Type Directors Club

TDC 2019 Holiday Party at Poster House
2019-12-09 18:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Poster House, New York, NY, United States
Join us for a convivial typographic evening with wine, hors d’oevres, two poster exhibitions with a curator-guided tour, and a silent auction.
There may even be a nerdy typographic game (we’re still working on the details).
Two dynamic exhibitions at Poster House will be open during the party and curator Angelina Lippert will lead a tour of the Ghana movie poster show, Baptized by Beefcake, during the party. Also on view are smart, passionate protest posters from the 2017 Women's March in Boston.
Entry fees and silent auction proceeds will benefit the TDC scholarship fund. Every year the TDC awards scholarships to seven outstanding students of typography.
We are excited to auction works by TDC Medalists:

Ed Benguiat
David Berlow
Louise Fili
Zuzana Licko (Emigré)
Fiona Ross
Paula Scher
Erik Spiekermann

As well as a private gallery tour by Poster House
Looking for a holiday event for your studio or office? Please email Carol Wahler, TDC Executive Director, to discuss group discounts, at director@tdc.org.
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Many thanks to our party sponsors:

Poster House
SYLTBAR (premium prosecco)
Deutsch Family Wines & Spirits
A to A Studio Solutions

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Adobe InDesign 2020 Tune-up
2019-12-07 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.
Here’s a an abbreviated outline of what we plan to cover:
Arrowhead scaling
Borders and Shading
Buttons and forms
CC Libraries
Color Theme
Color Theme tool
Column rules
Find/change
Font UI Changes
Gap tool
Graphics in cells
Gridify
Layout adjustment
New preferences
Page tool
Paragraph overrides
Place and link
Properties panel
Quick Apply
Snippets
Span or split columns
Styles
Table updates
Text frame options (column rules, custom baseline grids, first baseline, auto-size, footnotes)
TOC usage and new features (ignore forced line breaks)
Ungroup to original layers
Variable fonts
If this outline sounds like fun (which it is), then sign up today for this very popular class. Attendance is limited to under 20 students and seats go fast. Bring your laptop with the latest version of InDesign (and Photoshop and Illustrator, if possible) and we’ll see you there.
For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.
Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

Hyperlegible: Challenging Assumptions About Legibility and Accessibility
2019-12-04 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Development of this typeface was part of a larger project taken on by Applied Design – a rigorous research-based evaluation of the Braille Institute name and brand equity, developing a brand positioning to capture the vision and direction of the organization, and creating a new visual identity to connect the institute with a diverse, expanding audience.
Applied Design's singular mission is to create work that has an impact. Founded in 2015, Applied Design specializes in design, planning, strategy, and implementation for a broad range of mission-driven organizations.
This salon feature the creative leaders of Applied Design, who will discuss the ten things that drove the creation of Atkinson Hyperlegible:

Craig Dobie, Founding Creative Director
Brad Scott, Founding Managing Director
Elliott Scott, Creative Director

Applied Design has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
Instagram: @helloapplied

TDC65 Exhibition in Lublin, Poland
2019-11-22 09:00 - 2019-12-27 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Dom Słów-Izba Drukarstwa (House of Words-Print House), Żmigród 1 St., Lublin, 20-110, Poland
The "World's Best Typography" exhibition includes over 280 selections of winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface design competition and communication design competition selected by an international jury of top designers.
The exhibition displays typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, corporate branding, logos, web graphics, film and TV titles, products, and magazines from many countries including the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, South Korea, and others.
This TDC65 exhibition comes to Lublin from its debuts in Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, Lille, Barcelona, Nagoya, Minneapolis, New York, Osaka, Taipei, and Ontario.
The House of Words is an interdisciplinary institution focusing on art and education, and a part of the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre. The mission of the House of Words, which has operated on this Lublin site since 2008, is to emphasize the meaning of spoken and printed word in a cultural and social context, including the importance of “free speech” in the processes of social and political change. House of Words holds events to popularize the traditional book manufacture process (print, graphic design, bookbinding, and typography) to promote reading and literacy.
The exhibition is open to the public, Monday through Friday, November 22 – December 27, 2019.
Getting the press ready for Robert Sawa's poster.
To learn more about the works in this exhibition, read about the poster project from Brazil that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.
Read more about these Judges’ Choices, which are featured in this exhibition:

