A sexy night to step into the sultry world where letters meet libido.

Typography After Dark explores the penetrative role of typography in porn, from vintage erotica to modern-day visual media. Discover how typefaces shape desire, communicate intimacy, and play a subtle yet powerful role in the art and marketing of sensuality.

Join Silas Munro, Yihuang Zhou, Elizabeth Goodspeed & Zipeng Zhu for an evening of saucy talks, juicy visuals, and anything goes discussions about the intersection of design, sexuality, and culture. Whether you’re a designer, a typophile, or simply curious, this event promises to unveil the playful, provocative, and profound stories hidden in the curves and contours of the letters we love.

Silas Munro is a designer, artist, writer, researcher, curator and surfer. He is founder of the design studio Polymode that works with clients across cultural spheres. Commissions and collaborations include: The New York Times Magazine, MIT Press, Nike, Airbnb, the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, LA MOCA. Munro is the curator and author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest at Letterform Archive, and Reverberations: Lineages in Design History, opening at the Ford Foundation Gallery in the Spring of 2025. He was a contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America and co-authored the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19–21st Century. His work was recently exhibited at Lesley University, LA Design Festival, and the Scottsdale Museum of Art, and is included in the collections of Tufts University, and the Montalvo Arts Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2025 include a solo show at The University of Hartford’s Joseloff Gallery, and in the group show Printing Black America at Print Center New York, curated by Tiffany E. Barber. Munro is Founding Faculty, Chair Emeritus for the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Zipeng Zhu is a Chinese-born artist, designer, art director, illustrator, and animator in New York City who wants to make every day a razzle-dazzle musical. His clients include Apple, Adidas, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN, MTV, and Samsung. He was one of the Art Directors Club Young Guns 13 winners and has been recognized as Print magazine’s New Visual Artist and The One Show Young Ones. His work has been exhibited all over the world including New York, Barcelona, Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing and other major museums and institutions. Now he runs his creative practice Dazzle Studio and gift shop Dazzle Supply to push dazzle to the next level.

Yihuang Zhou is a graphic designer who navigates the intersections of cultural identity and design. Born in Taicang, China, traditional Chinese calligraphy training and the country’s rapidly changing visual landscape profoundly shaped his design perspective.

Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2019 with a BFA in Design, Zhou’s career has spanned design roles in both China and the United States. He currently works as a Senior Designer at Mother Design in New York City and is pursuing the Type@Cooper Extended Program for Typeface Design.

Outside of design, Zhou is passionate about cooking, which he considers another creative outlet that engages all five senses.

Elizabeth Goodspeed is an independent designer and writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. She’s collaborated with clients like Herman Miller, Phaidon, HBO, and The Whitney Museum, as well as many studios—including Pentagram, Mythology, High Tide, RoAndCo and Porto Rocha. She’s also the US Editor-at-Large for It’s Nice That, where she writes a monthly column on design and visual culture, and contributes to Fast Company, PORT, The Architect’s Newspaper, and AIGA Eye on Design. She publishes “Casual Archivist,” a newsletter about design history, and teaches at RISD and Parsons.