Marc catches up with longtime friend and typographic obsessive Elliot Jay Stocks – designer, author, former Creative Director of Adobe Fonts, and founder of the legendary *8 Faces* magazine. They talk about Elliot’s new book *Fine Specimens: A Showcase of Contemporary Type Design*, which collects specimen graphics from independent and established type foundries around the world, preserving work that would otherwise be lost to the scroll. The conversation covers the book’s unlikely journey from a failed Kickstarter to a Quarto publication, the challenge of multi-script type design, Elliot’s return to Adobe Fonts as a full employee after 18+ years freelancing, and the joy of making music with no commercial agenda whatsoever. Elliot also shares details of his book launch tour, including a stop at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf in April.

Links:

• Fine Specimens: A Showcase of Contemporary Type Design by Elliot Jay Stocks
• Elliot’s newsletter: Typographic & Sporadic
• Elliot’s music as Otherform
• 8 Faces magazine
• beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf
• Book launch event at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf
• Oliver's Pimp My Type Newsletter
• Emma's Newsletter