Tien-Min Liao's Ribaasu typeface design selected by Erin McLaughlin
Rüdiger Schlömer's Typeknitting book selected by Eddie Opara
David Galar's typographic identity system for virtual reality selected by Karin Fong
State, the innovative variable typeface project created by MICA student Potch Auacherdkul, selected by Zipeng Zhu
Orientation typeface created by Sandrine Nugue, selected by Kristyan Sarkis
La Belle et la Bête, the second issue of the art and style magazine Pan & The Dream, created by New York's Rational Beauty, selected by Ian Spalter
The Bacteria Museum identity by SVA student Sunnie Lee, selected by Leo Jung

Type x Graphic Design: Global Typography
2019-11-21 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, Parsons School of Design at The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Digital communication allows us to reach beyond geographic and typographical barriers. What does it mean to practice design and typography when nationalities, languages, and scripts are in constant interaction? This panel discussion brings together designers whose work stretches beyond Latin typography to share their perspectives on designing for a global world.
Global Typography is the second in a three-part Type x Graphic Design series on global typography and design by AIGA NY and the TDC.
Type designer Ksenya Samarskaya (Samarskaya & Partners) with moderate a panel that includes Wael Morcos (Morcos Key), Chris Wu (Wkshps), and Caspar Lam & YuJune Park (Synoptic Office) to discuss the global aspects of typography. The discussion will cover a range of questions, including:

How do these projects begin?
Why is this work important?
How do you respectfully design as a non-native reader?
How do you harmonize between scripts that have different cultural/visual history?

Each panelist will have 15 minutes to present their work followed by a 30-minute moderated discussion.
Event Series: Fresh Dialogue
Type x Graphic Design: Global Typography is part of the Fresh Dialogue event series. These events are critical discussions that focus on current events, issues of cultural relevance and emerging topics in the world of design.
Panel Moderator
Ksenya Samarskaya is a creative practitioner and type designer, following her fascination with the nuances inherent in our visual and literary culture. Samarskaya has judged competitions for Communication Arts, TISDC, TDC, and the SoTA Catalyst Award, and served on the board of AIGA NY. She’s developed curriculum and teaches at Harbour.Space University in Barcelona, as well as fielding courses at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Recent areas of investigation include type in extended reality, and best pedagogical practices for creativity.
Speakers
Wael Morcos is a graphic designer and type designer from Beirut, Lebanon. Upon receiving his BA in Graphic Design from Notre Dame University (Lebanon), he spent three years developing identities and Arabic-Latin bilingual typefaces, in addition to working in print and exhibition design. Wael received his MFA from RISD in 2013, after which he moved to New York and worked with several studios in the city before founding Morcos Key. Wael has been featured in Print Magazine’s 15 under 30, was named a Young Gun by the Art Directors Club and an Ascender by the Type Directors Club.
Chris Wu is a designer and creative director based in New York. He is a partner of the multidisciplinary design practice Wkshps. Previously, he was a principal of the design studio Project Projects, winner of the Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award. Chris has collaborated with clients such as the Guggenheim Museum, M+ Museum, David Zwirner, New Museum, Para Site (Hong Kong), The Met, James Cohan, MoMA, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, SculptureCenter, Asia Art Archive, Modern Media Group (Shanghai), The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, among others. Chris received his Master’s degree in Communications Design at Pratt Institute.

