Type Directors Club

Information Graphics: Sandra Rendgen & Julius Wiedemann
2021-01-28 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering the complex variety of data floating around us, sometimes the best—or even only—way to communicate is visually. Sandra Rendgen and Julius Wiedemann will discuss their new book, Information Graphics, which presents a fascinating perspective on the subject, highlighting the work of the masters of the profession such as Charles Minard, Aaron Koblin, and David McCandless, creators of breakthroughs that have changed the way we communicate. Information Graphics has been conceived and designed not just for graphics professionals, but for anyone interested in the history and practice of communicating visually.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Whatever Makes You Smile, Using Typography — Masashi Kawamura
2021-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
I will be speaking about some of my past work which utilizes typography in non-traditional ways, such as SOUR “Hibi No Neiro” music video (TDC Tokyo winner), androp “Bell” (TDC Tokyo winner) music video, and “T” Shirts (personal project).
Masashi is the Chief Creative Officer at Whatever Inc. He continues to explore creativity in a variety of fields including advertising, music videos, product design, digital installations, etc. He has been chosen as one of the Creativity magazine’s "Creative 50," and Fast Company’s “100 most creative people in business”.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Talking Type with Saki Mafundikwa
2021-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join the brilliant designer, typographer, and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) for a rare lunchtime talk.
Saki is one of our esteemed judges for the 2021 TDC Superscript Scholarship for BIPOC design students, a $5,000 award for college juniors and first year master’s students.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Genius on Display: Rush Jackson @ Poster House
2021-02-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster House, New York, NY, United States
This free program series is sponsored by Poster House CMYK Council, a working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Rush Jackson of Onyx Self-Imaging Labs for the inaugural event in our Genius on Display series. Genius on Display is a platform for spotlighting the expertise of BIPOC artists and designers within the context of Poster House’s exhibitions and permanent collection. Tonight, Rush will share their innovative work in publication and brand identity design in relation to our recent exhibition The Swiss Grid.
Rush Jackson (they/them) is an artist and independent graphic designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Moving fluidly between art and design-oriented practices, Jackson is invested in expanding the Black cultural lexicon through collaborative methods of production, such as graphic design and publishing, while maintaining an independent studio practice consisting of printed matter, painting, video, and installation.
In 2020, Jackson created Onyx Self-Imaging Labs, a full service, independent graphic design and art direction studio working with clients/collaborators in the arts and culture spheres, as well as prioritizing design for grassroots organizing and advocacy contexts. Recent and notable design projects include publication design for The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art & Fashion, To The Front: Black Women & The Vote, and The PhotoBook Review Issue 18, published by Aperture Foundation.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Learning the Rules is for Breaking the Rules: Ken-tsai Lee
2021-02-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Ken-tsai Lee is the founder of ken-tsai lee design lab/Taiwan TECH. He is the Taiwan representative of Type Directors Club NY and Taiwan representative of Art Directors Club NY. Ken-tsai is also Design director of Taiwan designers’ week.
See more of Ken-tsai Lee's work
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Genius on Display: Tré Seals @ Poster House
2021-02-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster House, New York, NY, United States
This free program series is sponsored by Poster House CMYK Council, a working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.
Poster House is excited to partner with Tré Seals of Vocal Type Co for the second event in our Genius on Display series, a platform for spotlighting the expertise of BIPOC artists and designers within the context of Poster House’s exhibitions and permanent collection. Tonight, Tré will share timely and thought-provoking work in typeface design in relation to our recent exhibition The Swiss Grid.
Tré Seals is the founder and type director of Vocal Type, the preeminent type foundry inspired by the lack of diversity in the graphic design industry. Each typeface highlights a piece of history from a different underrepresented race, ethnicity, or gender—from the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Argentina to the Civil Rights Movement in America and beyond.
Since its founding in 2016, VTC fonts have traveled around the world: from street murals and protest signs to census, voting, and brand campaigns for companies large and small.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Designing Type: The More I Learn, The Less I Know: Karen Cheng
2021-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Designing Type has been described as a highly rational guide to the anatomy of letters. In this talk, author Karen Cheng will explain her obsessive interest in dissecting type, and describe her efforts—both successes and failures—to create the “perfect” introductory course to type design.
Karen Cheng is Professor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Designing Type, which (as of October 2020) is available in a new, fully revised and redesigned edition.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

A History of Arab Graphic Design: Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar
2021-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
A History of Arab Graphic Design traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a field of graphic design in the Arab world. Examining the work of over eighty key designers from Morocco to Iraq, and covering the period from pre-1900 to the end of the twentieth century, Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar chart the development of design in the region, beginning with Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy, and their impact on Arab visual culture, through to the digital revolution and the arrival of the Internet. They look at how cinema, economic prosperity, and political and cultural events gave birth to and shaped the founders of Arab graphic design.
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Alphabet City: Adrian Wilson
2021-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Adrian Wilson will describe how has been combining typography and wordplay to anonymously transform New York’s street and subway signage into world famous tributes, from David Bowery to Aretha Franklin Avenue.
Wilson’s father and two older brothers were all renowned graphic designers in Manchester, England. Wilson chose to be a photographer instead and, despite amassing a unique vintage typography collection, spent 50 years avoiding the inevitability of his DNA. Text based street art was his anonymous release and after revealing his identity last year, he is now the most famous graphic designer of the Wilson family.
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The Search for Mies Typography: Branding 900 910 Lake Shore Drive
2021-04-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
These are questions asked by Sofya Karah and Dan McManus, Design Directors at The Narrative, while rebranding 900 910 North Lake Shore Drive, a pair of perpendicular glass and steel highrise buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. They will be discussing their research-based methodology, historical discoveries about Mies van der Rohe, and the design process behind the rebrand of these iconic buildings.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Exploring Language, Politics and Typography: Kelly Walters
2021-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join designer Kelly Walters, author of the new book Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race, alongside design educators David Jon Walker and Shantanu Suman as they discuss the intersection of language, politics and typography in their design practice.
In this panel discussion, Kelly will share highlights from the interviews in her new book, and engage in a critical dialogue with contributors Shantanu and David about how handwritten calligraphy has the power to express necessary political truths and how Indian culture can be explored through Devanagari.
Together they will share where they find inspiration and how they have navigated the design industry.
David Jon Walker is a Graphic Designer and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He is also principal of Rhealistic Design, a design consultancy that is active locally and nationally. As a sought-after Black creative, Walker works with national political candidates, PACs, large non-profits, governmental entities, and varying businesses lending his talents to their marketing efforts to increase awareness and further campaigns. He examines social cues and the historical past to shape the aesthetic of his visual voice for personal lettering projects.
Shantanu Suman is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana. In a career spanning over seventeen years, Shantanu has worked in India and the United States as an art director, graphic designer, documentary filmmaker, and design educator. Shantanu constantly draws inspiration from his Indian roots and uses Hindi typography within his work to make Devanagari script relevant in the current design discourse.
Kelly Walters is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program in Parsons School of Design at The New School. In her independent design studio Bright Polka Dot, she works across platforms to create publications, exhibitions, and digital experiences for educational and cultural institutions. Her ongoing design research interrogates the complexities of identity, systems of value, and shared vernacular in and around Black visual culture.
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"Person Place Thing" with Gail Anderson
2021-04-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join us as Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen interviews the award-winning designer Gail Anderson in a live recording of the popular public radio series from the Type Directors Club.
Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director at Visual Arts Press at SVA. Anderson is a partner at Anderson Newton Design and serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS and the advisory board for Poster House.
She is the recipient of the 2018 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement and is an AIGA Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Anderson is co-author of 15 books on design, typography, and illustration with Steven Heller, and her work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Milton Glaser Design Archives at the School of Visual Arts.
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers
Person Place Thing takes place in front of an audience, with live music, at a variety of venues and is then edited for broadcast across a 23-station regional radio network, and a dozen other public radio stations around the country. You can stream PPT’s archive at PersonPlaceThing.org or download episodes via iTunes.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Type Drives Communities Conference 2021
2021-05-07 - 2021-05-08 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The Type Directors Club is pleased to present Type Drives Communities, an international conference exploring the ways in which people use typography to form and transform creative communities.
Join us virtually on Friday, May 7 and Saturday, May 8, 2021 for two half-days of illuminating talks, presentations, and group discussion spanning design disciplines and local and global communities. The conference will highlight communities that use typography to pursue a common purpose, establish intergenerational connections, and spark and sustain change. What do their strategies suggest about how we might navigate the challenges of our present moment of physical distance and virtual connection?
Register now at typedrivescommunities.org
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SPEAKERS & GUESTS
(as of March 8, 2021)
Hussein Alazaat
Yani Arabena
Andreu Balius
Tereza Bettinardi
Fer Cozzi
Fungai Dube
Rubén Fontana
Tapiwanashe Sebastian Garikayi
Lisa Huang 黄丽莎
Ishan Khosla
Batsirai Madzonga
Saki Mafundikwa
Sol Matas
Giang Nguyen
Panos Vassiliou
Ale Paul
Ariel Seoane
Paul Soulellis
Osmond Tshuma
Mariana Álvarez Uribe
Diego Vainesman
Guille Vizzari
Lettering: Cey Adams
Typeface: Paste by Tapiwanashe Sebastian Gariyaki

