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Sowersby’s typefaces combine historical knowledge with contemporary craftmanship & finish.

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The German Market for Magazines

The market for magazines in Germany is one of the biggest in the world and the largest in Europe. The shelves in newspaper kiosks are full, the choice seems limitless and still it grows. Even though last year a wide range of large and highly reputed publications – »Amica« (women), »Vanity Fair« (glamour), »Maxim« (men) [...]

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Wood Type in the Digital Age

Wooden printing type is often used to evoke historical themes from the second half of the 19th century – a period in the evolution of typography filled with “wanted” posters and theater broadsides. Despite these old-time connotations, contemporary designers and letterpress printers have been expanding on the paradigms of wood type in recent years, incorporating [...]

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Are You A Type Criminal? The 10 Worst Type Crimes

Are you a type criminal? Join Ilene Strizver of The Type Studio and find out as she discusses the 10 worst type crimes, and signs copies of the newly released 3rd edition of her book, “Type Rules! The designer’s guide to professional typography”.

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Revolving and Evolving: Typographic experiments of a cultural orphan

A 3-D alphabet as a mind-bending puzzle. A typeface designed for reading
and writing in four directions. An alphabet mash-up between the Roman
Alphabet and Korean Hangul, Google logo transformed as circles.

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TDC Scholarship winners 1994-2009

See this year’s scholarship recipients here. 2009 Rafael Almonte, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic Marie Castiglione, Fashion Institute of Technology Sam Chun, The Cooper Union School of Art Grant Gold, School of Visual Arts Skip Hursh, Pratt Institute Grace Lee, Parsons New School for Design Calvin Waterman, Rhode Island School of Design 2008 Florian Brozek, [...]

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2010 TDC Scholarship winners

The Type Directors Club is proud to support design education throughout the world. Since 1994, the TDC has awarded scholarships to promising students of typography. The scholarship winners are all entering their final year of an undergraduate design degree, and have been chosen based on their design talent. In addition to the $1000 scholarship, each [...]

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Christopher Masonga’s donated Laptop

Whether you are a technophile or a techonophobe, there is no getting around the fact that a computer is an essential design tool in the 21st century. It is hard to imagine a designer working without one. Which brings us to the only recipient of a Type Directors Club scholarship in Africa. Christopher Masonga was [...]

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TDC56, TDC2 2010, TDC Intro 010 Exhibitions

Exhibitions will be open Monday through Thursdays July 21 through August 19. The Cooper Union Cooper Union Gallery 41 Cooper Square New York City Exhibition is sponsored by: The Cooper Union Monotype Imaging Veer

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IT BEGAN IN BROOKLYN Michael Doret: From A to Z and Beyond

Even if the name Michael Doret doesn’t ring a bell, you’re probably more familiar with his work than you may realize. You have most likely seen his logo for the NY Knicks, his covers for TIME magazine, or for the hardrock group KISS. Michael is one of the most celebrated practitioners of “integrated letterforms;” his [...]

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Book Review: Letterform Collected – A Typographic Compendium

Letterform Collected: A Typographic Compendium is a body of reprinted columns that appeared in Grafik magazine between 2005 and 2009. It is a very pointed look not just at typefaces, but at individual characters.

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Book Review: Forms in Modernism: A Visual Set

The idea for this book is wonderfully simple: compare type forms with their contemporary architectural and furniture and clothing styles in order to reveal a “visual landscape of periods of design, where we can detect a common impulse toward form creation.” Smith calls these groups “visual sets.”

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Nicolas Jenson’s Typographic Contributions

Jenson’s type has been used continuously since its design in 1470: it has proven its worthiness through many interpretations. Some of Jenson’s offspring are Golden (Morris, 1890), Kennerly (Goudy, 1911), Cloister Old Style (Benton, 1913), Centaur (Rogers, 1915), and Berkeley Oldstyle (Goudy, 1938).

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Book Excerpt: Thinking in Type: The Practical Philosophy of Typography

Today’s typographic designer, working in an environment in which there is simply far too much to see and too much to hear, must act as an editor to reduce as well as clarify messages for readers.

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Video Review: TDC library gets Frederic W. Goudy home movies

A videotape appeared in the TDC mail recently from Elizabeth S. Manion, the director of the Marlboro Free Library in Marlboro, New York.

