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From the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before… welcome to An Incomplete History of Type. 

Name: Papyrus

Release Date: 1982

Designer: Chris Costello

Classification: Fantasy 

Owned By: Letraset

Claim to Fame: Used and abused in personal computing and recently spoofed on SNL.

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From the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before… welcome to An Incomplete History of Type. 

Name: ITC Zapf Chancery

Release Date: 1979

Designer: Hermann Zapf 

Classification: Script

Owned By: Linotype

Claim to Fame: The first and only calligraphic typeface shipped with the first Apple computers.

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From the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before… welcome to An Incomplete History of Type. 

Name: Helvetica

Release Date: 1957

Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann

Classification: Neo-Grotesque Sans Serif

Owned By: Haas Type Foundry

Claim to Fame: The world’s most ubiquitous typeface.

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From the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before… welcome to An Incomplete History of Type. 

Name: Futura

Release Date: 1927

Designer: Paul Renner

Classification: Geometric Sans Serif

Owned By: The Bauer Type Foundry

Claim to Fame: The typeface that put a man on the moon.

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From the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before… welcome to An Incomplete History of Type. 

Name: Blackletter (specifically Donatus-Kalender) 

Release Date: 1455

Designer: Johannes Gutenberg

Classification: Blackletter

Owned By: n/a

Claim to Fame: The world’s first mechanized typeface, used in the world’s first mass-produced book.

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Welcome to digital publishing’s future!

The third in a 3-part mini-series, this episode explores predictions about what digital storytelling could look like in 2022 and beyond. Also, special guest and PDF expert, Jason Lisi, joins us to dive deeper into PDF specifications for digital publishing and give us a sense of where PDF could be headed in the future.

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Welcome to digital publishing’s present!

The second in a 3-part mini-series, this episode explores the last 10 years of digital publishing and what’s going on in today’s publishing landscape. Four key trends are discussed: Digital Rights Management (DRM), software for digital publishing (namely, Adobe InDesign CC), self-publishing and publishing in a pandemic. 

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Welcome to digital publishing’s past!

The first in a 3-part mini-series, this episode explores 40 years worth of major technologies and events in digital publishing, from the recognized birth of digital publishing in 1971 with Project Gutenberg to Google’s attempt to digitize the world’s books that went up in flames in 2010. Like Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, whose past, present and future spirits arrive on Christmas Eve to show him a side of himself he can’t see from within, Diana too will be taking you on a journey... she will be your guide through the past, present and future of digital publishing. 

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Happy New Years’ Eve! This is the final episode in a 5-part mini series leading up to 2021 that will get you thinking in fresh new ways for a fresh new year. This episode is all about a New Years’ Day tradition that involves focusing on feelings more than specific goals, and it’s especially helpful for visual thinkers.

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Happy New Years’ Eve Eve! This is the fourth episode in a 5-part mini series leading up to 2021 that will get you thinking in fresh new ways for a fresh new year. This episode encourages you to think about creative insight in a new way and cha cha in the rain.

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