Is there typical Spanish design? The difference between Spanish and Catalonian design, the pros and cons of globalisation. Andreus role in Spanish typographic history. Andreu talks about his font foundry Type Republic and the Garcia Fonts project.

Andreu Balius is a graphic and type-designer from Barcelona, Diederik Corvers is one from Rotterdam. They talk about religion, working as a designer in Barcelona and Rotterdam, mountain biking as relaxation, favorite dishes, heroes. What is typical Spanish or Dutch design?

Roger Black reflects on ‘design equity’, his work on the Baltimore Sun, the importance of verbal skills in graphic design, the ‘intellectualisation’ of design and recent developments in typography.

‘Technological progress can make you insane.’ Roger Black talks about his first newspaper ‘My Fun Reader’, printed on the Ditto machine, the role of design in the newspaper business, his career in typography and newspaper design, his favorite magazine and his favorite newspapers.

Roger Black is more religious in terms of typography than religion. ‘Anything goes in typography.’ Newspapers are his passion. He talks about reading newspapers and reading in general. The differences between reading print on paper and reading on the web.

The persuit of neutrality. Kai Bernau, recent graduate of the Hagues Type and Media course, explains how he attempted to achieve blandness with his recently released font ‘neutral’.

Filip’s view on Ellen Lupton’s free font pool, his plea for educating people about graphic design, the characteristics of Czech graphic design and the Building Letters project.

Filip talks about books, his dearest possession, being the Czech Atypi delegate, his Diacritics project

Filip talks about morning rituals, his design studio, the thin line between typography and graphic design, his parents and the fall of communism.

Join Christian Schwartz in Lisbon for his third recipe – Salmon soup from Finland otherwise known as Lohikeitto.