Erik Spiekermann

Elliot sits down with Jamie Clarke — a  type designer and lettering artist who just happens to live in the same village in rural Somerset. Actually, Elliot and Jamie have been friends for years, and have been collaborating since the early days of 8 Faces. This is an edited version of a much longer ramblechat, in which they discuss Jamie’s forthcoming new typeface Nave, his self-initiated studio projects that have won him high-profile client work, the journey to his “third” career, and the threats and opportunities posed by AI.A few things mentioned in this episode include:Jamie & Filip’s article on AI for Smashing MagType Design intensive (TDi) course at ReadingThe Dark Art of Pricing by Jessica HischePrice with Purpose by GooodtypeHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.

Elliot sits down with Ty Finck — an old friend in internet terms — to talk about making music regularly, liberating his last foundry to Google Fonts, his F-Bombs project, and — a recurrent theme this season — the woes of social media. —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.

Elliot sits down with James Edmondson of OH no Type Co. — whose typefaces Degular and Swear are used in Elliot’s new book and indeed the branding for this podcast — to talk about the realities of launching and growing a type foundry, making his own bass guitars, stealing good ideas, and a bit of reminiscing about the good ol’ CSS Zen Garden. —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.

Elliot sits down with Francis Chouquet, a type designer, lettering artist, printmaker, and former web designer who’s based just outside of Basel, Switzerland, to talk about the weekly schedule that enforces time away from screens, using physically distinct locations to do different kinds of creative work, and how he’s grown his audience via his newsletter, The Typochondriac Weekly.The book Francis mentions in this episode is How to Do Nothing, by Jenny Odell. He and Elliot also mention the newsletters and membership programme run by Craig Mod.  —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.

Elliot sits down outside a pub in Bristol with designer and lettering artist Emma Luczyn, who was responsible for Elliot’s hand-lettered logo. They talk about Emma’s journey as a self-prescribed black sheep in a non-creative family, budgeting sensibly as an art student, delaying getting a ‘real job’ in order to travel, moving from print design to web design to lettering, and how her family life has come about as a direct result of her creative pursuits. Warning: as well as some NSFW language in this one, there’s an actual mention of Bézier curves. Please forgive us. —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.

Elliot sits down for a cup of tea at Erik Spiekermann’s house in London to discuss his successes and failures, his latest typeface neue Serie57®, the relationship between paper and screen, and why Frutiger could very well be the typeface Erik takes to a desert island. Warning: lots of swearing! —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.

Elliot sits down with Dan Cederholm, who many will know for his pioneering web design work, his multiple books, and as the co-founder of Dribbble. These days, Dan’s studio Simplebits is a type foundry, so Elliot and Dan talk learning new skills, career reinvention, the woes of social media, and moving from digital to analogue and back again — all with a healthy (or is that unhealthy?) dose of reminiscing about the good ol’ days of the web. —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.

Elliot sits down with Jessica to discuss juggling family life with deadlines, why books take so long to get published, the kind of logo redesign work she’s been enjoying, through to all the preparation she’s been doing to open her bricks-and-mortar store in Oakland. —You might also enjoy:Elliot’s newsletter Typographic & Sporadic, which is typographic in its nature and sporadic in its delivery. Elliot’s new book, Universal Principles of Typography, is out now and available from anywhere that sells books. You can find a few handy links to buy it on elliotjaystocks.com/bookHello, type friends! is published by Margin Media, Ltd. Theme music by Other Form.