Radix Media
Episode description
Guest: Nicholas Hurd and Sarah Lopez.
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on October 15th, 2020
Radix Media is a worker-owned printer and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. They publish new ideas and fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. Radix started out as a commercial print shop in 2010, and expanded into literary publishing in 2017. The collective is currently made up of Lantz Arroyo, Nicholas Hurd, Meher Manda, and Sarah Lopez.
Nick Hurd is a California ex-pat with 20 years of printing and design experience. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, both in printmaking.
Nick is an expert in letterpress, bookmaking, business card design and all forms of specialty stationery. He is notoriously patient and loves the challenges inherent in using antique printing equFuturipment. Nick relishes tinkering with our Heidelberg Windmill, but he also handles our wide format printing.
Nick is also a tattoo collector, maple syrup enthusiast, soccer fan, and amateur gardener.
Sarah Lopez comes to Radix with a BA in Social and Historical Inquiry from Eugene Lang College and a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design at The New School. It was there that she fell in love with all things print while working in the printmaking studio.
She has a strong background in graphic design and visual communication, with an inclination toward independent and DIY publishing. Her taste for indie publishing started with her appreciation for zines, and developed as a zinester tabling zine fairs.
Sarah has worn many hats at Radix Media: she started out running our digital press and various bindery equipment, and helped launch our publishing arm with outreach and publicity. She currently manages our social media and does a lot of our graphic design.
Outside of work Sarah enjoys curling up with a good book, spending time outdoors, and taking care of her plants.