YuJune Park is the co-founder of Synoptic Office and the Associate Director of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design. She served as the Program Director from 2014–2017. Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, the I.D. Annual Design Review, and the Art Director’s Club Awards. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. YuJune has worked for and collaborated with several studios including Base Design, Graphic Thought Facility, and Rockwell Lab for a variety of clients including the Museum of Modern Art, Milk Studios, the Davis Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to teaching, YuJune speaks widely on design education and typography, most recently at Typographics, Northside Festival, and AIGA NY.
Synoptic Office was founded by Caspar Lam and YuJune Park. It is a multidisciplinary design studio operating in the space between design, technology, and education. The studio’s work has been exhibited internationally and recognized by Fast Company Design, iDn, Neshan, Etapes, and It’s Nice That. Synoptic Office was selected to participate in BIO23, the 23rd Biennial of Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia and has exhibited at the Ningbo Museum of Art in China and the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno.
Caspar Lam, the co-founder of Synoptic Office, holds an MFA from Yale and degrees in biology and design from the University of Texas at Austin. His work with cultural and fashion clients includes the Guggenheim Museum, Ohne Titel, and Vogue China. Adobe, AIGA, and ID Design Review have recognized his work. Previously, Caspar led design and digital strategy for Artstor, an Andre Mellon Foundation-funded non-profit to develop digital products related to metadata and publishing for institutions such asHarvard, Cornell, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has been a visiting critic at the Hong Kong Design Institute and served as an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s GSAPP. Caspar regularly writes and speaks about design, most recently at Typographics and the TDC. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design.

Event graphics designed by Beatriz Lozano

Inserting Myself into the Conversation with Ryan Carl
2019-11-19 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
After years of focusing almost exclusively on client work, Ryan began creating self-initiated type, art and design projects. He will discuss his background and process, and walk through his conceptually-driven work that explores themes of identity and being, hope and togetherness. Ryan enjoys the challenge of evoking thought and feeling from concepts heavily rooted in simplicity and clarity.
Ryan Carl is a multidisciplinary designer who has collaborated on projects with Nike, Google, J.Crew, Warby Parker, MoMA and others. He is currently VP of Design at Boxed.com. Ryan received a Master’s degree in Religion from University of Oxford, before becoming a self-taught designer and running his own studio. His academic background has helped form his design process of radical simplicity and his ideals of designing with purpose and meaning.
Follow Ryan on Instagram: @ryancarlstudio

Dichotomies Exhibition
2019-11-15 09:00 - 2020-01-30 16:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Resilience, harmony, and progress are concepts that Adi Stern uses to describe his dual script family, Noam Text. The exhibition features posters by fourteen designers and illustrators that use Noam Text, a Hebrew font that builds on its heritage with the twin tools of honor and progress and a type family that enables the interweaving of an English word or sentence amidst Hebrew text, without any disruption — fluently, calmly.
The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm by appointment only.
Call 212-633-8943 or email director@tdc.org for an appointment.
The exhibition is on view through January 30. See photos of the exhibition here.
Noam Text is available from TypeTogether.

TDC64 Exhibition in Santander, Spain
2019-11-15 09:00 - 2019-12-22 21:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Cantabria Central Library, C/ Ruiz de Alda nº 19, Santander, Cantabria, 39009, Spain
TDC64 is on display at the Cantabria Central Library as the kick-off to the region’s fourth annual TIPOS graphic design competition, which takes place later this year. This free exhibition has previously toured to Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, New York, Antwerp, Ontario, Saigon, and Auckland. TDC64's tour through Spain has included Barcelona, Sabadell, Soria, Madrid, and Amilla, Granada.
As part of TIPOS, this show is sponsored by the Government of Cantabria and the Santander Creative Foundation, the cultural foundation formed by the Santander Council, Cantabria Government, Fundación Botin, Banco Santander, Cantabria University and Menéndez Pelayo International University to promote cultural activity.
The exhibition displays typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, magazines, fanzines, multimedia applications, and animation pieces from many countries including the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.
Exhibition visitors can read about the book that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.

