The Tiny Typecast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Posting Future Type-Related Posts to the Main Blog
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
High-Res Scans of Peanuts Flongs Now Available
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Hearty Thanks to Supporters of the Electro Display Matrix Project
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matrix Replicas Available for Order
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
3D Printed Matrices Close to Shipping
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tiny Type Museum Sold Out
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Duncan and Paula Clarke Bain on Indexing
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about indexes with the author of the book Index, a History of the, Dennis Duncan, and its indexer, Paula Clarke Bain. Modern indexes date...
3D Metal Filament Printing
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finished 3D Models
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Progress on Type Matrix
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Funded! 3D Modeling and Printing a Historic Type Matrix
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A 19th Century 3D Printer: an Audiobook Chapter
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Electrotyping was the 3D printing of its day. An electro-chemical process that deposited dissolved copper or other metals onto a prepared object, it e...
The Tiny Type Studio
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live Flong Party! A Show and Tell of Printing History
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Abel & Nick Gill, Two UK Printers Across an Era
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Abel is a letterpress printer in London, who started his Hand and Eye Press in 1985 with a modest array of printing gear on the road to...
Daniel Schneider, Industrial Archeologist
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Schneider (Instagram: rustedrebar) is a letterpress printer with an undergraduate degree in journalism and a master’s in industrial...
Grendl Löfkvist, a Blackletter Aficionado and Printer
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grendl Löfkvist is a calligrapher, letterpress printer, and former offset press operator, and the education director at Letterform Archive ...
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Associate Curator in the Cary Collection at RIT, Historian, and Letterpress Printer
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, the Associate Curator in the Cary Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, discusses the history of the colle...
Alix Christie, Author of Gutenberg’s Apprentice, Reporter, and Letterpress Printer
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alix Christie wrote the book on Gutenberg. Her novel, Gutenberg’s Apprentice, puts us squarely in the milieu in which Gutenberg formed his stud...
Steve Finan, Memories of the Last Days of Metal Printing
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Finan is journalist who writes regularly about language and the misunderstandings that result every time we open our mouths. His column “Oh My...
Toshi Omagari, Type Designer and Video Game Font Historian
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toshi Omagari studied Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University, Japan, and then got his master's in Typeface Design at the University o...
David Shields, Wood Type Historian (Tiny Typecast)
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Shields is the preeminent expert on the history of wood type, and currently the chair of the Department of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonweal...
Briar Levit, a Historian of Forgotten Figures of Design Past
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Briar Levit is a book designer, filmmaker, and former art director of Bitch magazine. She has taught graphic design for years, and is an associate pro...
Jim Moran, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (The Tiny Typecast)
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this first episode in the new run in 2021, please welcome Jim Moran, the master printer and collections officer at the Hamilton Wood Type & Pri...
A Milestone in Museums
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Museums Ahoy and Many Thanks
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tiny Type Museums Are Shipping
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Imminent Shipment of Tiny Type Museums
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Burge, Chief Emoji Officer of Emojipedia (The Tiny Typecast)
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emoji are the first kind of symbolic element designed to read only online that’s also difficult, sometimes impossible, to reproduce accurately in pr...
Order a Museum or Book
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Sax, Revenge of Analog and the Soul of an Entrepreneur (The Tiny Typecast)
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Sax, the author of three books—on delis, on the revival of analog culture, and on the right way to look at entrepreneurship—offers insights ...
A Doonesbury Stereotype
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Redmond and Jenny Wilkson (The Tiny Typecast)
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment of the Tiny Type Cast, I speak with artists, designers, and educators Amy Redmond and Jenny Wilkson, who work primarily in letterp...
Delays and Books
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Final Museum Case Details
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Houston on His Book, The Book (The Tiny Typecast)
29 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Houston talks about the past and present of the book, which has remained a remarkably consistent form since its invention millennia ago. We talk...
A Visit to Letterform Archive (The Tiny Typecast)
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Letterform Archive, Glenn Fleishman speaks with founder and executive director Rob Saunders, assistant curator and editorial director...
Update about the State of Progress
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Book in Galleys, Book Production Dates, Initial Slugs Set
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Woodn’t It Be Nice?
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Doves Cry and Four Films
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How the Book Is Set
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Latest Accessions and Book Update
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Case Construction Starts
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A Host of New Accessions, a Trip, and More
22 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A Talk on Type History Featuring the Tiny Type Museum
16 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The South Bend Malleable Range
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Quoins, Wood Type, and Phototype
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Movie Ad Mats, a Superior Printing Press, and Tiny Type
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bogus Copy and Baseline Standards
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Explaining Flong and Stereotypes: How Newspapers Grew in Size and Volume
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Type Artifacts, Assemble!
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Photos of Flong and a Brief History
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Follow the Progress of the Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas