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. Discounted early bird tickets are available now through March 31.

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. Discounted early bird tickets are available now through March 31.

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. Discounted early bird tickets are available now through March 31.

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.

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 desginers 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 and enter promo code DISSECTION_50 when you checkout to save $50 off of your admission.

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.