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Book Review: American Type Design and Designers

Where does type come from? What inspires its design? Are type designers artists? They certainly can be: type design requires extreme and very specific sensitivity. All the type designers I know have a quirkiness that sets them apart from other designers. This book presents practitioners as whole persons and shows their alphabets in the context of their typographic applications.

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Book Review: Graphic Design History

Ignorance of design history is rampant and studying it is a pain in the neck. You probably didn’t get much of it in college and if you did, it was probably easier and more fun to concentrate on your studio coursework. No one ever talks about design history or design contextualization on the job. It takes attention and brain cells to absorb and use design history. If you bumped into the beautifully written articles in Graphic Design History when they first ran in design magazines over the past decade, you may have skipped them. Graphic Design History gives you a second chance.

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Book Review: Alphabets to Order

“…Typefounders, like graffiti artists, have nothing in particular to say but an overwhelming need to say it.” The book grew out of a pair of lectures Johnston, a Scotsman who teaches at UC Berkeley and edits The Ampersand for the Pacific Center for the Book Arts, gave in 1979 on the roots of concrete poetry and the origins of display typography.

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Book Review: Type & Typography

Type & Typography distinguishes itself in a market that recently seems very well-supplied in books on type. Others include David Jury’s About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography, John D. Berry’s Language Culture Type, and Robin Kinross’ Unjustified Texts: Perspectives on Typography.

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Body Type 2

Like so many tales of true love, it started with a chance encounter; this one took place aboard a Manhattan crosstown bus on a summer day. One glimpse of the word Hello tattooed in Helvetica on a fellow passenger’s arm and Ina Saltz was a goner, hopelessly hooked on typographic tattoos.

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Kalligraphos: Experimental Calligraphy

Kalligraphos is a two-day, experimental-calligraphy workshop at the TDC. Kalligraphos takes people away from the computer screen to explore the art of drawing letters by hand–as a means of improving technique, focusing creative energy, and stimulating personal graphic research.

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Typography 30

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the TDC55 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2009 Type Design Competition.

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Interviews with former TDC Scholarship recipients

We tracked down some former scholarship recipients to see where their talents have taken them, and learn how the TDC was able to contribute to their career development in a small way.

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Introducing: TDC INTRO

The first annual competition and showcase of title design. Some of the most exciting creative work today is being done in title design for film, television, online and live gatherings. Still, there has never been a good forum to showcase this exciting work.

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Wearing Whitman’s Words; A Typographic Exploration

From December 5th to January 10th, Lucky Gallery is pleased to present “Wearing Whitman’s Words; A Typographic Exploration.”

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Exhibition: Widows and Orphans

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Glyphs: a new font editor now in public beta

Glyphs is a new font editor for the Mac, in public beta testing right now. One of Glyphs major advantages is that it allows live testing of the font in the context of real words. This may make the time-consuming process of setting up kerning a little easier.

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A giant step for typography on the Web

There is a buzz in the typographic and design communities right now about Web font embedding. The recently released version of CSS (cascading style sheets) includes an @font-face tag, which allows Web pages to use any truetype or opentype font.

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47th D&AD Awards now Open for Entry

Members of the TDC are invited to submit their finest type of 2009 into the D&AD Awards 2010. Enter before 18th November and save 10%.

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Genuine Imitations: A Type Designer’s View of Revivals

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Applied Typography 20 Call for Entries

Boasting high standards and a history of more than thirty years, Applied Typography showcases outstanding work, keeping an eye on the ever-evolving world of design and incorporating new ways of expression through contemporary media.

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Typography 29

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the TDC54 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2008 Type Design Competition.

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Type Salon: Great Comic Book Typography

Comic book historian Arlen Schumer presents an overview of some of the best typography in comic book history

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Frames Per Second: An Introduction to Type in Motion

A hands-on introduction into the ever-expanding practice of typography and design in motion.

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Font Design for Non-Type Designers

Get the skills necessary for the wild journey into the mysterious world of type design

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Beginning Adobe InDesign

Scott Citron is one of the most recognized authorities in the InDesign community. Scott has helped thousands over the past six years move from QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign.

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Advertising Design and Typography

Structured as a guided exercise, participants will develop and perfect their own advertising project. Requirements: please bring a PDF document and printout of one of your advertising projects.

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TDC55 and TDC2 2009 Show

The TDC55 and TDC2 2009 Show will be on display at The One Club on 21 East 26 Street, 5th Floor until 23 September.