Playing with Words, Playing with Type — Eric Widjaja
2021-05-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Eric Widjaja founded Jakarta-based design studio Thinking*Room in 2005 after finding his love for graphic design in music and graduated from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. His work in telling a story with a clear voice and lasting characters through design, from working for brands to self-initiated projects, is established across the country and internationally.
Ritter Willy Putra is an Art Director at Thinking*Room since 2017 with broad expertise from designing for brand identity, installations to publications. He embraces story in design from the largest to the minuscule detail. His notable projects go as diverse as developing sculpture design for the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta to designing for Indonesian unicorn e-commerce, Bukalapak.
Website: thinkingroominc.com
Instagram: @thinkingroominc
Facebook: facebook.com/thinkingroominc
Behance: behance.net/thinkingroominc
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Creative Week
2021-06-07 - 2021-06-11 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Connect. Provoke. Inspire. Get ready for The One Club for Creativity’s Creative Week - Online from June 7th - 11th, 2021. This year we’re featuring sessions including everything from Education to Inclusion & Diversity to Executive Leadership and beyond, along with our industry’s most coveted and respected awards shows, The One Show and ADC Awards. And we’re offering special programming during the week for creatives in different time zones, making it convenient for just about anyone, anywhere in the world. Plus you’ll find sessions devoted to wellness and networking, making it a truly interactive experience. Register now and join us with the rest of the global creative community.

TDC67 and TD24 Judges Choices Announcement
2021-06-07 09:00 - 21:30 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
The One Club for Creativity is honored to announce the Special Awards and Best of Show Winners for the TDC Awards competition. Register for the free Award Stage during Creative Week. Click here to Register

TDC Scholarship Award Day, June 16
2021-06-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The TDC’s first female member, Beatrice Warde, was a journalist, scholar, and passionate advocate of education. Named in her honor and sponsored by Monotype, the scholarship recognizes one female-identifying college junior, whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography across current media, not just print.
The 2021 TDC Superscript Scholarship sponsored by Monotype recognizes BIPOC students studying type design at a college or university in the United States.
These two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded during the TDC Scholarship Day event.
Beatrice Warde Scholarship Committee

Gail Anderson | School of Visual Arts and Anderson + Newton
Deborah Gonet | Monotype
Shelley Gruendler | Type Camp
Ralitsa Debrah | Kwane University (KNUST), Ghana
Rathna Ramanathan | Royal Academy of Art
Fiona Ross | Reading University
Mariko Takagi | Hong Kong Baptist University

TDC Superscript Scholarship Committee

Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich | de Vicq design
Saki Mafundikwa | founder of ZIVA and author of Afrikan Alphabets
Nina Stössinger | Frere-Jones Type
David Jon Walker | Rhealistic Bobby Martin, Jr. | Champions Design

Additionally, the seven TDC Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each will be announced.

Lotus — the making of a magazine by and for Asian America
2021-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Tiffany is a Chinese-American illustrator and designer. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration and recently finished the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts. She is currently freelancing as a designer on the brand identity team at The New York Times.
Website: tiffany-pai.com
Instagram: @Tiffy_pai
Tiffany will be joined with her thesis mentor, Jennifer Kinon, founding partner of Champions Design. She is also a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Program and is president emeritus of AIGA/NY.
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"Person Place Thing" with Bobby Martin Jr.
2021-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Join us as Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen interviews Bobby C. Martin Jr. in a live recording of the popular public radio series.

