, founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute and Smarter X, left his agency world behind and now spends his days training marketers on how to better use AI to move their organization forward. When it comes to AI adoption at marketing organizations, there’s still a wide range of adoption - and Roetzer shares what he’s seen in terms of wha…

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Communities of Care with Patricia Ki 56:06

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Send us a text This is the third and final episode in a 3-part mini series about exploring creative education, both as a noun and a verb; new ways of thinking about assessments, grading and ungrading with 3 brilliant educators who work and teach in the spaces of communication, design, creativity, art and art therapy. In this episode, you’ll hear fr…

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Design as Creative Midwifery with Rupsha Mutsuddi 52:46

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Send us a text This is the second episode in a 3-part mini series about exploring creative education, both as a noun and a verb; new ways of thinking about assessments, grading and ungrading with 3 brilliant educators who work and teach in the spaces of communication, design, creativity, art and art therapy. In this episode, you’ll hear from resear…

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29: Deploying Our New Typeface: Spotify Mix 32:32

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Last year Spotify launched a big update to the app: a new typeface. For most of us, changing fonts is easy. It’s just a dropdown menu away. But creating a whole new typeface and then rolling it out across 45 unique platforms, and over 2,000 types of devices spread across 200 brands – that’s not so simple. This brand new font is called Spotify Mix a…

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Success Through Failure with Dom Prevost 46:11

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Send us a text This is the first episode in a 3-part mini series about exploring creative education, both as a noun and a verb; new ways of thinking about assessments, grading and ungrading with 3 brilliant educators who work and teach in the spaces of communication, design, creativity, art and art therapy. First up is Dom Prevost, Group Creative D…

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Lora: An Incomplete History of Type 5:43

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Send us a text From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 5!) This episode is guest hosted by Natalie Annabelle. Name: Lora Release Date: 2022 Designers: Cyreal, (Type Designer) Alexei Vanyash…

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Eurostile: An Incomplete History of Type 9:28

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Send us a text From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 5!) This episode is guest hosted by Sam Weinberg. Name: Eurostile Release Date: 1962 Designer: Aldo Novarese Classification: Geometric…

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Abhaya Libre: An Incomplete History of Type 5:11

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Send us a text From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 5!) This episode is guest hosted by Joanne Liao. Name: Abhaya Libre Release Date: 2015 Designer: Sol Matas Classification: Serif Owned…

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Lexend: An Incomplete History of Type 10:40

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Send us a text From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 5!) This episode is guest hosted by Matthew Karton. Name: Lexend Release Date: 2019 Designers: Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Linnea Lundquist, …

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Georgia: An Incomplete History of Type 8:47

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Send us a text From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 5!) This episode is guest hosted by Darrab Qureshi. Name: Georgia Release Date: 1996 Designer: Matthew Carter Classification: Transiti…

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Looking Past the Brush with Koy Suntichotinun 42:28

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Send us a text This is the fifth and final episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with design typography pros from across North America! This episode features Koy Sun, a seasoned Thai American artist, whose decade-long journey through the realms of custom lettering and illustration has recently expanded in…

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Baselines and Basslines with Jamie Chang of Manic Type 30:29

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Send us a text This is the fourth episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with design typography pros from across North America! This episode features Jamie Chang, founder of Manic Type in Toronto, Canada. You’ll hear Jamie draw parallels between brand identity design and type design, better understand his …

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AI is Changing the Consumer Journey, According to Google and BCG Research 37:50

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Sadie Thoma, director of US B2B marketing at Google, and Derek Rodenhausen, managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, say that artificial intelligence is having a major impact on marketing - especially when it comes to the consumer journey. They partnered on new research that shows that the four main consumer behaviors today are str…

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A Legacy in Lettering with Jessica Hische 32:17

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Send us a text This is the third episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with design typography pros from across North America! In this episode features the legendary, Jessica Hische. You’ll hear Jessica’s origin story in graphic design and illustration, how she works with sources of inspiration and what he…

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Lettering, Signs and Graphic Design with Chris Rouleau 30:26

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Send us a text This is the second episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with design typography pros from across North America! In this episode you’ll hear about Chris’ recent projects, the magic to be found in creative constraints, and helpful advice about where to find inspiration. You’ll hear about Chri…

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Illustration and Brand Collaboration with Fiorella Granda 37:07

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Send us a text This is the first episode in a 5-part guest lecture series in GCM 806 Advanced Typography, speaking with design typography pros from across North America! In this episode you’ll hear design, illustrator and content creator, Fiorella Granda, discuss her relatively recent shift to full-time illustration, her creative process and the wa…

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28: The CNCF Turns 10 39:30

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Ever heard of Kubernetes? Envoy? Prometheus? You probably have. But what you may not know is that these projects are managed and sustained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, aka the CNCF. Cloud native computing allows IT and software to move faster, and open source projects are essential to furthering these innovations and keeping them acces…

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How US Bank and Supergood Made an AI-Driven Campaign 35:41

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Michael Lacorazza, CMO of US Bank, and Mike Barrett, Founder and CSO at Supernatural AI, set out to break the mold: to partner together on an advertising campaign for the large financial institution using innovative AI methods and achieving fast results. If you’re interested in how to partner with AI agencies to take your work to the next level, li…

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Behind the Scenes with Mufasa (Oren Williamson on Creativity, Collaboration and Comedy) 55:11

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Send us a text On the heels of his debut as Mufasa in Mirvish’s The Lion King last Friday night, Oren Williamson is here to chat all things creativity, collaboration and comedy! In this episode, you’ll hear Oren’s origin story moving through his non-linear creative journey. You’ll hear him explain the process to play a role in The Lion King’s produ…

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Creating as a Designer AND an Artist with Zach Litoff 30:24

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Send us a text Have you ever found yourself straddling the world of art and the world of design, not sure if you should commit fully to one or the other? Enter Zach Litoff, a multi-media artist AND designer whose work blends art and design to create visually compelling narratives. He’s here to chat about existing in both worlds and the benefits he’…

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Branding Trends and Trending Brands with Amelia Nash 47:58

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Send us a text We’re talking about brands with multi award winning designer Amelia Nash, Brand & Marketing Manager for the School of Visual Arts Masters in Branding program and Senior Staff Writer for PRINT Magazine. In this conversation, you’ll hear about Amelia’s predictions in branding through 2025 related to strategy, design and emerging practi…

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Portfolio Advice You Need to Hear with Robert Smith 45:49

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Send us a text Let’s talk portfolios! Meet Robert Smith, a seasoned creative leader, branding strategist, and published author with over 30 years of experience in the design and marketing industry. He is the architect/creative director of the beloved Farm Boy brand. With a reputation for blending creativity with business acumen, Robert has been rec…

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Career Breaks and World Travel with Eden Kim 43:54

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Send us a text In this episode, you’ll meet one of Diana's best friends, Eden Kim, who talks about her recent career break travelling around the world and the lessons she’s learned along the way. Eden considers herself a global citizen, with home being wherever her heart happens to be visiting at any given time. Over the years, she’s transformed fr…

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The Basics of AI Marketing (And What the Future Holds) 39:29

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Shiv Singh, co-founder of AI Trailblazers and the author of Marketing with AI For Dummies, knows that there’s still a huge range of adoption in the marketing space when it comes to artificial intelligence. He shares tips for those still early in their journey, and predictions for 2025 when it comes to how the marketing industry will be further upen…

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Little Canada, Big Team Effort 27:07

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Send us a text Back your bags, we’re going on a trip! Today I am speaking with Mark Domanski, Director of Destinations, who oversees the build and expansion of the immersive miniature exhibits at Little Canada. In this conversation, you’ll hear about the design and creative collaboration within Little Canada, as well as the attraction’s origin stor…

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The Signs That Define Toronto with Kurt Kraler 37:59

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Send us a text Today we are talking about signs that define Toronto! Featured today is Kurt Kraler, a registered Architect (OAA) and project manager at ERA Architects and co-creator of the book “The Signs That Define Toronto”. In this episode you’ll better understand how and why signs can tell us so much about the changing culture of a city, includ…

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Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on the Future of AI Marketing Workflows 43:20

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Abhay Parasnis, founder of Typeface, is making a big bet on where artificial intelligence will truly reshape the marketing industry. After experience at Adobe and other large organizations, Parasnis ventured out on his own in 2022 to work on a tool to solve the fundamental problem in marketing today, the “content paradox.” He explains why there’s a…

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Marketing AI Trends That Emerged from CES 1:00:43

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Shelly Palmer, Professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and CEO of The Palmer Group, reports on the AI marketing trends he is most excited about coming out of this year’s Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. He talks about what’s over and underhyped - from superautomation and agents to content creation and beyo…

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Delicious Web Typography with Oliver Schöndorfer of Pimp My Type 56:11

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Send us a text This final episode of 2024 features Austrian interface and app designer and fellow type geek, Oliver Schöndorfer. In this episode, you’ll learn LOTS about web typography, specifically: How Oliver defines web typography Web font hierarchy The ins and outs of choosing a typeface for the web The difference between ‘web fonts’ and ‘web s…

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Mindfully Creative with Radim Malinic 48:03

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Send us a text This episode features Radim Malinic, the creative director and designer at the helm of award-winning branding and creative studio Brand Nu Studio and the independent publishing firm Brand Nu Books. In this episode, you’ll hear about Radim’s journey and evolution with mindfulness techniques, why Radim is a self-described ‘Eternally Cu…