Come meet the judges of the TDC Communication Design and Type Design competitions and mingle with fellow type and design enthusiasts. Hosted by the competition chairs, Liz DeLuna, Douglas Riccardi and Juan Villanueva and featuring your judges: Maria Doreuli, Contrast Foundry Greg Gazdowicz, Commercial Type Laura Meseguer, Type-O-Tones Wael Morcos, Morcos Key Rebecca Gimenez, IA […]
This workshop offers participants an opportunity to spend a day learning from and creating under the guidance of award-winning Barcelona typeface designer Laura Meseguer. Goals To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces. Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future. Reflect on the role of […]
She Designs Books will be celebrating two years of recognizing women designers working in book publishing with a design panel and exhibition at Type Directors Club. Art directors and book cover designers, Catherine Casalino, Cassie Gonzales, and Julianna Lee will present their book covers, discuss their design process, and discuss how designers navigate the cover-approval […]
This event is the first in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts. This evening will feature: Wael Morcos, with a talk entitled "Right to Left: A Practice" Dr. Nadine […]
This event is the second in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts. The afternoon will feature: Tarek Atrissi, who will be discussing "Branding with Arabic Typography" Tala Safie will […]
In design, visual expression is informed by an understanding of history, language, symbols, patterns and image aesthetics. It is imperative that designers have a strong foundation in these areas in order to support the creation of culturally conscious work. Despite this awareness, there remain gaps in design history that neglect showing a broad spectrum of […]
Screen-based design has grown up, but there's still so much to keep up with. Best practices for font loading. Licensing fonts for apps. OpenType Variable Fonts. The myriad of places to find new fonts. Elliot will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type […]
In this deeply detailed but varied all-day workshop, Elliot will cover a huge spectrum of typographic knowledge, from foundational best practices and definitions to the very latest techniques and technologies for setting great type across multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of […]
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 […]
This event is the third in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts. This evening will feature: David Crossland, who will discuss variable fonts Mamoun Sakkal, who will present "Calligraph, […]