The exhibition features eighteen typeface design winners selected from over 225 entries from 39 countries. Review the list of award-winning typeface designs from 2018 here, and read more about these Judges’ Choices:

Cybu Richli's Russian Revolution poster selected by Nicholas Blechman
IBM Plex selected by Verena Gerlach
Posters created by Burrow, Berlin for an exhibition on movement, selected by Mike Essl
Mirza typeface design by Amir Mahdi Moslehi selected by Sahar Afshar
A Shakespeare/hip-hop play by Barcelona’s İdil Gücüyener and Anna Kabanina, selected by Jon Key
An innovative book designed by XXL Studio in Beijing, selected by Bryony Gomez-Palacio
An open-source CJK typeface, designed by an international team for Google and Adobe, selected by YuJune Park
A Global Alphabet book by Yuliana Gorkorov, selected by Natasha Jen
The typeface specimen created by The New York Times Magazine team for last year’s TDC exhibition, selected by Gemma O’Brien
Lamon typeface by Ditry Lamonov for Art.Lebedev Studio, selected by Dyana Weissman
The "She Said" cover of The New York Times Magazine, selected by Susan Sellers

Gallery hours at the Library:
Mon-Fri from 9 AM – 9 PM
Saturday-Sunday from 11 AM – 8 PM

Adi Stern & Veronika Burian: “Harmony and Converse: The Story of Noam Text ”
2019-11-14 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Everyone is invited to the winter TDC exhibition opening for Dichotomies, which features posters by 14 designers and illustrators and will be on view at the club through January 30.
Join us to welcome type designers Adi Stern and Veronika Burian, who will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Noam Text, a dual-script Latin-Hebrew type family.
Adi Stern will introduce the Hebrew script and share his personal and bumpy path of developing his dual-script (Latin-Hebrew) type family Noam Text. Veronika Burian will provide insights in TypeTogether’s dedication to global typography and the particular challenges of developing Noam Text.
Professor Adi Stern is the current president of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel’s first and leading art and design academy. He is a graphic designer, type designer, and design educator who graduated from Bezalel and received his Master’s in Typeface Design from University of Reading, UK.
Veronika Burian is a product designer and type designer, who received her Master’s in Typeface Design from University of Reading, UK. She is the co-founder of the independent type foundry TypeTogether with José Scaglione, publishing award-winning typefaces and collaborating on tailored typefaces for a variety of clients.
Links:
Instagram: @type_together
Twitter: @typetogether
Facebook: @TypeTogether

Practicing Type in the Age of Screens
2019-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Typeface design and the implementation of typography has never been more exciting. In many cases, type is presented on monitors, tiny and huge electronic visual displays, i.e., screens.
In collaboration with the Type Directors Club, Design Incubation will moderate a panel discussion among design innovators about their design and use of type in today’s changing environment.
Moderators
Liz DeLuna
St John’s University
Dan Wong
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Panelists

Jason Pamental
Javier Viramontes
Nancy Campbell
Ksenya Samarskaya

Design Incubation is a venue for educators and practitioners of Communication Design to discuss design research and practice. Our aim is to create a community where designers can assess creative work through a lens of scholarly activity and academic review.
The organization seeks to foster collaboration, promote development, encourage discourse, cultivate theoretical frameworks, challenge notions, offer criticism, and review processes within the design community. We include designers across experience levels and backgrounds— practicing designers, graduate students, adjunct and tenure-track faculty through to distinguished professors.

TypeThursdayNYC November
2019-11-07 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
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 font is Type Crit‽
Briefly: It’s a critique. Of letterforms. No grades. Plenty of wine.
Verbosely: Type Crit is a group critique of up to four, in-progress projects involving letterform design and/or usage. You can get, give, or simply listen to feedback—your pick! Discussion is moderated by a TypeThursdayNYC dialogue lead—we pride ourselves on fostering a friendly forum for constructive, thoughtful advice that’ll raise the baseline on your letterform game.
QUICK LINK: Sign up to present work for feedback at Type Crit
What’s the program for the evening?
6:00pm – 6:45pm: Check in & Socializing
6:50pm: Opening Statements | Introduction
7:00pm – 8:00pm: Type Critiques
8:00pm: Closing Comments | Outro
8:10pm – 8:45pm: Socializing & End of Event

