Michael Bierut on Typography

Michael Beirut, design writer and Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art, is interviewed here by The Atlantic. He discusses our current fascination with fonts and provides a five minute history of how fonts and graphic design have become more democratic through the evolution of the computer, by way of an interesting discursion on Stanley Kubrick, Beirut's own distaste for Garamond and the link between phototypesetting and Free Love.

"With computers, people today know the names of fonts... they may even have strong opinions about them"