Re(un)Covered
Join Bethany, a literary researcher with a passion for the obscure, as she shares recovered and uncovered stories from archives around the world. Come for the archives, stay for the stories.
This is archival recovery, out loud.
Episodes
8 episodes
INTRODUCING Re(un)Covered Podcast: Season 1
Join Bethany, a literary researcher with a passion for the obscure, as she shares recovered and uncovered stories from archives around the world. For season one, we'll be talking all about the (mostly) forgotten women of the metal type ...
Just What Is Re(un)Covered?
“Why did you rub the lamp that contains me?” 🧞Joe and Bethany cover what you’ll be hearing on Re(un)Covered, what is archival recovery, some feminist history, and how knowing a more inclusive past can help us make a better future. Also: ...
The Unanxious Influencer
“History: problematic and cool, all at once” 📜✒️🗃️Anna Simons (1871–1951) taught hand lettering to a generation of designers. She studied calligraphy with Edward Johnston at Royal College of Art (UK), then taught courses in his pl...
Who Are All These German Women?
“I have too many tabs open” 📑 🗂️Today we talk about some women whose archival trace is almost ghostly in its faintness. Sometimes we only have a single date and some work products, leaving huge gaps in both their professional and persona...
The Many Lives of Elizabeth Friedlander
“Well, I want the Christmas card” 🎄🎅✉️Elizabeth Friedlander (1903–1984) made a typeface, disinformation campaigns, Die Dame fashion magazine layouts, decorative paper patterns for Curwen, book covers for publishers like P...
Type In The Mid-Century USA
“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, sh...
So Mod
“Birding has so many connections to type”🦉🐦⬛🦢Mid-century shifts to clean lines as we situate two more women type designers and their work: Montan by Anna Maria Schildbach (1924–?) and Thomas Schrift and Versalien by Friedel Thomas (1895...
The State of Hebrew Type Design
“Try and tell me why design doesn't matter.” 🤖🥊🤨 Franziska (Franzisca) Baruch (1901–1989) became interested in Hebrew letterforms before she even spoke it. A letterer and graphic designer, she is likely best known for her Hebrew t...
