Event & Type Salon Schedule
Below is the schedule of TDC events for the upcoming season. Please check back soon for more information on each event including registration information.
10 September TYPE SALON
“Genuine imitations: a type designer’s view of revival”
Matthew Carter, Carter & Cone Type Inc. (carterandcone.com)
A number of Matthew Carter’s designs have been based on historical types, ITC Galliard, Big Caslon, Miller, Vincent and the Yale typeface among them. Others, like Snell Roundhand and Mantinia, were derived from non-typographic sources from the past, specifically a handwriting manual and lettering in the work of a painter.
In this lecture he explains his debt to the historical legacy, and describes cases where historically-based designs have been adapted to the needs of contemporary clients. His type revivals have varied in faithfulness to their models, which raises questions about the responsibilities of the continuator of traditional forms, about degrees of interpretation, adaptation to current technology, ancestor worship and travesty.
17 September TYPE SALON
“Great Comic Book Typography”
Arlen Schumer (arlenschumer.com)
Comic book historian Arlen Schumer (The Silver Age of Comic Book Art, Collectors Press, 2003) presents an overview of some of the best typography in comic book history—hand-lettered balloons, ads and logotypes—and the impact it has had on his own comic book-styled illustration for the advertising and editorial markets the past 25 years.
7 October TYPE SALON
“Three to Tango: Stories of Collaborative Type Design”
Patrick Griffin (canadatype.com)
Type design by collaboration is a rarely addressed topic. No two designers think exactly the same way or view type in the same manner. Patrick Griffin will present details of his involvement in three vastly different collaborative projects. This talk will be engaging type design edutainment, and your backstage pass to high-profile design process and its many quirks.
15 October PANEL DISCUSSION
“The Night of the Italians”
moderated by Paola Antonelli
Louise Fili, Louise Fili Inc. (louisefili.com)
Francesco Cavalli, LeftLoft (leftloft.com)
Massimo Vignelli, Vignelli Associates (vignelli.com)
Matteo Bologna, Mucca Design (mucca.com)
SVA Theatre
333 West 23 Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
$15 TDC members
$20 Non member Students (with proper id)
$25 Non members
22 October TYPE SALON
The world of Arabic typography: Politics, culture, and visual identity
Nadine Chahine (www.arabictype.com/blog)
Typefaces do not exist in a vacuum. From the moment of creation to the moment of public debut, letterforms are a product of the environment they exist in. This is especially true in the case of Arabic typography. This talk will try to connect the lines of Arabic calligraphic and typographic innovation with the cultural and political backdrop of the Arabic world, historically and to the present day.
23 October – 25 October WORKSHOP
“Introduction to Arabic Type Design”
Nadine Chahine, Linotype (linotype.com)
Linotype’s Arabic specialist and Branding Manager, Nadine Chahine, will give a 2-day workshop as an introduction to Arabic type design. Workshop participants will receive online reading material as well as an optional reading list to start on before the workshop begins. The first day schedule will include an introduction to the Arabic script as well as a short overview of the state of Arabic typography today. Participants will then start on an Arabic logotype design for an existing brand. This will serve as a starting point for them to expand into a full typeface. The workshop aims to give a basic understanding of how the Arabic script functions, the possibilities of new design directions, as well as address the issue of multi-script branding in today’s world.
3 November TYPE SALON
“A Forced Race for Eye Space”
Alejandro Paul, Sudtipos (sudtipos.com)
The 2001 economical crisis in Argentina forced the hand of many industries, including all fields of design. Designers had to reconsider their strategies and learn how to rebuild in order to remain relevant in an increasingly tightening industry. Alejandro Paul focused his free time on finding a way to combine his two passions, lettering and packaging, into a viable way to survive as a designer. As it turns out, he was not the only one on that path. Instinctively collective efforts and the internet helped bring Latin America, formerly without much typographic tradition, to the forefront of global type design — showcasing fresh tastes and formulating new visual philosophies for the constantly changing use of packaging typography.
4 November SPECIAL EVENT
SPECIAL EVENT: Book Cover Party
19 November TYPE SALON
“Photo-Lettering and You”
House Industries, House Industries (houseind.com)
20 November WORKSHOP
“Prefab Lettering”
Ken Barber, House Industries (houseind.com)
3 December TYPE SALON
Lone Wolf Black Sheep
Will Staehle (willstaehle.com)
10 December SPECIAL EVENT + TYPE SALON
Holiday Party
Matthew Richmond and Thomas Romer, The Chopping Block (choppingblock.com)
14 January TYPE SALON
Judges Night
Joe Duffy, Duffy & Partners (duffy.com)
Dave Farey, House Style (housestylegraphics.com)
18 February TYPE SALON
“Your Client is your worst enemy”
Eric Baker, The O Group (ogroup.net)
Rodrigo Corral, Rodrigo Corral Design (rodrigocorral.com)
Fernando Music, The Rooster Design Group (theroostergroup.com)
18 March TYPE SALON
Douglas Riccardi, Memo Productions (memo-ny.com)
15 April TYPE SALON
Scott Stowell, Open (notclosed.com)
29 April TYPE SALON + SPECIAL EVENT
Tina Roth Eisenberg, SwissMiss (swiss-miss.com)
and Silent Auction “Beautiful Banal”
17 June TYPE SALON
“Ideas vs. Style: Why one can no longer live without the other”
Stewart Devlin, The Partners (thepartners.co.uk)
On average, consumers are bombarded with over 3,000 marketing messages per day.
What does it take to get noticed? How do you get an audience to really engage and process your work? Is style enough to make something stand out; or do you need a real idea behind the design to provoke and give a message true staying power? Stewart Devlin, Chief Creative Officer of Red Peak Group, will lead an interactive discussion while referencing case studies spanning various industries and mediums.