Type x Graphic Design: Emerging Global Practices
2019-10-28 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Parsons The New School for Design, 63 Fifth Avenue, Room L105, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We explore this question through conversations with recent design graduates Pragun Agarwal (MICA), Ivy Li (VCU), and Beatriz Lozano (University of Michigan). Through their work, these practitioners hailing from international and local backgrounds touch upon difficult issues of translation and reception of visual culture and ideas. What can all designers learn from their experiences?
Emerging Global Practices is the first in a three-part Type x Graphic Design series on global typography and design by AIGA NY and the TDC.
Graphic designer and educator Jason Alejandro will moderate the panel, which includes recent graduates from the Maryland Institute College of Art, University of Michigan, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Each panelist will present their work for 15 minutes, followed by a 30-minute discussion.
Event Series: Fresh Dialogue
Type x Graphic Design: Emerging Global Practices is part of the Fresh Dialogue event series. These events are critical discussions that focus on current events, issues of cultural relevance and emerging topics in the world of design.
Panel Moderator
Jason Alejandro is a graphic designer and educator based between New York City and Philadelphia. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the College of New Jersey. Jason has taught at Rutgers University, Kean University, Lehigh University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was an art director at JK Design and a book designer at Princeton University Press. Jason received an MFA in Graphic Design from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and his work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Association of University Presses, and the Book Industry Guild of New York. He maintains an independent design practice focused on publishing, education, and typography. Select clients include Johnson & Johnson, Princeton University, MIT Press, University of Chicago Press, Verso Books, and Rolling Stone.
Speakers

Pragun Agarwal is a graphic designer from India, and a fresh MFA Graduate in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore. He is originally from New Delhi where he was born and brought up before moving to Ahmedabad to ﬁnish his design education from the National Institute of Design (NID). After his graduation in 2014, he worked at Codesign for three years and successfully completed an internship at Pentagram in the summer of 2018. Pragun has constantly pushed his learning of calligraphy, lettering, and typography by experimenting with different styles, techniques and tools. He has applied his understanding of these mediums in different personal and commercial projects over the last few years.
Yixue (aka Ivy Li) is a designer working between China and the United States. She is interested in how global products/identities are made, transported and consumed, and the inevitable ‘mis-’ in acts of transmission. She stands with things and humans that are misread, mispronounced, misfitted and mistranslated when they traverse social and cultural borders. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently at Wkshps.
Beatriz Lozano is a designer at Sunday Afternoon and former designer in residence at Morcos Key. She holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and is currently exploring custom type, 3D, and motion design. Originally on the path to becoming a mechanical engineer, Beatriz shifted to graphic design as her involvement in immigrant rights activism exposed her to the power of visual communication.

Type x Graphic Design: Emerging Global Practices is organized by AIGA NY and co-sponsored by Type Directors Club in collaboration with the School of Art, Media, and Technology at The New School.
Graphics: Beatriz Lozano

How A Rebrand Happens from A Client Perspective
2019-10-24 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Ritesh will peel back the curtain and detail an inside look at how a rebrand happens from a client perspective. He will also offer advice on how designers, agencies, and in-house teams work more effectively and efficiently together, ultimately leading to more sustainable relationships, revenue, and impact for all parties.
About Ritesh Gupta
Ritesh Gupta recently led a rebrand with Sagmeister & Walsh and R/GA while serving as the Senior Director of Brand & UX at Pet Plate. He began his career at Wieden+Kennedy, working brands like Cooper Hewitt and Equinox, and has since transitioned to working in-house at mission-driven startups.

TDC64 Exhibition at University of Bridgeport
2019-10-24 11:00 - 2020-01-11 16:00 (America/New_York) | University of Bridgeport, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Arnold Bernhard Center,, 84 Iranistan Avenue, Bridgeport, CT, 06604, United States
Every year, the SASD Graphic Design department brings to the Schelfhaudt Gallery an extraordinary display of communication design, typography, and type design. This year is new and different in the best ways — new works by world-class graphic designers, new works by new practitioners of design working in posters, books, identities, interactive, environmental, editorial, and work by graphic design students.
The Schelfhaudt Gallery is open to the public Tuesday–Friday from 11am to 4pm, and on Saturday from noon to 4pm. The TDC64 exhibition will be on view until January 11, but visitors are advised to call ahead to make arrangements to see the exhibition on weekends and during the school's annual winter break (Friday, December 12, 2019 through Saturday, January 11, 2020).
This TDC64 exhibition opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut following the exhibition’s tour to Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, New York, Antwerp, Ontario, Saigon, Auckland and several cities in Spain, including Barcelona, Sabadell, Soria,and Madrid. TDC64 is finishing its tour at the University of Bridgeport, where the works become part of the SASD GD Archives.
The exhibition displays typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, magazines, fanzines, multimedia applications, and animation pieces from many countries including the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.
Exhibition visitors can read about the book that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.