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TDC NYC Lettering Walk: Brooklyn

The destination this time is the Brooklyn waterfront: Fulton Ferry, Dumbo, and Vinegar Hill. If time and weather permit we may finish by walking across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan.

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Genuine Imitations: A Type Designer’s View of Revival”

In this lecture Matthew Carter explains his debt to the historical legacy, and describes cases where historically-based designs have been adapted to the needs of contemporary clients.

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Type Salon: Three to Tango — Stories of Collaborative Type Design

Patrick Griffin presents 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.

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The Night of the Italians

Panel discussion moderated by Paola Antonelli. SVA Theatre 333 West 23 Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). Seating is limited so RSVP now.

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Exhibition: Type as Object

A new exhibition of prints, patterns, products, installations and sculptures based on House Industries’ 16-year love affair with alphabetical forms.

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The World of Arabic Typography: Politics, Culture, and Visual Identity

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.

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Introduction to Arabic Type Design

Linotype’s Arabic specialist and Branding Manager, Nadine Chahine, will give a 2-day workshop as an introduction to Arabic type design.

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Type Salon: A Forced Race for Eye Space

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.

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Book Cover Party

Join your colleagues, past and present and feast on a selection of delectable snacks and beverages and gasp in admiration at continuous big-screen exhibition of yours and everyone else’s favorite covers.

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Type Salon: Photo-Lettering and You

More information coming soon. RSVP now.

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Letter as Image

Chief letterer and typeface designer, Ken Barber, will offer a behind the scenes peak at House’s production process while showcasing some of the studio’s more recent forays into alphabetic ostentatiousness.

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Shadowboxing : Duality in Design

Hear Staehle talk about how everything good in design comes in twos, and how professional work can inform your personal work and vice versa.

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Unimark International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design

Book signing with Jan Conradi and special guests.

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Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story

Book signing featuring Paul Shaw and special guests.

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Type Salon: Painted Words, Tainted Logos

For almost four decades John Langdon has been seeing things in the words of the English language and the names of American businesses and products that most of us might not have even imagined. His logos reveal the essence of a company’s soul with clarity, beauty, and wit. His love of type is unexceeded.

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Holiday Party, Silent Auction and Special Guest: The Chopping Block

The Chopping Block opened its studio doors in 1996 with one ambition—“World Domination Through Graphic Design.” Today, our full-service graphic design firm uses this principle to inform every aspect of our projects. Whether creating identities, interactive, or print, our work has proven that intuitive, engaging design drives solutions and spans mediums.

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Type Salon: Your Client is Your Worst Enemy

They’ll withhold your money. They’ll stomp all over your ideas. They’ll make you want to scream. Designers beware – Clients from hell are on the loose!

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The Society of Scribes in cooperation with the Type Directors Club presents: Tony Di Spigna On Typographics and Spencerian

Tony Di Spigna was born on the Island of Ischia, Italy and is a graduate of New York City Community College and Pratt Institute. Tony was a partner in the legendary studio of Lubalin Associates where he worked on all aspects of visual communication and graphic design.

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Web Fonts in Action

Join Roger Black (Font Bureau) and Bill Davis (Ascender Corp) as they present a variety of websites deploying Web Fonts, provide an overview of best practices and tackle tough questions from the audience on this exciting topic.

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Type Salon: Outlines, Shades, and Shiny Bits (the stuff sign painters can’t resist)

John Downer is a sign painter by trade, with a specialty in gold leaf lettering.

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Type Salon: Cooking with Type

More information coming soon. RSVP now.

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Typography: The line that roars in the jungle of multi-dimensional communication

Sponsored by the New York chapter of the American Printing History in
Association with the Type Directors Club

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Type Salon: Scott Stowell

More information coming soon. RSVP now.

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TDC Education Series: TDC Urban Lettering Tour: Greenwich Village and Soho

The 10th TDC Urban Lettering Tour will return to Manhattan. We will focus on Greenwich Village and Soho, two neighborhoods that have gone from hip to forgotten as they have become overrun with tourists.

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Tina Roth Eisenberg, Swiss Miss and Silent Auction “Beautiful Banal”

Tina Roth Eisenberg, Swiss Miss and Silent Auction “Beautiful Banal”

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Walking Tour of Midtown East of Fifth Avenue with Paul Shaw

Midtown Manhattan is a tourist destination for good reason. It is full of some of the best buildings—and hence best lettering—in the city since it is the heart of 20th c. New York.

