Working: How Typography Can Tell Stories

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🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, guest-host Keisha “TK” Dutes talks to graphic designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson, who specializes in the art of typography. In the interview, Gail talks about falling in love with printed lettering and her decision to become a designer in the first place. Then she discusses some of her specific work, including campaign buttons and posters, playbills for Broadway, and her Emancipation Proclamation U.S. postage stamp. After the interview, TK and co-host June Thomas talk about collecting inspiration from the outside world. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Gail discusses her position on the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee, which helps to select and approve official postage stamps. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	type of storytelling, type is communication and you just you want to tell whatever story you've been given and
0:18.0	trying to not get too much of yourself in it.
0:22.0	I don't want to put a big gal stamp on it. I like to sort of
0:25.8	blend in the background a little bit.
0:29.4	Welcome back to Working. I'm your host June Thomas.
0:33.3	And I'm your other host, T.K. Dutess.
0:36.1	T.K, I have been following your work as an audio producer and a host for many years,
0:41.5	so I'm really glad to have a chance to chat with you but tell me
0:46.0	whose voice did we hear at the top of the show?
0:48.2	June I'm so glad to be here and I'm excited to be with you and that was the amazing Gail Anderson, a writer,
0:56.0	educator, and designer whose first love is typography. She's also a fellow
1:00.8	lover of stuff and keeper of things.
1:04.0	Ooh, I can relate to that.
1:06.0	And why did, why did you want to speak with her?
1:09.6	Because I'm just like a regular Joe that loves typography and I really like the quiet job that typography does of being art and information.
1:20.0	So you know it was really excited to meet Gail and talk to her because she's a professional that looked like me.
1:26.0	She has a similar cultural background and she's also like joyfully ambitious.
1:30.0	Ooh. She was an influential design voice at Rolling Stone.
1:34.0	She's a medalist of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, which is AIGA.
1:40.0	She got their Lifetime achievement award in 2008.
1:43.0	Wow.
1:44.0	And she's given back to her alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, where she's now a chair in their
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