Matthew Carter designed Verdana, the internet font; Helvetica, the most ubiquitous font family in the world; and Bell Centennial, the phone book font.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jody Lewen is the executive director of the Prison University Project, a degree-granting program for the inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California. She's seen first hand the transformative power of knowledge and education and thinks the most important feature of higher education should be accessibility.
Peter Turchi tells Steve Paulson that both map-making and writing place great importance on the empty spaces.
Rebecca A. Demarest brings us this story of flight in a remote island community.
Robert Sullivan has driven across the United States some thirty times. He tells Jim Fleming how he does it, and what happened on the worst trip ever.
Jon Ronson talks about the renaissance of public shaming that's happening online.
Kitty Burns Florey is the author of "Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting." She says handwriting is the original font and talks with Jim Fleming about practicing Palmer method.
Paule Marshall tells Steve Paulson about the neighborhood both she and her cousin were born into, recalls Brooklyn's glorious past as a hotbed of jazz, and explains why so many African-American artists chose to live in France.
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