Did you know: – anything about the professional sport career of Mr Salden – the trickof Mr Salden to make a typeface manually thicker – why you should (need) to design one typeface a month. – how many hours it takes Mr Salden to design a typeface – the favorite typeface of Mr. Salden
And of course there is the final (difficult) question: How does he wants to get remembered?
Georg Salden (77) and the digital revolution (the GST foundry was founded in 1971). In this episode you will get a unique glimpse in the working method of Georg Salden, featuring the legendary MicroVAX computers.
Gerog Salden about MicroVAX: ...they were used by URW in Hamburg to run their Ikarus programms. They later fitted these programms for Mac and PC, but the old ones were the better ones, as is often in life. Nowadays it is difficult to get a Vax and the compatible equipment, of course, and I pray each day that it can be logged in further on…
Georg Salden is designing type for over 40 years. He got specially known for his fonts Polo GST, Brasil GST and Basta GST. In this first episode Mr Salden is talking about the difference between a typeface designer and typographer and how he got involved in what he is doing. We hear the full truth about the relation between Georg Salden and his uncle Helmut Salden, which became a famous typographer in Holland. And did you ever hear the story of the the mystery enemy of Helmut Salden? Listen and find out. Or not.