Bobby C. Martin Jr. is co-founder of Champions Design, a branding and design agency headquartered in New York City.
He sets the relentless standard of design and vision for the agency he founded, with Jennifer Kinon, in 2010. Together they have partnered with a wide range of clients such as Amazon, Apple, Dartmouth College, Girl Scouts, MTV, the National Basketball Association and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Martin recently illustrated his first children’s book “Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter” (Tilbury House). In 2020, he was featured in the renowned design publication, Eye Magazine’s iconic 100th issue.
He has lectured about brand identity around the world, sat on numerous awards juries, and has been a special guest on Design Matters, Design Observer and NPR’s Studio 360. Martin served as a board member of AIGA/NY from 2006-08, and the board of the Type Directors Club from 2014-2021. In 2019, Champions Design was named one of the 30 Most Important Companies in Design by Fast Company. Bobby Martin has won numerous international awards from the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, D&AD, and the TDC, among others. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts where he currently serves on the faculty.
Randy Cohen's first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, "Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything," was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they find meaningful. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing of particular interest to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers.

Design at the crossroads of the Old and the New with Gabriel Martínez Meave
2021-09-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
In this talk, G.M.Meave tells us about his work and influences, from his life-long fascination with ancient Mexican codices to his fondness of Gothic letterforms, and the challenges of being a designer at the crossroads of the old and the new, the functional and the ornamented, the indigenous and the foreign. How extremely divergent cultures such as the Maya and the Spanish strive to make a common, hybrid, contemporary visual language, and the ups and
downs of being a type designer in Latin America.
Gabriel Martinez Meave is a Mexican designer, calligrapher, type designer and illustrator, working in Mexico City. He has executed artistic, commercial and corporate projects for clients such as Google, José Cuervo, Corona and Kellogg’s. He has made illustrations and cover art for books by Cornelia Funke, Juan Villoro, Gabriel García Márquez, among other authors. He has won numerous awards from the TDC, the ATypI and a!Diseño. He is professor and lecturer at various universities in Mexico and abroad. His typefaces are distributed by Adobe and Sudtipos.
Website: meave.com.mx
Instagram: @gmmeave
Facebook: @gabrielmeave
Behance: @gmmeave
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Teaching Yourself Typeface Design for Non-native Scripts with Toshi Omagari
2021-10-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Typeface design is about drawing and spacing beautiful letters, which is not as straightforward if you are making one for a script you haven't grown up with. In this talk, Toshi discusses the ways to approach a new writing system without committing yourself to a university degree.
Toshi Omagari is an independent typeface designer in London. After graduating from MA Typeface Design at the University of Reading, he has worked for Monotype where he made typefaces for a variety of scripts including Tibetan and Arabic. He is the author of the Arcade Game Typography.
Website: tosche.net/fonts
Twitter: @Tosche_E
Instagram: @toshiomagari
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Type for Justice with Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid
2021-10-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Isometric Studio partners Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid will share their recent work at the intersection of typography, architecture, and social justice. This includes brand identities and exhibition design projects for major educational and cultural clients including Google, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Museum of the City of New York. The partners will discuss the opportunities and complexities associated with navigating this work as queer people of color, engaging with complex social issues including gender equity, climate change, racial justice, LGBT identity, and immigrant rights.
Studio Profile
Isometric unites graphic design and architecture to create empowering visual identities and spatial experiences. Based in New York City, we collaborate with leading cultural institutions, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits to reinvent the way they present themselves visually and strategically. We express the missions of these organizations through visual identities, exhibitions, websites, and signage programs that convey intellectual rigor, aesthetic sophistication, and memorable storytelling. We believe in design that transcends existing expectations by challenging cliches and stereotypes in visual culture. In collaboration with our clients, we shape narratives and spaces of belonging. Through design, we advance an ethos of inclusion, equity, and justice, centering the lived experiences of marginalized people.
Andy Chen studied sociology at Princeton University, where he was awarded the Pyne Honor Prize, the university’s highest general undergraduate distinction. He then studied graphic design at RISD, where he received his MFA as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. Andy started his career at Pentagram, where he worked on the rebranding of Bausch + Lomb with partner Paula Scher. As a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal College of Art, Andy conducted ethnographic research on aging, sexuality, and social stigma. He is a contributor to Design Observer, Design Taxi, and Open Manifesto.
Andy has spoken at international conferences including the London Design Festival, Design Indaba, RGD DesignThinkers, and Kyoorius Designyatra. He has served on the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art and the School of Visual Arts.
Waqas Jawaid received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Princeton University and a Masters in Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At Princeton, he was awarded the Frederick White Prize for his thesis on architectural apartheid in the Paris banlieus. Waqas previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, SANAA, Harvard Art Museums, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He is a founding organizer of Climate Collective, a NYC-based organization that sparks civic discourse about climate change through design and storytelling.
Waqas has lectured at venues including Harvard University, the Center for Architecture, and Princeton University Art Museum. He has served on the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art and the School of Visual Arts.
Website: isometricstudio.com
Facebook, Instagram: @isometricstudio
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TDC Competition: Entry System Q&A
2021-10-27 00:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
About the Event
The One Club for Creativity has launched a brand new entry system for the TDC Communication and Type Design Competitions, and we'd love to share the new features with you.
UPCOMING SESSIONS:

