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Students of Design

Students of Design

Di: Joseph Israel Raul Bullard
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 Students of Design is a graphic design podcast for students, young professionals, or anyone navigating the design industry. Hosted by Joseph Israel Raul Bullard, a Logo & Visual Identity Designer based in Colorado. Join me as I interview industry professionals and work with them to decode the design industry, talk about what it takes to be successful, and hopefully answer some of those burning questions that all students have. Email your question to studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.2024 Arte Successo personale Sviluppo personale
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  • Ram Reyes – 365 Posters, Self-Sabotage, and I Can Has Cheezburger? – Ep42

    Ram Reyes – 365 Posters, Self-Sabotage, and I Can Has Cheezburger? – Ep42
    Dec 23 2025
    Ram, aka Oversettext, is a graphic designer and content creator in Fresno, California. Shoutout: Lucena. He's probably best known for his 365 project; he designed one poster a day for an entire year. However, I discovered him through his "You know what font that is?" videos on Instagram.He loves Futura Condensed Bold, like LOVES, and he's an advocate for our rights to use Comic Sans without career-ending judgment. Fun Fact: Way before Ram designed vinyl album packaging for Kings of Leon, he worked for a newspaper called The RAMpage. Shoutout: Dympna and FCC. I know, it sounds made up, but it's true. It's as true as his recommendation to start listening to Alan Watts's lectures, and his current beef with illustrations of characters with rubberhose arms and legs. It's even as true as the fact that Ram will be a presenter at Crop in 2026. Get your ticket at cropcons.com.But, fr. What I respect most about Ram's work is the messaging behind it. The best way to experience it is to scroll through all 365 of the posters he designed from 2021 to 2022. You'll find an Air link to all 365 posters in his linktree. Some of my favorites are No. 204, 254, 263, 296, 302, 336, 349. UGH, there are too many to list. Seriously, go check them out.Tune in for a talk about how much "fixing" other people's designs sucks, what he learned from his 365 project, and the weight of responsibility from over 250,000 social media followers. Follow Ram on Instagram @oversettext, watch his videos on YouTube, and buy a shirt on oversettext.com.Fun Fact: Photoshop doesn't crash if you're pure of heart.Questions for this interview.Is there something happening in the design industry right now that’s lingering on your mind or getting under your skin? Feel free to destroy a design hot take if you want.What do you want to say to the people who think you’re trash at playing Fortnite?How did your technical skills as a designer improve, and in contrast, how do you think you grew as a person by completing your 365 project?Why did you almost quit 11 days into the project?Why was your design for poster No.27 specifically the one that made you stop and think, “WOW, now THIS is ME?”Was it difficult for you to come up with a design for the final poster, number 365?Do you think they’re just lazy, or do you think they’re scared? Why do you think they’re holding themselves back?What’s a legitimate regret you’re living with or something you’d do differently because it haunts you to this day?What kind of gravity or responsibility do you feel as someone on the internet with over 250,000 followers? Does the thought of that many people consuming your content affect what you choose to say?Is it nitch or niche?Where do you rank the “I Can Has Cheezburger” meme on the list of greatest designs of all time? ---If you LIKE what you hear, please subscribe and keep listening. Sharing this episode with someone is the best way to support the podcast. If you LOVE what you hear and want to help me keep the interviews coming—consider buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi.Also, I'm always looking for questions from listeners. If there's a burning question you want to hear answered on the podcast, please email it to me at studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.Follow @studentsofdesignpod on Instagram for updates, episode drops, and behind-the-scenes content.The music you hear on the podcast is Accident by Timothy Infinite and PUSH !T by Nbhd Nick.studentsofdesign.simplecast.com
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    1 ora e 15 min
  • Jen Wagner – Creative Market, Self-Worth, and Font Licensing – Ep41

    Jen Wagner – Creative Market, Self-Worth, and Font Licensing – Ep41
    Nov 28 2025
    Jen is a Nashville-based independent type designer and resource creator for creative business owners. You might be familiar with some of her best-selling typefaces, like Perfectly Nineties, Editor's Note, and Founder's Hand. However, long before her formal education in type design from Type@Cooper, Jen got her start on Creative Market. She created and uploaded font after font, even though she didn't know the rules and guidelines of type design. The best part is IT WORKED, because people bought and used her fonts, and that was enough to inspire her to keep doing it. Surprisingly, Jen only wanted to make enough money to pay her water bill and eat at Chipotle once a week. But now, brands like Sprouts, Victoria's Secret, Kohl's, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Sweetgreen are using her typefaces. She's come a long way from wanting to be an orthopedic surgeon in Colorado; her love for type design has gone from hobby to career, and she's LITERALLY sold a digital product every single day of this year.Tune in for a talk about getting started on Creative Market, her struggles with tying her self-worth to her income, and finding the balance between making type that's accessible for everyone and becoming a world-class type foundry. Follow Jen on Instagram @jenwagnertype, and explore her typefaces on her website jenwagner.co. If you sign up for her email list, you'll get 20% off your first order!Questions for this interview.Which of these options do you think affects readability more: a combination of font size, leading, and line length, OR a combination of color, weight, and stroke contrast?Jen, who the hell do you think you are, thinking you could get accepted by Type@Cooper with no formal education in graphic design or typography?So, if you compare your designs from a few months before and after attending Type@Cooper, how did they change, and how are they better?Can you think of something you learned from being a type designer that you wouldn’t have learned otherwise, that is also something you believe every regular-ass graphic designer should know?How bad were the first 25 fonts you made and uploaded to Creative Market?If you knew just a little more about type design when you were getting started, do you think you would have gotten in your own way and held yourself back from releasing your first 25 fonts?What changed with Creative Market around 2021, and why did you feel it was the right time to explore different options?How many of the last 30 days would you say someone licensed a typeface or purchased any kind of digital product from you?You've struggled with your self-worth. Have you gained enough experience and confidence to grow out of that way of thinking, or do you still find yourself struggling with that perception of yourself?How difficult is it to balance making type that’s accessible for independent designers with a desire to be known as a world-class type foundry?How often do you design a typeface and think, “This is it,” this one’s gonna be my new best-seller, only to realize, nope, no one’s interested in buying it?Can you identify your typefaces immediately when you encounter them in the world? Have you ever come across a typeface you thought was yours but turned out to be someone else’s? ---If you LIKE what you hear, please subscribe and keep listening. Sharing this episode with someone is the best way to support the podcast. If you LOVE what you hear and want to help me keep the interviews coming—consider buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi.Also, I'm always looking for questions from listeners. If there's a burning question you want to hear answered on the podcast, please email it to me at studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.Follow @studentsofdesignpod on Instagram for updates, episode drops, and behind-the-scenes content.The music you hear on the podcast is Accident by Timothy Infinite and PUSH !T by Nbhd Nick.studentsofdesign.simplecast.com
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    1 ora e 4 min
  • James Edmondson – Counterspace Equals Letterspace, Toasters, and Vectorizing Type – Ep40

    James Edmondson – Counterspace Equals Letterspace, Toasters, and Vectorizing Type – Ep40
    Nov 18 2025
    James is an author, type designer, and the founder of OHno Type Company, a digital type foundry based in San Jose, California. You might license some of his wildly imaginative fonts, including Beastly, Ohno Fatface, Degular, Polymath, Regrets, Obviously, and Hobeaux. Before he got his start in the bowels of graphic design, James studied design at California College of the Arts. Then he learned how to cast typographic spells while attending the Hogwarts of type design, AKA Type Media at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague, Netherlands. James is also an educator and a podcaster—check out his podcast, Ohno Radio—and swears that Canson marker paper is holy in the world of sketching. If you geek out over naming, you'll be excited to learn that James almost named his foundry "The Spaghetti Factory" or "The American International Type Company." I don't know how to make those options make sense, but hey, man, back OFF, Life's a Thrill, and Fonts Are Chill.Tune in for a talk about James's number one rule of letterspacing, his father's love for toasters, and the dominance of low-contrast sans-serif typefaces. Follow James on Instagram @ohnotypeco, purchase his fonts on his website ohnotype.co, or add them on Adobe Fonts, and read this blog post if you want to get started in type design. THEN, read his book, The Ohno Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design, to level up even more.Questions for this interview.Why do you design a specific set of characters before others, and how does that make you more efficient as a type designer?Can you explain the “Counterspace Equals Letterspace Technique,” also known as your “Rule #1 of Spacing?”Another technique is something you call “Three at a time.” Why three, and what do you mean by that?Which of these do you think is less important? Spacing or drawing good vectors?Why shouldn’t someone digitize their letterform sketches in Adobe Illustrator, and what makes applications like RoboFont and Glyphs so much better?Can you tell us what you learned from Jesse Ragan and his process for vectorizing a typeface called Showcard Stunt?Your father was an English teacher for 40 years. What did he say he should have been instead?Do you think you’re following your passion in the way your father didn’t follow his?What you do as a type designer is very specialized. Have you ever felt like you backed yourself into a corner or regretted not becoming a more well-rounded designer?Selling fonts on your website generates around 50% of Ohno's revenue, and Adobe Fonts accounts for another 40%. Is this still accurate? Can you explain how Adobe tracks sales and how that works?Why wouldn’t a type foundry choose to distribute with Adobe Fonts?How do you decide which ideas to pursue and actually turn into digital fonts?You recently released a book called The Ohno Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design. Who’s it for? What’s inside it? What are we gonna learn by reading it? ---If you LIKE what you hear, please subscribe and keep listening. Sharing this episode with someone is the best way to support the podcast. If you LOVE what you hear and want to help me keep the interviews coming—consider buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi.Also, I'm always looking for questions from listeners. If there's a burning question you want to hear answered on the podcast, please email it to me at studentsofdesignpod@gmail.com.Follow @studentsofdesignpod on Instagram for updates, episode drops, and behind-the-scenes content.The music you hear on the podcast is Accident by Timothy Infinite and PUSH !T by Nbhd Nick.studentsofdesign.simplecast.com
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    1 ora e 1 min
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