Typography

Victor Davila // Crafting Lovable, Illustrated Characters

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Aired Wednesday, February 1, 2017. Episode 201 [youtube id=”d4h83PU-OHw”] Victor Davila is an illustrator, a designer, and an educator. Victor lives in Orlando, Florida and has worked on character design projects, editorial illustrations, interactive games, and children’s books. Victor is flexible in his styles of illustration and is really humble. This episode will help creatives […]

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Dan Lee // Hand Lettering Engineer

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Aired Saturday, January 21, 2017. Episode 199 [youtube id=”25uIa9knkjY”] This week on Design Recharge, I am interviewing the talented Dan Lee. Dan has a passion for design and lettering. He takes his mad skills and inspires the world with his inspirational messages. He is always pushing his skills and trying out new lettering styles as

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Fabio Perez // Lightning Fast & a Love for Retro

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Aired December 7, 2016. Episode 195 [youtube id=”9ffxIV986eQ”] This week on Design Recharge I am interviewing my friend Fabio Perez. I am in deep envy and awe of Fabio’s talent and speed. His ability to take a project from concept to design to production at the speed and with a high level of quality leaves

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Type Ed // Type Lessons Make us Stronger

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Aired November 30, 2016. Episode 194. [youtube id=”dFW-BAhsgKs”] TypeEd began out of necessity. While running their design studio, teaching, and jurying design competitions both Rachel Elnar and Michael Stinson noticed a “lack of sensitivity” towards typography in design from designers in the industry. Typographic subtleties communicate magnitudes towards the overall interpretation of the piece

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Veronica Wong // Creating an Online Store

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Aired November 16, 2016. Episode 192 [youtube id=”gEJLuq-PzW4″] Have you thought about taking your side project and turning it into something that is making you a steady stream of additional income? If so this episode is for you. This week on Design Recharge I am interviewing Veronica Wong. Veronica is a designer and lettering artist

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Punctuation formatting

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A quick video about using and formatting punctuation correctly. Where do those silly commas, periods, and other punctuation go? [youtube id=”42P1g4zuBq8″] And another one about hanging punctuation and ellipses in both Adobe InDesign CC and Adobe Illustrator CC. [youtube id=”ytKpGGUb99A”]

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Colin Tierney // Crayligraphy

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Episode 186 Aired September 28, 2016. [youtube id=”JRY4JQT64qs”] This week on Design Recharge I am interviewing Colin Tierney. Colin runs a design firm that specialized in hand lettering, calligraphy, and branding. But he gets really jazzed about helping other people. He has a course that steps you into lettering in a simple and beautiful way.

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Terence Tang // Becoming an Entrepreneur

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Episode 185 Aired September 21, 2016. [youtube id=”uFUzojn87SI”] This week on Design Recharge I am interviewing Terence Tang. He is a lettering artist, brand builder, film maker, solopreneur. Terence talks about how his job was not fulfilling him as a designer and wanted to get back to creating things he believed in. After gaining momentum

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Nathan Yoder // Transitions & Inner Battles

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Aired on Wednesday, August 3, 2016. Episode 179 [youtube id=”CkKX3UwwGxE”] Nathan Yoder always makes my face hurt. What! Yes, because every time I talk to him, I smile so big my face hurts after our conversations. Believe me it is a good thing. He has an infectious, positive energy not to mention his talent and

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