October 27th at 9am ET (1pm GMT)
October 27th at 5pm ET (9pm GMT)

During this 1-hour live session with the TDC and One Club Team, you'll learn about:

Setting up your account
Managing your credits
Managing your media
New entry table functionality
Updated checkout process and payment options

Whether you're new to entering the TDC Annual Competition or you're a seasoned pro, this is a great opportunity for entrants to learn about what is new in our overhauled Awards System. We will include tips on managing your information and optimizing your entry flow, as well as leaving plenty of time to answer any questions you have!
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Not Typecast: Two Women and their Typography at Mid-Century
2021-10-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
About the Event
Briar Levit and Anne Galperin will tell the stories of Ellen Raskin and Betti Broadwater Haft, two New York-based contemporaries: one an illustrator turned book designer, turned author and the other, a multidisciplinary designer who was one of the rare women to design a typeface for Photo-lettering Inc. These are just two of the many histories featured in the forthcoming book of essays, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History.
About the Speakers
Briar Levit is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University. She studied at San Francisco State University for her undergraduate degree in graphic design and at Central Saint Martins in London for her MA in Communication Design. Levit spent her early career in publishing as Art Director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture magazine as well as an independent book designer. Her self-initiated publications are walking books that challenge the existing hiking guide genre. More recently, Levit’s feature-length documentary, Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production (2017) which follows design production from manual to digital methods, established an obsession with design history—particularly aspects not in the canon. She currently co-directs The People’s Graphic Design Archive with Louise Sandhaus and Brockett Horne and has edited a book of essays debuting October 26th, 2021 entitled Baseline Shift: Previously Untold Stories of Women Throughout Graphic Design History.
Anne Galperin is an Associate Professor of Art, and Graphic Design program director at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She earned a BSc in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University, and an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Before entering academia, Galperin edited and wrote for the Macmillan Publishing Company, was a freelance writer and researcher, and designed books in-house at Chronicle Books. Her body of work includes book design for alt-press, museum, and art book clients, including Four Walls Eight Windows/OR Books, the Walker Art Center, and Distributed Art Publishers. Her essay about American Designer Betti Broadwater Haft is included in Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History, edited by Briar Levit and to be released in late October 2021
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Meet the Judges I: Global Typeface Judges Day
2021-12-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Meet some of the 25TDC Typeface Design Jury moderated by Nadine Chahine, Committee Co-Chair.
This year marks the expansion of TDC’s Typeface Design Competition with 3 extra categories added for Arabic, Indic, and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) scripts. Each of these categories has 3 judges known for their expertise in that field.
Join us on December 9th to hear from our inaugural judges as they discuss how one can define excellence in type design in each of these 3 categories, if there is anything there that is unique to that script’s historical printing and typographic history, and to discuss the general state of type design at this point in time.
You can sign up for links to all three panels or join them individually (see ticket types). All events are FREE.

PANEL 1: CJK (9AM ET - NYC/10PM CST - BEIJING)

Kazuhiro Yamada
Minjoo Ham
Lisa Huang

PANEL 2: INDIC (10AM ET - NYC/8:30PM IST - NEW DELHI)

Kimya Gandhi
Neelakash Kshetrimayum
Anagha Narayanan

PANEL 3: ARABIC (11AM ET - NYC/6PM CAIRO)

Borna Izadpanah
Khajag Apelian
Mamoun Sakkal

Meet the Judges II: Communication Design
2022-01-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS:
TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email director@tdc.org for a code to reveal Members-Only Tickets.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Meet the TDC68 Communication Design Jury moderated by Manija Emran and Joe Newton, Committee Chairs.
At this event, the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 68th Communication Design competition will discuss their work, the state of communication design and typography today, and what they’ll be looking for when selecting the best use of typography in communication design in the world.
This year’s judges are:

Antonio Alcalá (Studio A)
Philippe Apeloig (Apeloig)
Anil Aykan (Barnbook)
Götz Gramlich (gggrafik design)
Eva Kellenberger (Kellenberger-White)
Frith Kerr (Studio Frith)
Hassan Rahim (12:01 AM)
Mehdi Saeedi (Mehdi Saeedi Studio)
Emma Thomas (A Practice for Everyday Life)
Osmond Tshuma (Mam'gobozi)
Kelly Walters (Bright Polka Dot)

TDC members get discounted access to this event. Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.
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Meet the Judges III: LGC Judges Day
2022-01-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS:
TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email director@tdc.org for a code to reveal Members-Only Tickets.

