Typeradio Podcast

Sven Ehmann is editor at Die Gestalten publishers in Berlin. He talks about his working process and how he juggles multiple projects. He moves on to discussing the origins of the book Dataflow at Die Gestalten and talks about the field of design ...

Barbara Hahn and Christine Zimmermann are Von B und C, a design studio in Bern, Switzerland. They start by explaining how they got interested in infographics, visualising data as their graduation project, and how they work together (of coarse their ...

Jeroen Breen, Rob Stolte and Maarten Dullemeijer are Autobahn, design collective from Utrecht, The Netherlands. They first describe the special project they did for their presentation at 33pt in Dortmund, they tell us how they met and how they got ...

Rob Meek talks about the roots of Fontstruct with his MeekFM typographic synthesizer. He speaks about the genesis of Fontstruct and his thoughts on the success of the platform. Recorded at the 33pt conference 2009 in Dortmund. Fontstruct :: ...

Martin Majoor discusses the new typeface for the Dutch government (Rijksoverheid Serif and Sans). His differing roles as a book designer and as a type designer. He reflects on the lack of female type designers and in graphic design in general. He speaks ...

Martin Majoor discusses his first type and lettering books given to him by his grandfather and his first typeface. He recounts his art school days in Arnhem and his current teaching practice and teaching philosophies. He speaks in regards to the ...

Type designer Jos Buivenga talks about how he got started in type design, his habits and balancing his time for type design with his art direction work. Buivenga shares his thoughts and ideas on selling fonts online, his type design heroes and discusses ...

Type designer Jos Buivenga talks about how he got started in type design, his habits and balancing his time for type design with his art direction work. Buivenga shares his thoughts and ideas on selling fonts online, his type design heroes and discusses ...

Icelandic designer/illustrator Siggi Eggertsson speaks about getting started as a designer and his first job for an art community in his hometown. Reflecting on illustration versus graphic design, he discusses the idea of categories in a professional ...

Henning Brehm (aka Design Tourist) is a graphic designer that specializes in work for the film industry. Under the label Schein Berlin he creates fake labels, packaging, logos, signs and documents for German tv productions and international block buster ...

Brian Lucid is the Associate Professor and Graphic Design Program coordinator at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Brian highlights what can be learnt from game design, what role narrative plays in game design and the subsequent ...

Brian Lucid is the Associate Professor and Graphic Design Program coordinator at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts. He speaks about his inability to relax; his early forays in art school and his brief stint as a type ...

Italian graphic design collective MEAT talk about their favourite designers as well as Italian designer Bruno Munari. MEAT often give workshops and they speak specifically about their workshop at the Imagine iT conference in Bologna. They round up the ...

The Italian graphic design collective MEAT give insight into the gestation of MEAT and give a brief history of the collective. They speak of their past graffiti writing, their clients and the types of projects that come through their studio. Being the ...

Cinzia Ferrara is an architect and graphic designer. She is professor of the Master course in design at the Laboratory of Visual Communication in Palermo. Ferrara speaks about the mafia in Palermo and the use of graphic design and propaganda to fight ...

Heather Shaw is a graphic design and digital media lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Heather speaks about her teaching philosophy and the importance of teaching interactive and information design in graphic design programs today. She ...

An impression of the Robothon 2009 conference on type design and type technology, held in March at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. You’ll hear Paul van der Laan, Frank Griesshammer, Tal Lemming, Kai Bernau, James Grieshaber, Andy Clymer and ...

Bruce Connew continues with the importance of travel in his work, especially in Burma, and the process of constructing books. He concludes by explaining his project I Must Behave, exhibited at the same time as TypeSHED11, at Mary Newton Gallery. I ...

Bruce Connew is a photographer based in New Zealand. He tells us about differences and similitudes between photography and design, about objectiveness in photography. He describes the social and political aspect of his work, as well as the role of ...