Speaking of Tad Carpenter and interviews, Tad was featured on TGD a couple years ago:

The fact that I grew up in the hallways of Hallmark Cards really shaped my voice as a designer. A lot of us think of Hallmark Cards as a place where fluffy bunnies and sentimental flower cards are created—there’s some truth to that. But outside of Pixar maybe, there’s nowhere that has this much creativity in one location.

Tad Carpenter on The Great Discontent