This show is a little different than our previous shows. If you’ve been wondering why there hasn’t be an episode posted for a few weeks, it’s because Justin and Shawn have been travelling. Shawn went to Justin’s homeland and Justin went to Shaw

Ep.11 – “The most important developments in humanity” with Working Format

Oct 4th, 2014 1h 7m

For Episode 11, we chat with Ross Milne of Working Format. We discussed Mr. Milne’s experience studying type design in the Type and Media Masters program at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. We talk about the founding of Working Format, ho

Ep.10 – “… Is Like MasterChef Junior” with Clou Studio Inc.

Sep 9th, 2014 45m 14s

For Episode 10, we chat with Ryan Romero and Travis Collier of Clou Studio Inc.. We cracked beers and discussed how they met, started a design company, and realized their practice is like MasterChef Junior. We talk about their design values, wh

Ep. 9 – “What? You did that?” with Post Projects

Aug 22nd, 2014 51m 25s

For Episode 9, we chat with Alex Nelson and Beau House of Post Projects. We chat about how they met, started a design company, and decided to call it Post Projects. We talk about their design values, the Post Projects studio space, and ‘good gu

Ep. 8 – “We have to do this.” with Tom Chung of Umbra Shift

Aug 3rd, 2014 45m 52s

For Episode 8, we chat with Tom Chung, a designer working for Umbra, a Toronto-based homeware design company. He is the creative lead of their product line Umbra Shift that will be launching in Vancouver August 5th, 2014, at Vancouver Special.

Ep. 7 – “I am a tool” with Jace Kim

Jul 25th, 2014 53m 3s

Jace shares with us about about his passion for comics, his search for originality as an artist, failing to get into art school and then getting into art school to realize his conception of art was wrong. We chatted about his work at The Sequen

Ep.6 – “I had to kill my salami!” with Jane Koo

Jun 28th, 2014 44m 35s

We sat down with Jane Koo at the Making Conversation Studio. We talked about Jane’s childhood growing up in Seoul – surrounded by barf and protests. We talked about her first memories of design, how she submitted her portfolio to get into desig

Ep.5 – “Nobody would ever sleep with the 2 in Univers” with Peter Cocking of PeterCo Design

Jun 18th, 2014 1h 24m

We sat down with Peter Cocking in the beautiful studio of Greystone Books. We talked about Peter’s childhood passion for drawing comics and making mistakes as a junior designer. He told us tales of designing on the 1st generation Mac and being

Ep.4 – “Jeff Wall! Please don’t listen to this podcast!” with Albert Law

May 30th, 2014 34m 54s

Albert Law is an independant photographer and graphic designer from Vancouver, Canada. During this episode, we celebrate the explicit tag, learn that Shawn and Justin were chubby in high school, where questions for the podcast are written, how

Ep.3 – “You don’t do yoga; you are yoga” with Karston Smith from LuLuLemon

May 15th, 2014 50m 1s

Karston Smith is a graphic designer and more at LuLuLemon. We talk about getting building permits at City Hall and how wack their yellow highlighters are. We come to the conclusion that when you’re learning something you’re interested in, learn

Ep.2 – “Hashtag Respect” with Trim Projects

May 1st, 2014 55m 1s

Kriza is a designer, art director, ad-person, publication designer, and founder of Trim Projects. She doesn’t know where she’s from and neither does Shawn. Shawn just applied for Canadian citizenship, so he has to tone down his jokes.Contact

Ep.1 – “What’s the name of this podcast?” with Studio Faculty

Apr 19th, 2014 40m 30s

We learn about how Vince and Alvin met in “jail” and struggle to define ‘work’ as graphic designers. Alvin’s grandmother doesn’t understand his occupation. They tell us how they name their typefaces and how some of their fonts are unfortunately

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