Typeradio will be on the air throughout the conference!
ATypI 2005 Helsinki is pleased to announce the European crew of Typeradio will broadcast live from ATypI 2005 at LUME center Helsinki. Typeradio is running 24 hours/day during the conference, and it is accessible through intercom at the conference site, or through internet www.typeradio.org wherever you are located. Typeradio will feature four days of interviews, music, radio programs, and newsflashes from inside the type world. The Typeradio crew will broadcast live through the internet straight from the conference! Stay tuned to Typeradio starting September 15th.
From our friends at Typeradio:
‘Typeradio is not a stiff multinational enterprise, but a small, flexible project that requires your participation!
In the midst of preparing and packing their stuff, radio hosts Donald Beekman and Liza Enebeis are curious about your ideas. If you have good stories, news, sound, or anything else which you think is interesting for Typeradio, please email Donald and Liza immediately at info@typeradio.org. Your ideas and help are highly appreciated.‘
PS: If your friends are not able to make it to Helsinki, tell them to tune in September 15th to Typeradio!
Now we are talking
Typeradio is a paradox. Type is printed and radio talks, so naturally Typeradio is speech on type.
It is a MicroFM broadcast, an MP3 radio stream and a podcast station. Initiated in 2004 by Underware - Akiem Helming, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki, a graphic design studio which specialises in designing and producing typefaces, in collaboration with DBXL - graphic and type designer Donald Beekman and LoveLiza - Liza Enebeis, also in the graphic design business. The 5 strong team visit different design events around the world, to meet designers and to talk. The show is broadcasted live from the conference.
From Peter Saville to Stefan Sagmeister, from Mathew Carter to Erik van Blokland everyone wants to be on Typeradio and everyone is listening... but what's the big deal? Radio is almost an extinct medium, images are worth thousands of words - or so they say, and yet the listeners multiply with every new broadcast session, Typo Berlin 1300 listeners, TypeCon NY 3000 listeners. Maybe it's because the designers are not only talking about kerning, point sizes and glyphs, but they are also talking about their favorite recipes, political views, cheating, their families, their strengths and weaknesses and sometimes they even start singing, creating an intimacy with the listener. It's the pause in the answer when the question is asked, 'do you cheat?' The abruptness in answer when you ask 'how many illegal fonts do you have?' The tone of voice when answering 'are you famous?'
The listener is in control to judge his favorite designer and not left to the interpretation of the written word of a journalist in some magazine. The listener can interact by emailing their questions and if the listener wants to download Christian Schwartz talk about chicken stock for 12 hours or John Sherman talking about Eric Gill being very very naughty, be my guest. Now stop reading and listen to www.typeradio.org - next broadcasting from ATypI 2005 Helsinki.