This episode covers a variety of print related topics including - part one of the Ottmar Mergenthaler story, 12 print facts to muse while in isolation, stories of a young compositor part two, could it be that Comic Sans isn't really a bad font, proofreading in the 1970's and when doves cry - a tale of loss and redemption. Hope you enjoy our offering.
14 Jun 2020
Leadfellas Season 2 Episode 5
In this episode we get to hear the tales of a young compositor in the 1970's South Australia, the contribution made to type faces by Steve Jobs, "Mummy" paper and finally a tale of an underground printing press in Australia - Hard Cash! Hope you enjoy this episode. Team at Leadfellas.
26 Apr 2020
Leadfellas Season 2 Episode 4
In this episode of Leadfellas, we look at the printers in the first "mile high" club, check out the history of the cheque, discover what a "bastard" title is and finish up on the interesting but little known tale of the Titanic's printers. Enjoy the episode.
29 Mar 2020
Leadfellas Season 2 Episode 3
In this episode we look at typo's - of the atomic kind. Why is the Gutenberg bible such a technical masterpiece from a printing perspective? To round the episode out, we look at "Industry in turmoil" - why a good printing business can go bad so quickly. Hope you enjoy this - Leadfella team.
3 Mar 2020
Leadfellas Season 2, Episode 2
In this episode we discuss the state of the industry today in a postscript world. Discover a font that was as hated as Comic Sans is today but from the 70's. Have an introduction to the fine art of "greeking" text and round it out with a secret underground printing press run by Joe Stalin. A mixed bag, enjoy!
9 Feb 2020
Leadfellas - Season 2, Episode 1
This episode we discuss - the font Futura. We look at what Gutenberg and Christmas carols have in common. Finally we look at Australian printing slang - "Wrong Fonts" and see what that means.
20 Dec 2019
Episode 3
This time we look at linotype machines, apprenticeship tales as well as feeling "out of sorts" - enjoy
10 Nov 2019
Leadfellas Episode 2
Hear more about the Gutenberg story, when to use ie vs eg, history of photocomposition, HTML vs Hotmetal and more!
20 Oct 2019
Leadfellas Episode 1 (full)
First full episode drop of the Leadfella podcast. In this episode we will be covering - Early printing in Australia, the Gutenberg story (part 1), handset to linotype and Baskerville - the font and the man!
20 Oct 2019
Leadfellas - An introduction
First episode of the Leadfellas podcast. Three broken down typesetters wanting to keep the history of printing/typesetting alive as well as giving their own spin on fonts, layout and design as well as printing history/lore.
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