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Etched in Flesh: Garamond, Helvetica, Univers, Caslon and more

Typographic tattoo expert Ina Saltz will share images and the fascinating stories behind the tattoos from her new book, “Body Type 2: More Typographic Tattoos” (the sequel to “Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh”).

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Experience = Tools

Alex Trochut will do an overview of some projects, explaining their process of creation and inspiration, explaining the experiences learned on each project.

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Walking Tour of Flatiron District and Union Square with Paul Shaw

Walk the streets and see the lettering that helps give these two neighborhoods so much of their charm. Instead of Art Deco we will see a wider range of letterforms dating from the late 19th c. to the 1970s.

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Type Salon: Ideas vs. Style —
why one can no longer live without the other

Stewart Devlin, Chief Creative Officer of Read Peak Group, will lead an interactive discussion while referencing case studies spanning various industries and mediums.

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Legacy of Letters, a lettering tour of Italy

After a decade of quiescence Legacy of Letters is back with a new lettering tour of Italy. This time the tour, led by Paul Shaw and Alta Price, will bypass Rome and Florence and instead explore the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna regions.

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Textile: Typography of the 19th Century Textile Trade

A lecture by Adrian Wilson about his unique collection of typefaces and trademarks last seen in use by 19th century fabric merchants.

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Ed Rondthaler (1905-2009)

The Type Directors Club mourns the passing of one of its founding fathers, Dr. Ed Rondthaler, who died Wednesday at the grand age of 104.

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TDC56 and TDC2 2010

Early Bird deadline: Friday, December 18, 2009 Final deadline: Friday, January 8, 2010 More information coming soon.

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2008 Scholarship Winners

Florian Brozek The Cooper Union James Dunphy Parsons School of Design Magdalena Fumagalli Universidad de Buenos Aires Joshua Hearn Fashion Institute of Technology Sarah Nguyen School of Visual Arts Michelle Park CalArts Natasha R. Rodriguez-Bacchus Pratt Institute* *The scholarship presented to Pratt Institute is named in honor of Mr. Mahlon Cline, who bequeathed a substantial [...]

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Type Camp

Strengthen your graphic design career and revive your inspiration by expanding your knowledge of typography through creative self-discovery.

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The world of Arabic typography: Politics, culture, and visual identity

Linotype’s Arabic specialist and Branding Manager, Nadine Chahine, will give a 2-day workshop as an introduction to Arabic type design.

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Professional Practices Bootcamp: The Business of Design

Learn the skills and tools required to run, manage and maintain a profitable and successful creative business—managing projects, time, clients, staff and money.

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Ken Barber: Letter as Image Workshop

Ken Barber will share some of the studio’s top secret letter-making recipes, reacquainting workshop participants with drawing basics as they take a crack at creating their own one of a kind wordmarks.

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Effective Proposal and Pricing Strategies

Get paid what you’re worth. Write winning proposals. Create smart pricing strategies.

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Gourmet Typography 1: The First Step in Learning to Communicate More Effectively with Type

Gain the expert-level typographic skills and aesthetics necessary to visibly improve your type.

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Gourmet Typography 2: The Next Step in Learning to Communicate More Effectively with Type

Gain the expert-level typographic skills and aesthetics necessary to visibly improve your type.

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Staffing and Managing Your Team for Success

In this course, you will learn organizational and inspirational management systems and structures that ensure a motivated and dedicated team.

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TypeCon2009 Discount for TDC Members

Because of the ongoing partnership between SOTA and the Type Directors Club, we are pleased to offer you a special discount off TypeCon2009 admission. Early registration is open through June 29, and seating is limited – register now to enure your place!

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Health Insurance Options for TDC Members

The TDC has been negotiating with companies to offer health and dental insurance for our U.S. members. We have several options. Please contact the companies directly to determine whether their coverage and pricing is right for you.

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TDC 55 Winners

We’re proud to announce the winners of TDC 55. The winners listed below will be featured in Typography 30. This year’s competition saw a total of 1733 entries from 33 countries: of the total, 957 (55%) from the U.S. and 776 (45%) from other countries. Total work selected included 215 from 21 countries. Of the [...]

