Leadfellas

Danny Kannapinn

Typesetting and printing in Australia with personal accounts and histories.

Episodes

  1. 09/03/2020

    Leadfellas Season 2 Episode 6

    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.

  2. 06/14/2020

    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.

  3. 04/26/2020

    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.

  4. 03/29/2020

    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.

  5. 03/03/2020

    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!

  6. 02/09/2020

    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.

  7. 12/20/2019

    Episode 3

    This time we look at linotype machines, apprenticeship tales as well as feeling "out of sorts" - enjoy

  8. 11/10/2019

    Leadfellas Episode 2

    Hear more about the Gutenberg story, when to use ie vs eg, history of photocomposition, HTML vs Hotmetal and more!

  9. 10/20/2019

    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!

  10. Season 1, Episode 1 Trailer

    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.

Trailer

About

Typesetting and printing in Australia with personal accounts and histories.

Information

  • Creator
    Danny Kannapinn
  • Years Active
    2020
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Danny Kannapinn
  • Show Website
    Leadfellas