That's not as enticing to me, it's more of like actually, you know, doing something for the community and leaving something for the younger generation that hopefully inspires and, you know, makes them want to create something as well has been much more important to me than you know creating a bunch of money via graph design so.

That was Sebastian Garber, the senior designer at the Anchorage Museum.

Sebastian has been a graphic designer for about 12 years now, and in that time he's worked for large companies,

small firms, and a magazine.

He says that the most important things he's learned in those 12 years is being able to adapt

to changing trends in design and communication and the importance of a strong team.

Sebastian is currently working on designing a typeface that includes Alaska Native languages.

It will be a typeface stripped of geographic references and that will encompass all the necessary diacritics.

Diacritics are accent marks that indicate pronunciation.

And when finished, it will become the official font of the Anchorage Museum.

So here he is, Sebastian Garber. Welcome to Chattermarks, a podcast of the Anchorage Museum dedicated to exploring Alaska's

identity through the creative and critical thinking of ideas, past, present, and future.

My name is Cody Liska you and I grew up together and have been friends for a long time.

Yes, quite a bit. You know, I was thinking about this as I was

writing questions down, but I remember even as kids you and your mom would always go to the museum and even when you weren't

living in Alaska as an adult you and your mom would continue that routine of going to the museum?

Yeah, it is.

Every time I come home, my mom and I are always like,

all right, what's going on at the museum ever since I was a kid?

And I'm grateful that I work here and then I get it get to

like you know help out because it's throughout the years been a great place to come and visit

and really charge your brain up with some new ideas.

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