Laura Worthington: Award-Winning Typeface Designer - Epi. 238, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

I had Laura Worthington on today and it became one of the most
interesting podcasts I've ever had because I know so little about
this field, even though it's an art form. 

Laura makes fonts.  She comes from a calligraphy background
and it's so unique because at a very young age, she knew exactly
what she wanted to do. She was focused and completely obsessed
with the written word.

Laura is one of probably 1500 people in the world that actually
makes their entire living from designing fonts. It turns out that
she's done fonts for everything. In fact, in my gallery, one of
the fonts on the wall for Shonot Begay's work is one of hers. The
movie 'Joker' with Joaquin Phoenix has some of her fonts in it as
well.

You can almost go down just about any road and see her fonts,
either on billboards or on your newspaper and so it's a
fascinating world she lives in. It's technical too, but that's
the interesting part - trying to understand (for me, somebody who
is really a neophyte with all of this) what you do to curate and
create fonts and just the technology and the language of what it
is to be somebody who does this for a living.

I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did. She's very dynamic
and I would recommend watching this on YouTube if you can because
she is very animated and that just adds to the whole joy of the
podcast. So Laura Worthington on episode 238 of Art Dealer
Diaries Podcast.