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Typeradio Podcast

Summary: Type is speech on paper, typeradio is speech on type and design. Typeradio is featuring the worlds most popular graphic designer and dicuss with them about type. Finally graphic design and type gets a voice.

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 Bruno Monguzzi 1/2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:14

Bruno Monguzzi is a Swiss graphic designer who studied graphic design in Geneva in the late 1950s, and typography, photography and design psychology in London. During his studies in London reading an article in Neue Grafik about Italian contemporary design he was attracted by the work of Studio Boggeri, at the time the leading design and advertising agency in Italy. Bruno explains how he ended up working there and talks about the most important design lesson he learned from Antonio Boggeri during his first month at Studio Boggeri. Recorded at Tÿpo St.Gallen 2011, Switzerland.

 Dennis Elbers 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:05

Dennis Elbers is a curator, editor, writer, lecturer and organizer, specializing in contemporary graphic design and its social relevance. He talked to us about organizing the Graphic Design Festival in Breda. Where the first edition of this biannual event lasted five weeks, the second in 2010 took three weeks and the 2012 edition started in a new setup of five days. For the programme of 2012 they came up with a theme in which four different attitudes towards graphic design are displayed: the designer as a journalist, a scientist, an agitator or a poet. Recorded at the 2012 Graphic Design Festival in Breda, The Netherlands.

 Tirso Frances 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:41

At the What Design Can Do-conference we had a talk with Tirso Frances, director and co-founder (with Ron Faas) of Utrecht based design studio DieTwee. They started DieTwee in their 2nd year of art-school, believing they had the wrong teachers and therefore felt the need to organize something for theirselves. Now, 24 years later, the studio had grown from two up to 30 people, and they are revitalizing the studio’s strategy by bringing in a new art-director and opening discussion. Tirso shares his dislike for design-pitches with us and gives a nice insight in the studio’s client history through the years. We felt the need to ask him about this intangible Utrecht’s design flavour that’s been going on for years. He answers and tells us how the city of Utrecht has affected the studio design- and clientwise. Recorded at What Design Can Do 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 The Stone Twins 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:33

We talked to the Irish born Amsterdam-based Stone Twins, consisting of twin brothers Declan and Garech Stone. We obviously talk about their roots and their creative partnership; after 20 years of living and working in Holland, are they Irish or Dutch Designers? They use the design for the Dutch Post Office as an interesting example about how Dutch Design has developed in the last 20 years. In the role of head of the Man & Communication-department at the Design Academy Eindhoven (which they resigned to in june 2013) they see themselves as cheerleaders, cheering and provoking their students towards a reaction of any kind. They want them to be prepared for the real world, that needs relevant designers with a realistic attitude and creative ideas, more dialogue, less monologue. Recorded at What Design Can Do 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 Ina Jurga 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:31

What design can do? That was a question asked to Ina Jurga of WASH United, an organization fighting for safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for all people around the world. One of their goals is to make toilets more sexy, we ask her how design can actually help achieving this. Her lifetime evolvement in this organization, started as a student, triggered by an ecological focussed teacher. Ina tells us why WASH United connects football to their activities and how lack of hygiene isn’t only a health problem but an economical problem as well. Recorded at What Design Can Do 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 Esteban Ucros 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:12

Inbetween the white noise in this interview (for which we apologise), you’ll find the nice words of Colombian graphic designer Esteban Ucros, who dedicates his Popular de Lujo blog to painted advertising he finds all over the streets of his hometown Bogotá. He didn’t start the project out of political reasons, just the will to focus on the daily but nonetheless inspirational stuff that is so easily taken for granted. The blog functions as a platform to present and preserve the unknown street artists that have been around for years. Working in the corporate branding world himself, we asked him if he ever had the chance to combine the two and how he thinks the project will evolve in the future. Recorded at What Design Can Do 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 Harmen Liemburg 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:56

We sat down with Harmen Liemburg, Dutch silkscreen wizard with a keen eye for color and detail. Beside his work as a visual designer and design-writer, he also runs the silkscreen workshop at the Rietveld Academy, together with his old teacher Kees Maas. He tells us why he loves the craft of silkscreening so much and how he started his career as a cartographer. He has a big fascination for both the United States and Japan, which he tries to visit as often as he can. No wonder his design heroes are Japanese and American as well. We end this talk with the question how he would like to be remembered, and he replies with an interesting paradox about work, life and time. Recorded at What Design Can Do 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 Will Hudson 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:30

Almost all designers must have heard of the It’s Nice That-blog, online since april 2007. We had a talk with co-founder Will Hudson, who started the blog as a personal visual bookmarking-space, because he was just bad with names. We think that’s a valid reason. Will’s partner Alex Bec joined in 2008, and since then the blog has grown into a company with a firm team of seven people art-directing, publishing and curating. We asked Will some spot-on questions about how they finance the blog, how they select and what’s new for the future. And he explains us why there are no comments allowed on the blog. Recorded at Facing Pages 2012, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