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Event & Type Salon Schedule

Click to see the full 09 – 10 Type Salon and Event schedule.

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Fancy: Ornamented Typefaces and Artistic Printing in the Nineteenth Century

Joint meeting of TDC and APHA (American Printing History Association) with Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas This illustrated talk presents the unique opportunity to explore MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, the largest and most influential American type foundry of the nineteenth century, and the ingenious eccentricities of Artistic Printing, the movement that challenged the limitations of [...]

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TDC Urban Lettering Tour: A Trip on the Trains

This lettering walk, led by Paul Shaw, will focus on the subway system. We will take the L train from Seventh Avenue (actually Sixth Avenue) and 14th Street in Manhattan to Broadway Junction in Brooklyn and then return o Eighth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan via the A train. Along he way we will [...]

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Type 201: From Fat Faces to Superfamilies

Admit it. You’re a type junkie. You crave type and anything to do with type. You go into raptures at the sight of a well-kerned headline. You salivate at the thought of a new version of Garamond or Bodoni. You swoon when given the opportunity to caress the bowl of a 72 pt Fry’s Baskerville [...]

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Type School

Education has always been an important part of the Type Directors Club’s purpose. The TDC began offering lectures in 1947, the second year of the Club’s existence. Called Ten Talks on Type, the lectures were given by James Secrest, Arnold Bank, Gene Ettenberg, Charles Felton, Milton Zudeck, O. Alfred Dickman, Joseph Weiler, Frank Powers, and [...]

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Typographer’s Typography

The Type Directors Club has been advancing and preserving the best of typography for over 60 years. That’s a long time. Typography, the TDC annual, is testimony to the remarkable evolution of style and technology in our profession—from modernism to mashups, from metal type to Minion Pro, from bookplates to broadband. If the last 5000 [...]

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Video: Things Not Pictures — Part 1

This is part one of Things Not Pictures, a Type Salon presentation by Joshua Darden, chief designer of Darden Studio. In this video Joshua talks about his work for Tatler Asia.

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Unique Types Project

We’re proud to present you the Unique Types Project, an unprecedented initiative that brings together designers, agencies and media vehicles around a noble cause: celebrating the differences and fighting prejudice.

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Movie Night at Cove House

“Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu” 1980, 29 minutes David Loeb Weiss, Producer and Director Carl Schlesinger, Narrator A joint program with A to A Studio Solutions Wednesday, April 29, 2009 A to A Studio Solutions, Ltd Cove House 47 Euclid Avenue Stamford, CT 06902 6:15pm Cocktails, Refreshments and Popcorn; 7:00pm Film Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu Filmed on July [...]

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The Liberated Letter

Waving his magic wand and speaking with his colorful (Brooklyn) accent, Ed Benguiat will take us through a typographic journey from BC (before computers) to the present New York scene, which will blow you away. He’ll even take you on an awesome tour through his home. Which by the way leads up to some remarkable [...]

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The Storyteller’s Art

A Retrospective of the Work of Designer Kit Hinrichs Design show at the Art Center in LA. For more information visit: www.artcenter.edu/williamson/

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Designing Type: The Work of Matthew Carter

Designing Type: The Work of Matthew Carter, a lecture at 7 p.m. Monday at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. $25; $20 Corcoran members. Register by calling 202-639-1770 or visiting http://www.corcoran.org

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Things, Not Pictures

Joshua Darden, chief designer of Darden Studio (DardenStudio.com) RSVP

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Custom and Altered Type: The Process

Looking at strong type solutions is always satisfying. But examining the inspirations and behind-the-scenes process of custom and altered type is even more satisfying. I will be discussing the majority of my work from the style pages of The New York Times Magazine and The Lives They Lived Issues. I may even throw in my [...]

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Smashing Alphabets with Chank and Spunk

Typographic inspirations, improvisations and renovations with alphabetician Chank Diesel and the Spunk Design Machine. (www.chank.com) RSVP

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Books on Typography

Type Directors Club President, Charles Nix, has compiled this list of books on typography. By clicking on these links and purchasing a book you will be helping to support the TDC. If you would like to suggest a book, please click here. The ABC’s of [triangle circle square], The Bauhaus and Design Theory Ellen Lupton [...]

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TDC Book Fair

The Type Directors Club is pleased to announce the inaugural TDC Book Fair at our club office on West 36th Street. The fair is open to the general public Friday 29th May from 3pm to 9pm and Saturday 30th May from 11am to 5pm.

