Lila Symons Full Interview

Our full interview with Tré Seals from Season One conducted on 8/28/23.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Our full interview with Lila Symons from Season One conducted on 8/16/23.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Our full interview with Mark Jamra and Neil Patel from Season One conducted on 8/9/23.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Our full interview with Edd Harrington from Season One conducted on 8/2/23.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Our full interview with Ben Kiel and Jesse Ragan from Season One conducted on 8/1/23.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Our full interview with Ryan Bugden from Season One conducted on 7/20/23.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Tré Seals founded Vocal Type in 2016 in order to address how the lack of diversity of race, ethnicity, and gender in type has led to a lack of diversity in thought systems, ideas, and creations. Each typeface Vocal Type produces highlights a piece of history, from the Women's Suffrage Movement in Argentina to the Civil Rights Movement in America. Through Vocal Type, Tré seeks to introduce diverse perspectives from design communities that still have a small voice in the design industry. For TypeCraft, Tré takes us on the journey of creating Vocal Type through to where it has taken him: working with Spike Lee, crafting typography for political campaigns, and even designing a font inspired by his own life story.Subscribe to TypeCraft Season One at the Proof&Co. Store to receive full interviews and a comprehensive visual companion to all interviews throughout the season.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Lila Symons is an independent typeface designer, lettering artist, and graphic designer who has worked and consulted with many in-house design teams in her 18 years of working. For TypeCraft, Lila shares her stories of working for big brands like Martha Stewart and creating dozens of custom typefaces for Hallmark. We explore what it's like to design custom fonts for in-house design teams, how working as a designer inspired her to change career directions and work as a typeface designer, and how her unique experiences in design took her on an unconventional but impactful career path.Subscribe to TypeCraft Season One at the Proof&Co. Store to receive full interviews and a comprehensive visual companion to all interviews throughout the season.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

JamraPatel is a studio creating innovative typeface systems for use in under-served communities around the world. Run by Mark Jamra and Neil Patel, JamraPatel uses research and historical knowledge to create useful designs that are respectful of the needs and cultures of specific language communities. For TypeCraft, Mark and Neil went behind the scenes of Kigelia, a typeface system created by JamraPatel that provides typographic richness and technical functionality previously unavailable for several languages on the African continent.Subscribe to TypeCraft Season One at the Proof&Co. Store to receive full interviews and a comprehensive visual companion to all interviews throughout the season.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick

Edd Harrington is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Colophon, a human-centric agency for typography based in London. Colophon has developed typographic solutions for some of the largest brands around the world, including Instagram, Cadillac, and Burger King. For TypeCraft, Edd discusses with us about the process of working with such large scale clients, where there is room for risk-taking in brand differentiation, and what it's like to see your work out in the world.Subscribe to TypeCraft Season One at the Proof&Co. Store to receive full interviews and a comprehensive visual companion to all interviews throughout the season.Credits:Interviews conducted by Kyle ReadAudio edited by Andrew SfirisAudio assistance and music production by Eric ReadProduced by Joshua Dick