Note: The on-air broadcast of this episode has been preempted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 for Poetry Face-Off. However, the April 26 broadcast will go to air as normal, and you can listen to the whole episode right now (see below).
On this episode of Spark: Words
- Patrick Griffin designs fonts and sells them online at MyFonts
- Virginia Postrel explains the cultural currency of type (full interview)
- Nora and Virginia play Font, Coffee, or Baby Name?
- Jeff MacIntyre uses zenware to focus on his writing (full interview)
- Dane Watkins tests small communities for their collective dysfunctions through his art project Disorder
- Naomi S. Baron on how digital technology affects the way we read and write (full interview)
This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:
- “Feel Break Feel Beat” by p1rj1s
- “Wadidyusay?” by Zap Mama
- “airtone/untitled/”>Reverie” and “airtone/rt52-rm1/”>rt52 rm1″ by airtone
- “Valsinha” by Gerador Zero
- “Downtempo Groove” by Neurowaxx
- “OxyMoron” by KCentric
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I thoroughly enjoyed your podcast of April 23, particularly the interviews with Patrick Griffin and Virginia Postrel on the changing world of type and fonts.
I’m not in the field myself, but I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a few members – including Ray Larabie, a Canadian designer (and lifelong type design hobbyist) who began distributing free fonts online since 1995 and was successful enough that by 2001 he started creating fonts for a living.
I met Mr. Larabie at a party a few years ago, and was surprised to learn that the man behind the font I saw at the advertising agency where I worked
was Canadian.
Mr. Larabie’s career seems to me an interesting illustration of how technology and the Internet have allowed entrepreneurship to flourish even as they spelled the end of an era for traditional type houses.
Mr. Larabie’s free fonts can be found at:
http://www.larabiefonts.com/
His commercial web site is:
http://www.typodermic.com/