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TDC.org Honored by GD USA

The Type Directors Club is honored to have our new Web site recognized by the GD USA, 2009 American Web Design Awards. We are committed to continually improving the site with features and content that make it the leading destination for typographers and lovers of typography around the world.

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HOW Design Conference: Special Registration Rate for TDC Members

You’re invited to join HOW magazine in Austin, Texas, June 24-27 for the 2009 HOW Design Conference. You’ll get four days packed with software instruction, creativity boosters and tips for growing your career in a tough economy, plus a wealth of innovative ideas and great design work.

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TDC Space Available for Rent

Ideal space for presentations, press conferences, teaching – classroom/workshops, receptions, book launches, meetings, conferences, photo shoots etc.

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Type Nouveau

Approaching the art of typography as a graphic designer and illustrator, I am naturally drawn towards more decorative fonts and unique typography. Generally elaborate, one-of-a-kind, designed by hand and finished on the computer, I call this style ‘Type Nouveau’. There seems to be a steady increase of young graphic designers that are also drawn to [...]

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Letter Forms as Content: A Show & Tell with Designer and Book Artist Russell Maret

Co-sponsored by the Type Directors Club (TDC), Society of Scribes (SoS), American Printing History Association (APHA) Russell Maret began studying letterpress printing in 1989 in San Francisco. Initially studying with Peter Koch, he went on to be resident printer at the Press in Tuscany Alley, and to continue his studies at Firefly Press in Somerville, [...]

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What I See

Kevin Smith, former partner of Giampietro+Smith (Studio-GS.com) Kevin Smith is a talented designer, typographer, and teacher. He worked with TsangSeymour Design and Winterhouse before starting Giampetro+Smith (with Rob Giampietro) in 2003. In 2007, Print Magazine selected him for their "New Visual Artists: 20 Talents Under 30" issue. He has recently started his own studio called [...]

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Advertising Design and Typography

Registration is required. Space is limited. $275 for TDC members, $350 for non-members. Advance payment by check or credit card. Alex W. White is the author of six books (including Advertising Design and Typography, Thinking in Type, and The Elements of Graphic Design) and numerous articles on typography and visual communication. This three-session class investigates [...]

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Font Design for Non-Type Designers

This class will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild journey into the mysterious world of type design. Go past choosing fonts from the type menu to creating your own personalized typefaces.

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Numbers: A Silent Auction to Benefit the TDC Scholarship Fund

Numbers are mighty powerful. But they can also make our eyes can glaze over–especially when the numbers are in the billions and trillions. To liven things up, the TDC has invited a group of ultra-talented designers (James Victore, Strange Attractors, Deb Bishop, Matteo Bologna, and Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich to name a few) to [...]

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Free Issue of Eye Magazine for TDC Members

The Type Directors Club has teamed up with Eye, the international review of graphic design and is pleased to announce a special offer for its members.

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Do we need more fonts?

One of the things I have struggled with as a type designer is explaining what I do for a living. This was especially true when I was starting out. I might be at a party with my girlfriend, now my wife, and we would be meeting some new people for the first time.

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Alex W. White

Alex W. White, managing Partner of The Alexander W. White Consultancy, works with advertising and editorial art directors as well as with editors and advertisers to guide them to an understanding of how design affects their targets’ needs.

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Typography 28

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the TDC53 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2007 Type Design Competition.

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Charles Nix

Charles Nix has been a member of the TDC since 1999. He has served on the Board since 2001, and has been Secretary-Treasurer since 2004. He chaired the 2005 TDC 51 competition, and the 2004 TDC2 type design competition.

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Typography 27

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the TDC52 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2006 Type Design Competition.

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Typography 26

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the TDC51 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2005 Type Design Competition.

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Typography 25

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the fiftieth anniversary TDC50 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2004 Type Design Competition.

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Typography 24

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the TDC49 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2003 Type Design Competition.

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Typography 23

This color Annual includes the 158 winning selections from 2350 entries into the TDC48 Typography Competition, and the 15 winning selections from 119 entries into the TDC² 2002 Type Design Competition.

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Typography 22

This color Annual includes the 140 winning selections from entries into the TDC47 Typography Competition and the 14 winning selections from entries into the TDC² 2001 Type Design Competition.