 Simon Esterson 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:50

In this interview Simon Esterson, art director and co-owner of Eye Magazine, kicks off with an impressive list of rituals and superstitiousness. Simon continues about how perfection may be a dangerous thing for designers. We would like to know if four issues of Eye per year is enough and how they select content. He gives us a beautiful insight in how he balances every day as an art director, owner, paper lover and design-geek. In his extensive career as a freelance magazine and newspaper consultant (he doesn’t call himself a graphic designer), he found out that designing a newspaper is quite similar to building up a huge lego-set and that ads aren’t just undesirable pages in a magazine. Recorded at Facing Pages 2012, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

 Rejane Dal Bello 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:30:34

We had a talk with graphic designer Rejane Dal Bello at the What Design Can Do-conference in Amsterdam. This strong visual designer never stops working, drawing and visualizing ideas. We asked her why she left her home country Brasil to study in New York and The Netherlands. She tells us that all of her decisions regarding life and design are based upon the ability to develop herself and to add something to the world. This is the reason she doesn’t mind working pro-bono for projects that matter, like developing a visual identity for a Peruvian Children’s hospital. We also talk about her heroes, teaching and if she calls herself a Dutch designer after working at Studio Dumbar for 8 years. She tells us life happens and that she can never really plan ahead, recently that brought her to work in London at Wolff Olins. Recorded at the What Design Can Do 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 Laura Meseguer 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:12

Laura Meseguer is a Barcalonese type designer, known for her custom lettering and joyful typefaces. She started to play with letters at a very early age in her father’s letterpress-company. In the early 90’s she moved on towards playing with digital letters and started her own foundry called Type-Ø-Tones. She definitely became a type designer after studying at the post-graduate Type]Media course in the Hague. We talk about her typo-mags series and how this project came together. And she shares her views on how type design is evolving in an age where everyone with a computer has the tools to create a typeface. Recorded at Facing Pages 2012, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

 Joost van der Steen 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:31

At the Facing Pages festival 2012 we talked with organizer Joost van der Steen, who’s quite an enterprising person. This interaction designer is partner in design studio OK Parking – together with graphic designer William van Giessen. To celebrate the first birthday of a blog they were keeping up, they surprised their contributors with the publication of OK Periodical magazine, which eventually led to a series of eight issues. Driven by their love for independent magazines, on top of that they decided to organize the OK festival in 2010, about independent magazines powered by crowdsourcing. We talk with Joost about all his initiatives and we ask him if he has some advise for people who want to start up their own magazine. We end the talk by reflecting some nice lectures that were given at the first edition of the festival. Recorded at Facing Pages 2012, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

 Charlotte Cheetham 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:42

We had a talk with Charlotte Cheetham, founder of the Manystuff-blog which she initially started in 2006 because her boyfriend studied graphic design. Being a communication-student herself she was intrigued with graphic design, especially books, and started to collect and publish projects and designers that she liked. Besides updating the blog almost daily, she also curates exhibitions and researches the field. She finds it necessary to create this extra dimension to her work, next to the flatness of a screen. We asked her some big questions about the changing and maybe generalizing world of graphic design and the way different countries approach design-education. She shares her opinion about the matter with us, even as her plans for the future. Recorded at Facing Pages 2012, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

 Gabriele Wilson 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:43

During a year of teaching English in the Czech republic, the Eastern European typography on book covers caught Gabriele Wilson’s eye. When she came back to the States she started a study Graphic Design at Parsons. Nowadays she’s a teacher there and runs her own design studio in New York focused on book cover design. We asked her if she sees trends in book design, not only in the visual sense but also in the way designers are approached for jobs. She shares her extensive experience with us. The journey towards the design is the most interesting part of the job for her. She loves to read the manuscripts and to do research about the diverse subjects of her projects. We think this kind of explains why she secretly wants to work for the FBI. Recorded at Tÿpo St.Gallen 2011, Switzerland.

 Jost Hochuli 1/1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:41

In Sankt Gallen we had a talk with none other than Jost Hochuli, the legendary Swiss graphic designer and typographer. He is an expert in book design and also well known for his writing. In his long and exceptional career he got the opportunity to study and work with a lot of design legends, such as Adrian Frutiger. We want to know all about it! He explains how he sees book design as a ‘Gesammt Kunstwerk’ and what he thinks about badly designed books. He shares his remarkable career with us, including how he cofounded the VGS, the Sankt Gallen publishing house. And how he (being almost 80 years old) only recently got the opportunity to actually teach in his own field. Recorded at Tÿpo St.Gallen 2011, Switzerland.

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