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Meet the second half of the 25TDC Typeface Design Jury moderated by Ksenya Samarskaya, Committee Co-Chair.
At this event, the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 25th Typeface Design competition will discuss their work, the state of communication design and typography today, and what they’ll be looking for when selecting the best use of typography in communication design in the world.

Kostas Bartsokas
Martin Majoor
Daria Petrova
Ulrike Rausch
Kara Gordon

Let's Make Letters... Together!
2022-02-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Even when trapped behind our computer screens, typography behaves as if it were physical: it stretches, it compresses, it thickens, it thins, and animates. In this workshop, Kelcey Gray will guide participants in using paper, pencil, and scissors to draw type and build folded paper structures that will serve as scaffolding for typographic manipulation.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER:
Kelcey Gray is an Austin, Texas–based graphic designer who spends her time working with words and exploring the possibilities of typography and lettering. She is the author of Let’s Make Letters! and currently teaches design and typography at the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas.

REGISTRATION:
DATE: Friday, February 4th, 2022
TIME: 2:00 pm - 5:00pm ET
WHERE: Online
PRICE: $45 ($30 for Members)
This event is discounted for The One Club for Creativity's and Type Directors Club Members. Members, please email director@tdc.org for a discount code.

How to Master the Chaos: Font Foundry Development Stages
2022-02-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
TypeType CEO Alexander Kudryavstev and Art Director Yulia Gonina will reveal they grew their type foundry and how you might grow yours too.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Congratulations! You’ve finally put in the courage and conviction to start your own studio! Now you just have to hold on for dear life to make sure it all doesn’t run away from you.
Luckily for you, TypeType CEO Alexander Kudryavstev and Art Director Yulia Gonina know exactly what you’re going through and have the typographical bumps and bruises to prove it.
Join us on Thursday, February 17 as Alexander and Yulia walk us through the growing pains of going from a dynamic duo to a thriving foundry of 32. Buckle in and you’ll learn this, this, and this, and by the end of it all , perhaps you’ll have a better sense of how to master your own chaos, whether you’re just starting out on your own, or have already amassed a few battle scars.
We'll have time for a live Q&A at the end of the talk, so that you can ask them about their journey and get advice on your own.
The TypeType font foundry team will tell you about the development stages of the company, the rapid growth from 2 employees to 32, and what font production problems we encountered and how we overcame them. Including:

Stages of TypeType's Development
Interesting Cases
Organization Problems and How They Were Solved

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Alexander Kudryavtsev, CEO
Yulia Gonina, Art Director

Keep Up with TypeType Foundry:
typetype.org
instagram.com/typetype.foundry
facebook.com/TypeTypeFonts

This event is free for TDC Members, please email director@tdc.org for an access code.

Type Drives Culture: The Next 75 Years
2022-03-04 12:00 - 2022-03-05 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Online at typedrivesculture.com on March 4th (12pm to 5pm ET) and 5th (9am to 2pm ET). General Admission is $100 ($85 for Members) and Student Admission is $50 ($45 for Members)
The Type Directors Club (TDC) is pleased to present the 2022 Edition of Type Drives Culture, an international conference that will explore the ways in which people use typography to form and transform creative communities.
In line with our 75th anniversary, this year's conference theme is Type Drives Culture: The Next 75 Years.
This year's event will feature:

20+ Main Program Speakers
5 Type:Seeing Tours
3 Roundtable Discussions on Type & Social Design, Emerging Careers in Type, and The Business of Type

Join us virtually on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5, 2022 for two half-days of guided type tours by city, illuminating presentations and roundtable discussions spanning design disciplines across the planet, featuring speakers from Austria to Zimbabwe. The conference will highlight how designers use typography to pursue a common purpose, establish intergenerational connections, spark and sustain change. How do these stories inspire us in navigating our world, our profession and make what we do relevant to our times?