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Typography 21

This full-color Annual contains over 300 winning selections from entries in the TDC46 Typography Competition and of the TDC² 2000 Type Design Competition.

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The TDC Gets Social

Stay in touch with the Type Directors Club by following us on Twitter and join our growing network of typographers on Facebook.

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The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway

The true story of Helvetica in the subway system wlll be untangled, explained and displayed by Paul Shaw on February 5 at the Type Directors Club. Before you arrive, look at the subway signs you encounter as you travel from work or home.

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Gunter Gerhard Lange (1921-2008)

Type designer, communicator and teacher, Günter Gerhard Lange passed away on 2 December 2008.

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TDC 55 Judging

Judging for Typography 55 took place January 16-18 at FIT in New York City.

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Diego Vainesman

With more than 20 years of design experience, argentinian born Diego Vainesman started his own desing firm, 40N47 Design, to provide clients with all sorts of design ranging from promotional cards to large environmental graphics identities.

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Lou Dorfsman 1918 – 2008

Typographer, designer, and art director extraordinaire, Lou Dorfsman passed away on 22 October.

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Graham Clifford

Graham Clifford is a second-generation typographic designer. He was trained by his father before working for some of London’s best advertising agencies CDP and GGT. He moved to New York in 1989 and plied his craft at Chiat/Day and Ogilvy.

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Marc Blaustein

Marc Blaustein was raised by artist/designer parents in Manhattan and has been living in Brooklyn for the past 14 years. His formal training took place at The Cooper Union School of Art, with a stint at Parsons School of Design, followed by post-graduate work at Middlesex University in London.

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Matteo Bologna

Matteo Bologna is the founder and President of New York-based Mucca Design Corporation, where he also serves as Creative Director. Born and raised in Milan, Italy, Matteo’s grounding in architecture, graphic design, illustration and typography facilitated his early business successes and inspired his decision to create a New York agency.

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Scott Citron

Scott Citron is an award-winning graphic designer and publishing consultant based in New York City. A designer of fine books, logos, and websites, his clients include Adobe Systems, Random House, HarperCollins Publishers, Walker & Company, the InDesign and Creative Suite Conferences, InDesign Magazine, American Jewish University, and Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.

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Sean King

Sean King is currently Design Director of Corporate Communications at Landor Associates, where he oversees a variety of print and digital communications. A self-proclaimed design nerd, he is passionate about both the history and the future of typography and lettering.

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Brian D. Miller

Brian Miller is an award-winning designer, author and lecturer who specializes in branding for the Web and print. Brian’s experience spans from being the in-house creative director of Gartner Inc. — a global technology consulting firm — to principal design director of the Brian Miller Design Group.

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Rosanne Guararra

Rosanne Guararra is currently the Creative Director/VP at Triumph Learning, an educational publishing house in New York City. Previously, she was the art director at Grosset & Dunlap/Price Stern Sloan, the mass market imprints of Penguin Young Readers Group where she responsible for upwards of 300 book covers per year. She has also been art director at Golden Books, Simon and Schuster Children’s Trade and Education Division, and Highlights for Children.

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Ina Saltz

Ina Saltz is an art director, author and professor (of Electronic Design and
Multimedia at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are
typography and magazine design. For over 22 years, Ina was an editorial
design director at Time (International Editions), Worth, Golf Magazine and
others.

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Jakob Trollbäck

A self-taught designer from Sweden, Jakob Trollbäck leads an innovative and highly successful company, creates seminal and award-winning designs, and is an acknowledged industry leader in branding and motion graphic design.

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Anne Twomey

Anne Twomey is presently a VP/Creative Director of Cover Art for the newly formed Hachette Book Group USA, formerly Time Warner Book Group, where she oversees the cover designs of over 300 books a year.

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Scott Valins

Originally from the midwest, Scott Valins threw himself headfirst into a design career as an architect at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. His studio time there led to an erratic multidisciplinary design career.

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Carol Wahler

Carol Wahler is celebrating her twenty-fourth year with the Type Directors Club. Ms. Wahler has a type background from working in her families’ businesses that spans starting with the period of ludlow typesetting in the 50′s through today – the digital world.

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Typography for Print: The Finer Points

Learn the expert-level typographic skills and aesthetics necessary to master typography for print. This sessions will sharpen your eye and give you the practical skills that will visibly improve your type, as well as (re)ignite your passion for typography.