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The (consistently) great podcast is a kind of personal holy grail. I love being able to visit a certain site once a week (if I’m lucky) and know that I’ll hear a great conversation taking place. The following is my list of absolutely essential interview based podcasts. I’ve pointed out some of my personal favorite episodes from each show as well.

1. Typeradio
No design podcast tops the Dutch program Typeradio. Its apparently about typography and type design but the interviewees are from the broader world of graphic design and the first questions they are asked is “Are you religious?” (along with the awkward “Do you love me?” and “Do you ever lie?”). From there the conversations can go anywhere.

Highlights:

• Robert Bringhurst The author of The Elements of Typographic Style discusses his non-designer background, translating Native American literature, and surprisingly (to me, at least) his love for Hey Ho’s single typeface approach to designing for Éditions Galaade (work that we showed extensively in our book [warning: plug self-promotion ahead] Function, Restraint & Subversion in Typography).
• Experimental Jetset A 2-part interview totaling 50 minutes with Danny and Marieke of the highly-influential Dutch design unit. Topics include atheism, printing, and their own estimation that based on the criticism they receive history may have already made up its mind about Experimental Jetset (and its not good). A really interesting and unguarded conversation.
• Peter Saville Peter Saville is unable to open his mouth without being interesting.
  “Q: Are you famous? A: It would seem so.”

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