Typeradio Podcast

November 2010 Typeradio held a two day workshop in cooperation with Indra Kupferschmid and 12 students of the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste (HBK Saar) in Saarbrücken, Germany. Each student was assigned a typeface designed by a Dutch designer with the question ‘How do you interpret the typeface into a one minute sound piece?’ The resulting 12 sound pieces were the starting point of a new workshop in collaboration with Jan Willem Stas and 12 students of the Type and Media master coarse, The Hague, The Netherlands. Each student was allocated an (anonymously labelled) sound piece and their challenge was to ‘create a typeface inspired by the sound’. The results were quite a surprise! 1) Original typeface: Schulschrift by Just van Rossum 2) Sound piece by Noemi Merkle and Julia Scheid 3) Chinese whispered typeface by Florian Schick His sound piece confused Florian a bit, so he wrote down everything he heard. What really got him was the sound of a person writing on a chalkboa