In this episode, Steve sits down with CJ Dunn, a typeface designer originally from Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, on the steps of a Kichijōji café in Tokyo — a neighbourhood he chose deliberately for its quiet creative energy and community of artists. Raised on the North Shore, in Pauoa Valley, Kaimuki, and Idyllwild, California, CJ learned architectural lettering from his father as a kid, an influence that still shapes his work today.
The conversation traces his path from teenage skate rat to typeface designer, and lands on his proudest project — a typeface rooted in Hawaiʻi that found its way, unprompted, onto the jerseys and broadcast graphics of the WSL's Pipe Challenger. A conversation about lineage — architectural, cultural, creative — and putting your own history into the shape of a letter.
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