Live From DesignThinkers Toronto with Carl Shura!

25/11/2024 1h 0min Temporada 1 Episodio 218
Live From DesignThinkers Toronto with Carl Shura!

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Send us a textThis episode features an in-person conversation at Canada’s largest graphic design conference with type aficionado, Carl Shura! In this episode you’ll hear LOTS of excellent type geekery, such as: The history of the typeface Cooper Black and the ways it’s connected to Carl as a personThe idea that letterforms are just ‘blobs with defects’How Carl worked backwards from a few letters to reconstruct an iconic Toronto building signHow to approach the development of a revival typefaceThe ways that tools and our physical human bodies shape our understanding of how type should lookCarl’s delightful views on Comic SansAnd so much more!If you’d like to see some of the visuals related to what’s discussed in this episode, please check out the show notes at www.talkpaperscissors.info. This conversation is part of a guest lecture series in GCM 230 - Typography at The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University.I'm all about interesting projects with interesting people! Let's Connect on the web or via Instagram. :)