The Tiny Typecast
by Glenn Fleishman
We have conversations about the history of printing and type paired with how this gives insight to people today. What does the past still have to teach us? And what are we learning fresh today about things that happened 20, 50, 500 years ago? Each episode, new guests. Hosted by Glenn Fleishman.
Episodes
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Dennis Duncan and Paula Clarke Bain on Indexing
We talk about indexes with the author of the book Index, a History of the, Dennis Duncan, and its indexer, Paula Clarke Bain. Modern indexes date back eight centuries, and Dennis’s book takes us from the beginning to the present. Paula has worked for over 15 years as a professional indexer and...
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A 19th Century 3D Printer: an Audiobook Chapter
Electrotyping was the 3D printing of its day. An electro-chemical process that deposited dissolved copper or other metals onto a prepared object, it effectively allowed creating exact duplicates of a page of type to create a durable printing plate, or to produce a mold (a “matrix”) from type...
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Phil Abel & Nick Gill, Two UK Printers Across an Era
Phil Abel is a letterpress printer in London, who started his Hand and Eye Press in 1985 with a modest array of printing gear on the road towards his current set up with Heidelberg presses, and the ability to use both metal and wood type and produce modern photopolymer plates in house. He…
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Daniel Schneider, Industrial Archeologist
Daniel Schneider (Instagram: rustedrebar) is a letterpress printer with an undergraduate degree in journalism and a master’s in industrial archeology, a field I am dying to talk to him about. His research has centered on the transformation of nineteenth century artisanal skills within the context...
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Grendl Löfkvist, a Blackletter Aficionado and Printer
Grendl Löfkvist is a calligrapher, letterpress printer, and former offset press operator, and the education director at Letterform Archive in San Francisco, California. She teaches extensively, including at the City College of San Francisco, at the San Francisco Center for the Book, in the Type...
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Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Associate Curator in the Cary Collection at RIT, Historian, and Letterpress Printer
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, the Associate Curator in the Cary Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, discusses the history of the collection, the nature of preserving the past, and the rapid development of printing—especially how quickly reproduction sped up—across the early part of the...
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Alix Christie, Author of Gutenberg’s Apprentice, Reporter, and Letterpress Printer
Alix Christie wrote the book on Gutenberg. Her novel, Gutenberg’s Apprentice, puts us squarely in the milieu in which Gutenberg formed his studio, told through the eyes of his apprentice Peter Schöffer, also a historical figure. Alix’s non-fiction work includes reporting across decades as a...
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Steve Finan, Memories of the Last Days of Metal Printing
Steve Finan is journalist who writes regularly about language and the misunderstandings that result every time we open our mouths. His column “Oh My Word” appears in The Courier of Dundee, Scotland, and other DC Thomson publications, where he is the heritage unit editor. He's the author of…
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Toshi Omagari, Type Designer and Video Game Font Historian
Toshi Omagari studied Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University, Japan, and then got his master's in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in England. From 2012 to 2020, he worked at Monotype, one of the leading digital type foundries, with roots that date back well over a...
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David Shields, Wood Type Historian (Tiny Typecast)
David Shields is the preeminent expert on the history of wood type, and currently the chair of the Department of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he teaches design. David previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Design Custodian...
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Briar Levit, a Historian of Forgotten Figures of Design Past
Briar Levit is a book designer, filmmaker, and former art director of Bitch magazine. She has taught graphic design for years, and is an associate professor of graphic design at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She directed the film Graphic Means about the phototype and paste-up...
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Jim Moran, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (The Tiny Typecast)
On this first episode in the new run in 2021, please welcome Jim Moran, the master printer and collections officer at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Hamilton is a unique institution in all sorts of ways. It preserves the manufacturing history and remaining wood...
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Jeremy Burge, Chief Emoji Officer of Emojipedia (The Tiny Typecast)
Emoji are the first kind of symbolic element designed to read only online that’s also difficult, sometimes impossible, to reproduce accurately in print—or in a static electronic document, like a PDF. In this episode, I talk with Jeremy Burge, the chief emoji officer of Emojipedia, a site that...
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David Sax, Revenge of Analog and the Soul of an Entrepreneur (The Tiny Typecast)
David Sax, the author of three books—on delis, on the revival of analog culture, and on the right way to look at entrepreneurship—offers insights into the joy people feel in letterpress printing and the way in which cottage businesses dominated the world, and still do. Printing and letterpress...
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Amy Redmond and Jenny Wilkson (The Tiny Typecast)
In this installment of the Tiny Type Cast, I speak with artists, designers, and educators Amy Redmond and Jenny Wilkson, who work primarily in letterpress. Jenny founded the letterpress program at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, Washington, and Amy studied typecasting, typesetting, and...
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Keith Houston on His Book, The Book (The Tiny Typecast)
Keith Houston talks about the past and present of the book, which has remained a remarkably consistent form since its invention millennia ago. We talk about bookiness, elements of a book, ebooks, and emoji, among other topics. Keith is the author of Shady Characters and The Book, and maintains an...
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A Visit to Letterform Archive (The Tiny Typecast)
Recorded live at Letterform Archive, Glenn Fleishman speaks with founder and executive director Rob Saunders, assistant curator and editorial director Stephen Cole, and then librarian Amelia Grounds. We talk about the archive history and mission, and how designers of today draw inspiration.
About this show
We have conversations about the history of printing and type paired with how this gives insight to people today. What does the past still have to teach us? And what are we learning fresh today about things that happened 20, 50, 500 years ago? Each episode, new guests. Hosted by Glenn Fleishman.
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