In 2013, type designer Max Phillips followed his Irish wife from New York City to Dublin and found a close-knit, fast-growing, and welcoming design community. He'll talk about running a small type foundry in a new country, collaborating with Dublin designers on Dublin institutions, and learning what "Irish" means from Irish people continually answering that […]
Type Directors Club thanks the École de Communication Visuelle (ECV) Lille for the French debut of the "World's Best Typography" exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club's 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition. The "World's Best Typography" exhibition includes over 280 selections of winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface […]
TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly gathering of type geeks, held at Type Directors Club. We like to think of ourselves as a type superfamily: we attract local letterform lovers hailing from all disciplines and levels of expertise. Social hours bookend the centerpiece of our event, a group critique we refer to as Type Crit. What the […]
Type Directors Club thanks The Cooper Union, Type@Cooper, and the Herb Lubalin Study Center for hosting the New York City debut of The World's Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club's 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition. Everyone is invited to see the exhibition through August 9. The exhibition […]
The Type Directors Club invites members, its honorees, and the press to the private New York opening of The World’s Best Typography: The 65th Annual Exhibition of the Type Directors Club. The exhibition features communication design and the selections from the twenty-first annual typeface design competition, which will be on display through August 9, 2019. […]
So many contemporary brand typefaces look alike. The Kontrapunkt type department in Copenhagen believes that diversity is important in every aspect of life, including design and type design. On a quest to fight typographic monoculture Torsten will share strategies and experiences with designing letters that tell stories – drawing parallels to the arts of architecture, […]
TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly gathering of type geeks, held at Type Directors Club. We like to think of ourselves as a type superfamily: we attract local letterform lovers hailing from all disciplines and levels of expertise. Social hours bookend the centerpiece of our event, a group critique we refer to as Type Crit. What the […]
Have a glass of wine and join the Type Directors Club board of directors in celebrating some of the best designers in the world: Daniel Brokstad (New York) Vincent Chan (Melbourne) Fernanda Cozzi (Buenos Aires) Sean Freeman (London) Ben Grandgenett (New York) Anthony Hos (Auckland) Ben Johnston (Toronto) Abraham Lule (New York) Loris Olivier (Geneva) […]
TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts. The majority of the TypeCon program (see below) takes place at the Hilton Minneapolis from August 28th to September 1st in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consult the TypeCon program page […]
The Type Directors Club and the Society of Typographic Aficionados are pleased to announce that lettering artist and illustrator Juan Carlos Pagan will be giving a special presentation on Thursday, August 29th, as part of TypeCon2019 “Nice” in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Plus, a we are hosting a screenprinting activity with Facebook Analog Research Lab! After the […]