Typeradio.org relies on the various typography conferences that take place around the world as it’s at these gatherings that [typeradio's founders] Beekman and Enebeis are able to round up a selection of the most noted speakers and probe them with their wide ranging and frequently tangential questions. The results are broadcast while the conference is on (the Typeradio team went to New York’s TypeCon in July and, more recently, Helsinki’s ATypI conference in September) and then archived online for future listeners.

It’s the particular kind of content that makes the project rather special as, while typography is of course the central core of the conversations (for all you typophiles out there, issues of type selection, kerning, serifs and illegal fonts take up much of the air time) it’s often the questions that aren’t type-related that produce the most unique insights or reveal more of the personality of a designer.

The station itself explains, “Type is speech on paper. Typeradio is speech on type.” Talk about mixed media …