The TDC Awards @ 71: The Judges Reflect | Session 1 of 2
2025-01-22 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, Virtual
For a milestone 71 years, the Type Directors Club’s Annual Competition has been celebrating the very best typography, lettering, and design the world has to offer. As we head towards the February 2025 entry deadline for this year’s awards, we invite you to reflect on that history with us!

Please join us virtually for two engaging panels featuring some of this year’s esteemed TDC71 judges as they reflect on past winners that have stood the test of time, as well as the projects they’ve seen in 2024 that deserve to stand alongside these historical gems.
Because the TDC Awards is a global competition, with submissions from all corners of the world, our panels are timed so that at least one is convenient for your time zone. First, tune in on Wednesday, January 22 at 9 AM ET — morning for those in the western hemisphere, afternoon for Europe and Africa, and evening for our Asia-Pacific entrants.
Can’t make it on the 22nd? Join us on Wednesday, January 29 at 5 PM ET — afternoon for the west coast of the Americas, evening for the east coast, late evening for Europe and Africa, and early morning for the Asia-Pacific region.

SPEAKERS FOR THIS SESSION INCLUDE

Christopher Caldwell, Partner at The Power of Friendship
Rutherford Craze, Type Designer at Mass-Driver
Aleksandra Samujenkova, Type Designer
Noemie Le Coz, Creative Director at Little Troop

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The TDC Awards @ 71: The Judges Reflect | Session 2 of 2
2025-01-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual, Virtual
For a milestone 71 years, the Type Directors Club’s Annual Competition has been celebrating the very best typography, lettering, and design the world has to offer. As we head towards the February 2025 entry deadline for this year’s awards, we invite you to reflect on that history with us!
Please join us virtually for two engaging panels featuring some of this year’s esteemed TDC71 judges as they reflect on past winners that have stood the test of time, as well as the projects they’ve seen in 2024 that deserve to stand alongside these historical gems.
Because the TDC Awards is a global competition, with submissions from all corners of the world, our panels are timed so that at least one is convenient for your time zone. First, tune in on Wednesday, January 22 at 9 AM ET — morning for those in the western hemisphere, afternoon for Europe and Africa, and evening for our Asia-Pacific entrants.
Can’t make it on the 22nd? Join us on Wednesday, January 29 at 5 PM ET — afternoon for the west coast of the Americas, evening for the east coast, late evening for Europe and Africa, and early morning for the Asia-Pacific region.

SPEAKERS FOR THIS JANUARY 29 SESSION INCLUDE

Mary Kate McDevitt, Lettering Artist at Panton
Lipi Raval, Type Designer
Eric Hu, Type Designer at Eric Hu Studio

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Typography After Dark w/ Special Guests
2025-02-19 18:30 - 21:00 | Mother, 77 10th Street #3rd Floor, Brooklyn, 11215, United States
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.
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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.

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Walk Like an Egyptienne
2026-06-04 18:30 - 20:00 | The One Club, 450 W 31st St, Floor 6, New York, NY, 10001, United States
New York magazine’s signature display type has been part of its visual DNA since Milton Glaser first chose Photo-Lettering’s interpretation of Egyptienne Bold Condensed in the 1960s. XYZ Type recently created a new, more versatile variable typeface tailored to the magazine’s entire ecosystem, addressing longstanding design challenges.
Ian Adelman, chief experience officer of Vox Media, and Thomas Alberty, design director of New York, will share the client perspective on this process, in counterpoint with the lead designer of the new typeface, Ben Kiel, partner at XYZ Type. This project provides a look into the unique ecosystem of periodical design and the process of developing a proprietary typographic solution without upsetting the strengths of a well-established brand.

Thursday, June 4
6:30 pm door / 7 pm talk
TDC Gallery
450 W 31st ST, 6th Floor
