Today on Read Between the Leading Aaron and I got a chance to interview Scott Thomas, Design Director of the Obama campaign. We got to talk to him about his work on the campaign and his new book Designing Obama. You can listen here or get the podcast on iTunes.
If you haven’t checked out Read Between the Leading before, it’s a design podcast I co-host with a friend. We try to have interesting guests on to discuss a wide variety of design related topics.
I just posted episode 18 of Read Between the Leading:
This week on the show we talk all about type on the web. We discuss recent developments like Typekit, Font Bureau’s Permission table, and Spiekermann’s new typeface Axel. We also talk a bit about our own idea for a non-profit type foundry, a foundry based on donations that commissions type designers to design web fonts we can release for free on the web.
We’d love to hear your feedback about our non-profit type foundry idea. We’d also love to hear any news (or any corrections) about some of this new technology we’re talking about. Feel free to leave us a comment here, email us at readbetweentheleading@gmail.com, or find us on twitter @rbtlshow.
Shownotes for Episode 18
Font Bureau’s post about Permission tables
This week on Read Between the Leading I talked to Aaron all about spec work. It’s a topic that gets designers fired up but seems to keep coming up as places like CrowdSpring and 99Designs gain more traction. I am personally against doing spec work as a designer, but I’d love to hear what other designers or even clients think about it or stories they may have. We’re giving away a $100 gift certificate to MyFonts on the show, so if you’ve got a great spec work story or thoughts on the topic, call it into our voicemail 646-402-5686 extension 20248. If it’s a great call we can play back on our show, you could win that $100 from MyFonts. Also, you could win with a great reply to our question on YouTube.
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