Typeradio Podcast

Column by Lidewijde Paris, focusing on the social aspects of typography. This columns analyzes the hidden though public typographic messages in the clear signs of a workman.

What sparked Massimos interest in design. His fascination in Architecture and reminisces about the past and how he met his wife. How they built there company internationally.

Massimo talks about graffiti and its anti social effect. Massimos role as a missionary, spreading the gospel, there are thousands of junk typefaces and only 5 worth using. He talks about New York and why he lives there, American politics and media.

Massimo discusses timeless design versus obsolete design, how fashion can pollute timeless design. Massimos talks about the efficiency of the American Airline identity. Why Massimo strongly doesn’t believe in subcultures and post modernists.

Massimo talks about his dream project, why he wears black. How he collaborates with his wife. Massimo discuses his ego and how he characterizes it. He talks about his life is design, if he designs one thing he can design everything without being superficial, and taking responsibility for design.

We all use dummy texts in our everyday life as typographers and designers. We type them and maybe we read them, although they usually don’t have any content. But have you ever heard a dummy text? For the type specimen exhibition ‘Scala, Bembo, Times und Dolly’ which is shown in the German National Libraries in Frankfurt/Main and Lepizig, Stiftung Buchkunst and Typosition asked Sven Ofner to speak dummy texts and pangrams. (01-06 please check dummy texts 1/2) 07 Blindtext Platzhalter 08 The quick brown fox 09 Vaterschaftsanalyse 10 Blindtext von Geburt an 11 Weiss Antiqua 12 Blindtext kleiner Ulysses 13 Sokrates

We all use dummy texts in our everyday life as typographers and designers. We type them and maybe we read them, although they usually don’t have any content. But have you ever heard a dummy text? For the type specimen exhibition ‘Scala, Bembo, Times und Dolly’ which is shown in the German National Libraries in Frankfurt/Main and Lepizig, Stiftung Buchkunst and Typosition asked Sven Ofner to speak dummy texts and pangrams. (07-13 please check dummy texts 2/2) 01 Blindtext langweilig 02 Nein, meine Texte les ich nicht 03 Capitol/Versalien 04 Lorem ipsum 05 Memphis 06 Psychopharmaka

For all Typophiles out there, after having Jared Benson and Joe Pemberton on Typeradio, here is the Typophile Librarian Tiffany Wardle, on moderating and her other full time job. And on her article about the dark forest of End User License Agreements of typefaces, in which she clarifies the user-unfriendly little lines. Tip of the day: ‘Play with your type’.

Column by Lidewijde Paris, focusing on the social aspects of typography. This columns reveals the mysterious hand movements of a fellow traveler. Why are his hands moving so seducing?

Thomas Phinney talks about technological font developments. Will SING, Adobe’s “next big font thing”, have the same as influence as OpenType in the past? SING, Smart INdependent Glyphlets, is a technology for dynamically extending fonts on the fly. Hear the story in a nutshell.

Phinney the type detective. Revealing forgery by identifying typefaces? Different authorities used Phinney’s expertise on typographic history on their way to justice.

Get to know Adobe’s program manager for fonts and global typography, who starts his day with checking email. Thomas Phinney tells how his interest from DTP gradually moved to type, about Henry the Fifth and playing board games with his daughter.

Column by Lidewijde Paris, focusing on the social aspects of typography. This columns zooms in on the French with their great gestures and their opposite typography.

CMYK – Official anthem of the Typeradio Typo Berlin 2006 Show A spectacular live show featuring the legendary colour girl Miss Kathy, world renowned letter-incarnator The Great Ornaldo who completed the entire alphabet in under six minutes using all his body parts. The Typographic Orchestra were flown in from London to create spectacular finger-licking visual intros. Also a heart wrenching interview with Mr. Comic Sans. And to top it all we were joined for the first time ever by Electric Mustafa to sing a specially written rendition of the all time classic by the Village People, CMYK. Now available for everybody to download and enjoy! Electric Mustafa – CMYK (written, arranged & produced by Mike Meijer / based on YMCA by Jacques Morali, Henry Belolo, Victor Willis) Young girl, you can be blue or pink I said, young girl, with just four kinds of ink I said, young girl, this is the missing link All you got to do is mix ‘em! Young girl, with a touch of Cyan I said young girl, add some Magenta and then I said young girl, a little Black if you can. And you can paint the town deep purple It’s fun to play with CMYK It’s fun to play with the CMYK It is the perfect way for a young girl to play It is more fun than modern ballet! It’s fun to play with CMYK It’s fun to play with CMYK You can get paint yourself green, or even aquamarine The most colorful chick on the scene Young girl, so much colors to choose I said young girl, no need to have the blues I said young girl, so much more you can use All the colors of the rainbow Young girl, here’s a way to gain ground I said young girl, you’re not one-color bound  I said, young girl, you can mix ’em around It’s the way to have a good time

Jay’s dream is to build an ultimate teaching tool and to teach typography: he’s gathering an extensive multilingual keyword-based source database of images related to graphic design, covering everything from cave paintings to current design stuff. At the moment he is searching for contributing graphic design teachers that are willing to supply images and information. Recorded interviews, images, zoom-in pdfs, articles about readability of signage systems in Far East, everything fits! Open your treasure chest for him!