Jonathan Hoefler & Steven Heller On “Please Explain: Typography”
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Every Friday afternoon Please Explain – the weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show – gets to the bottom of one complex issue. The latest Please Explain is all about typefaces and typography. Typeface designer Jonathan Hoefler, type designer and president of Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Steven Heller, co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts and author of the VISUALS column for the New York Times Book Review, explain how typefaces are created and why typography is important to communication and design.
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9 Comments:
nice, thanks for posting this, i enjoyed it.
Indeed, very enjoyable.
It makes me wonder if there’s any podcast out there about typography. I’d like to listen to one of those.
Well, we have Typeradio for starters.
And maybe check their Third Ear list, linking to audio content (& video) from third parties.
Thanks for posting this I found it most enjoyable!
Great interview, thanks!
This was very intersting, by the way, is there any webpage of the bodoni museum?
Thank you for a terrific interview and for the best produced graphic design website
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