Learn from history's most influential type designers. 📖📱
I study their lives, careers, and minds in search of ideas you can apply to your own work.
"When you are trying to teach the great concepts at work it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who developed them. I think that you learn economics better if you make Adam Smith your friend. That sounds funny, making friends among the eminent dead, but it is way better than just giving the basic concepts." - Charlie Munger
Titans of Type is a masterclass in the history of graphic design, type design, and printing.
What I learned from reading The Bentons: How an American Father and Son Changed the Printing Industry.
Morris Fuller Benton was the most secretive type designer in the world, and while having designed over 200 different typefaces, is not widely known. Join me in this conversation as we study...
Published 03/27/24
What I learned from reading Frederic Goudy
Frederic Goudy was the most famous type designer in the world, the designer of over 100 different typefaces, the author of a number of published works, and a public lecturer and teacher. Join me in this conversation as we study the life, work, and...
Published 12/31/23