Type Directors Club

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

Exhibition: Widows and Orphans

Glyphs: a new font editor now in public beta

Glyphs is a new font editor for the Mac, in public beta testing right now. Anyone can download and test drive it, and ostensibly use it for OpenType font design. (There are still some bugs, but the creator seems to be responding to beta testers’ concerns quickly in each new release.) One of Glyphs major [...]

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.