Type Week

This week is Type Week in New York City.

Mayor Bloomberg has declared July 18-24 to be "Type Week" in Manhattan! This is, in our opinion, quite a coup for the design community?we don't recall ever seeing "Grammar & Spelling Week" for copy editors or "Lede & Nut Graf Week" for reporters or "Optimized Workflow Week" for the IT department.

For type geeks watching from afar, there's always Typeradio, a podcast service presented by Dutch foundry Underware.

Go to the Typeradio site and follow the instructions for subscribing to the free podcast through iTunes.

(Via Typographica)

¶ Incidentally, the first latest Typeradio installment is a conversation between Stephen Coles and Joshua Lurie-Terrell, editors of the Typographica weblog.

UPDATE: Well, the Typographica conversation doesn't hold much typographical interest. It's mainly a story of how the Typographica weblog was founded, including a rather vicious rant against Canadians (who booted the site from it's original "typographi.ca" address because they didn't have enough of a connection to Canada.) Maybe the other podcasts will be better.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The two sessions with Matthew Carter—designer of Verdana—are quite funny (it's really one interview, but it's broken into two files). It seems that Stanley Morrison—of Times New Roman fame—had a glass or two of champagne at eleven o'clock every day. His acolytes, quite fittingly, are often drunk by noon. I knew that there was a link between type and philosophy...