Behind the Scenes – Keir Whitaker

Elliot Jay Stocks

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 [https://geni.us/FineSpecimens] * Elliot’s newsletter: Typographic & Sporadic [https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter] * Elliot’s music as Otherform [https://www.instagram.com/otherformuk/] * 8 Faces magazine [https://8faces.com] * beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf [https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026] * Book launch event at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf [https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026/side-events/fine-specimens-launch] * Oliver's Pimp My Type Newsletter [https://pimpmytype.com/] * Emma's Newsletter [https://typographictreats.substack.com/?r=2sgmop&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist]

On Events, Community, and Doing This Anyway – Jeremy Keith

I sat down with Jeremy Keith to talk about why we run events, from small niche meetups to full conferences. We discuss the joy of connecting people, exploring ideas across disciplines, and the challenges of today’s event world: ticket sales, sponsorship, and reaching new audiences. Jeremy’s upcoming Web Day Out [https://webdayout.com/] in Brighton shows how one-day events can inspire, educate, and bring the community together. * Web Day Out in Brighton [https://webdayout.com/] * Jeremy's Website [https://adactio.com/] * Clearleft [https://clearleft.com/]

Behind the Scenes – Keir Whitaker

In this unscripted episode Keir Whitaker and I are talking about feedback – giving feedback, listening to feedback and using feedback. Furthermore I asked Keir how important it is these days to have a website, especially if you run an event. Surely we also had a conversation about social media and how it changed over the last 10 years and the role it plays for an event organiser today. * Website of Keir Whitaker [https://keirwhitaker.com/] * Craft & Work Events [https://craftandwork.com/]

Behind the Scenes – Gavin Strange

* Full transcription [https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/bts-gavin-strange-and-the-dusseldorf-2025-design] * Website of Gavin Strange [https://www.jam-factory.com/] * Gavin's blog post with all the background [https://blog.jam-factory.com/behind-the-scenes-beyond-tellerrand-2025-title-sequence/?ref=beyondtellerrand] * Opening Titles Düsseldorf 2025 [https://youtu.be/0N7k-8Vsngc?si=NRtqXpuyjTQ1CgL6] * Event pages for Düsseldorf 2025 [https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025]