The exhibition features eighteen typeface design winners selected from over 225 entries from 39 countries. Review the list of award-winning typeface designs from 2018 here, and read more about these Judges’ Choices:

Cybu Richli's Russian Revolution poster selected by Nicholas Blechman
IBM Plex selected by Verena Gerlach
Posters created by Burrow, Berlin for an exhibition on movement, selected by Mike Essl
Mirza typeface design by Amir Mahdi Moslehi selected by Sahar Afshar
A Shakespeare/hip-hop play by Barcelona’s İdil Gücüyener and Anna Kabanina, selected by Jon Key
An innovative book designed by XXL Studio in Beijing, selected by Bryony Gomez-Palacio
An open-source CJK typeface, designed by an international team for Google and Adobe, selected by YuJune Park
A Global Alphabet book by Yuliana Gorkorov, selected by Natasha Jen
The typeface specimen created by The New York Times Magazine team for last year’s TDC exhibition, selected by Gemma O’Brien
Lamon typeface by Ditry Lamonov for Art.Lebedev Studio, selected by Dyana Weissman
The "She Said" cover of The New York Times Magazine, selected by Susan Sellers

Letrástica 3 – The Type Festival
2019-10-24 09:00 - 2019-10-26 22:00 (America/New_York) | MIND (México Innovación y Diseño), Av Faro 2350, Verde Valle, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 44550, Mexico
Letrástica Festival is an independent international type and design event that celebrates diversity of the voices and eclecticism of ideas. It is a connecting festival for industry, professionals, students, enthusiasts and society.
This edition includes talks, workshops and exhibitions on an international level as well as demonstrations, professional critiques and an open forum.
See the schedule of events here.
The list of international type designers and creatives who will be speaking and hosting workshops is here.
Register for type, lettering, and calligraphy workshops here.
Registration information here.

DesignThinkers Toronto 2019
2019-10-24 08:00 - 2019-10-25 18:00 (America/New_York) | Sony Center for the Performing Arts, 1 Front Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1B2, Canada
Over its 20-year history, the DesignThinkers Conference has spanned massive changes in the communication design industry. From print to digital, visual identity to brand, websites to user experiences, design has evolved as new trends, technologies and philosophies transform the wider world. Join us at DesignThinkers Toronto this October, put on by RGD, to explore the innovations and disruptions that inform, inspire and influence design, consider its impact and re-imagine its role as we confront fundamental global challenges.
Conference registration includes presentations by industry leaders, a design marketplace, book signings, giveaways, food and drink at our Delegate Party and a multitude of opportunities to network with top design professionals from around the world.
TDC members receive discounts on their registration. Email director@tdc.org for the discount code.
Confirmed Speakers

Sagi Haviv, Partner at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv
Liz Jackson, Founder of The Disabled List
Veronica Fuerte, Founder & CD of Hey Studio
Liza Enebeis & Merijin van Velsen, CDs at Studio Dumbar
Natasha Jen, Partner at Pentagram
Hamish Smyth & Jesse Reed, Partners at Order
Tina Roth Eisenberg, Founder / CEO of CreativeMornings
Adam J. Kurtz, Artist & Author
Maria Giudice, CEO & Founder of Hot Studio
Josh Silverman, Designer, Entrepreneur, Educator
Rebeca Méndez, Professor at UCLA Design, Principal at Rebeca Méndez Studio
Jason Pamental, Typographer, Web Designer & Author

For more information, visit https://designthinkers.com/toronto/

TDC64 Opening in Bridgeport
2019-10-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Bridgeport, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Arnold Bernhard Center,, 84 Iranistan Avenue, Bridgeport, CT, 06604, United States
Everyone is invited to the opening reception for TDC's 64th Annual Competition Exhibition, The World’s Best Typography at the University of Bridgeport.
The reception is open to the public, with a short panel discussion by fontaholics to start off an evening of a typographic feast.
Every year, the SASD Graphic Design department brings to the Schelfhaudt Gallery an extraordinary display of communication design, typography, and type design. This year is new and different in the best ways — new works by world-class graphic designers, new works by new practitioners of design working in posters, books, identities, interactive, environmental, editorial, and work by graphic design students.
The exhibition features over 265 works from the annual TDC Competitions in Communication Design and Typeface Design. The exhibit travels the United States and throughout the world to finish its tour at the University of Bridgeport, where the works become part of the SASD GD Archives.
The TDC64 exhibition will be on view until January 11; please check ahead on weekends and during the annual winter break (Friday, December 12, 2019 through Saturday, January 11, 2020).
Parking is available off of University Avenue or Ingleside Place.

Type Design for Non-Type Designers with Matteo Bologna
2019-10-19 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Get a crash course in designing type from Matteo Bologna, Creative Director of award-winning studio Mucca Design. This (always sold out) 6 hours workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild journey into the super fun world of type design.
This class will teach you the basics of designing and generating a typeface with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only).
In the morning session we will learn the basics of drawing a font, generate the font, and use it in InDesign. In the afternoon, we will add additional letters to the font, learning how to kern them, add diacritics, and produce the combined letters. At the end of the day, we will not have a finished font, but a respectable start and hopefully you’ll be infected with the type making bug.
Requirements

Basic Adobe Illustrator skills are necessary.

You must bring your own laptop with a full or trial version of the font design program Glyphs already installed (download a free 30-day trial). Sorry no Windows, no Fontlab, no Robofont.

No prior experience is required in font design, but some experience with Bézier-based vector drawing tools is useful.

About Matteo Bologna
Matteo Bologna is the principal of Mucca Design, where he also serves as Creative Director. Under his direction, the Mucca Design team has solved numerous design challenges and created uniquely successful work for a wide variety of global companies like Sephora, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, Barnes & Noble, Adobe Systems, Bacardi and Target. With his team he designed the identities for a variety of now classic New York City culinary destinations like Balthazar’s and Brooklyn Fare.
Matteo is also the principal of the new Mucca spin-off type foundry muccaTypo.
Matteo is a past president of the Type Directors Club and former board member of AIGA/NY. He frequently lectures about branding and typography around the world.

New Signs for a New Subway
2019-10-17 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join renowned signage designers Chris Calori and David Vanden-Eynden as they describe their experiences designing the signage for the first four stations of the new Second Avenue subway line in New York City. Their talk includes an introduction to signage basics, a brief history of the subway and its signage, commentary on using New York City Transit graphic standards and working with engineers and architects, and various anecdotes about the project.
Signage design is an intricate, complex process that marries the graphic, architectural, and industrial design disciplines. Chris and David will show how typography with other elements are comprehensively combined to help people navigate the underground world of New York’s newest subway stations. Explore this multifaceted avenue of visual communication; there is far more to it than you would think!

Chris Calori and David Vanden-Eynden, former principals of CVE Design, literally wrote the book on signage design. Their book, Signage and Wayfinding Design: A Complete Guide to Creating Environmental Graphic Design Systems, is the go-to reference on communication in the built environment. They are Fellows of the SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design), and built an award-winning, internationally recognized design office devoted to making people’s lives better with thoughtful, visually-compelling signage and wayfinding programs.
Together or singly, Chris and David have spoken at professional events, taught at notable universities, judged design competitions, and are current or former members of several design organizations. Their firm’s work has received numerous awards and has been extensively published worldwide. Both are graduates of The Ohio State University and are currently principals of Entro | CVE Design.
Photography: Charles Aydlett

Photoshop and Illustrator Essentials with Scott Citron
2019-10-11 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Unless you specialize in image creation or editing, the majority of graphic designers have only a limited knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. And when it comes to bringing PSD or AI files into InDesign, most know even less!
If this sounds like you, then you’re invited to spend one fun (and fact)-filled day with designer Scott Citron, learning the essential techniques of these powerful programs. In the morning session Scott will cover Photoshop essential concepts and techniques such as:

How to make better selections
Masking basics and beyond
Non-destructive workflows
Adobe Camera Raw: the Photoshop plug-in you’re not using but should
Setting type with Photoshop
The power of layer comps
Working smart with Smart Objects
Understanding file formats: when to use what
Saving for web
Color correction secrets and tips
Mastering the pen tool and when to use it
Importing PSDs to InDesign

In the afternoon, the class will focus on essential Illustrator concepts such as:

Layer basic and advanced techniques
Pen tool refresher
Opacity masking
Symbols and when to use them
New tools: The blob brush, curved pen tool, Shape Builder, and the Width tool
Clipping and compound paths
Creating and using specialty brushes
Illustrator to Photoshop to InDesign round-tripping
The Appearance Panel: Illustrator’s most powerful feature you’re probably not using (or understanding)
Non-destructive workflow strategies
New type setting tools and techniques
Importing AIs into InDesign

Today the design business is more competitive than ever. We guarantee this class will sharpen your Photoshop and Illustrator skills, and bring you up to date with two of the biggest industry standards. These classes fill up fast and seats are limited, so act now so as not to be left out!
Scott Citron is an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor in InDesign, InCopy, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and Muse. When not working as a designer, he has taught InDesign at Parsons, The New School, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, NYU, and Fashion Institute (FIT). For over ten years he ran the NY chapter of the InDesign User Group, and from 2008-2012 served on the board of the Type Directors Club.

TDC64 Exhibition at Estación Diseño in Granada, Spain
2019-10-04 08:00 - 2019-10-10 17:00 (America/New_York) | Estación Diseño, Calle Benjamín Franklin, 1,, Armilla, Grenada, 18100, Spain
This TDC64 exhibition opens in Grenada following the exhibition’s tour to Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, New York, Antwerp, Ontario, Saigon, and Auckland. TDC64's tour through Spain has included Barcelona, Sabadell, Soria,and Madrid. Read about AAD's history with Type Directors Club exhibitions and watch the association's wonderful video tribute here.
On October 10, the final day of the exhibition, Estación Diseño and AAD invite everyone to join in, tour the exhibit, and take part in the closing ceremony.
The exhibition displays typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, magazines, fanzines, multimedia applications, and animation pieces from many countries including the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.
Exhibition visitors can read about the book that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.

The exhibition features eighteen typeface design winners selected from over 225 entries from 39 countries. Review the list of award-winning typeface designs from 2018 here, and read more about these Judges’ Choices:

Cybu Richli's Russian Revolution poster selected by Nicholas Blechman
IBM Plex selected by Verena Gerlach
Posters created by Burrow, Berlin for an exhibition on movement, selected by Mike Essl
Mirza typeface design by Amir Mahdi Moslehi selected by Sahar Afshar
A Shakespeare/hip-hop play by Barcelona’s İdil Gücüyener and Anna Kabanina, selected by Jon Key
An innovative book designed by XXL Studio in Beijing, selected by Bryony Gomez-Palacio
An open-source CJK typeface, designed by an international team for Google and Adobe, selected by YuJune Park
A Global Alphabet book by Yuliana Gorkorov, selected by Natasha Jen
The typeface specimen created by The New York Times Magazine team for last year’s TDC exhibition, selected by Gemma O’Brien
Lamon typeface by Ditry Lamonov for Art.Lebedev Studio, selected by Dyana Weissman
The "She Said" cover of The New York Times Magazine, selected by Susan Sellers

TypeThursday NYC
2019-10-03 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States

TDC65 Exhibition at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario
2019-10-01 08:30 - 2019-11-01 22:00 (America/New_York) | Sheridan College, Trafalgar Library, 1430 Trafalgar Road, C-Wing, Oakville, Ontario, L6H 2L1, Canada
From October 1 to November 1, 2019, Sheridan College’s Trafalgar campus in Oakville is presenting The World’s Best Typography exhibition, featuring the winning work of the Type Director Club’s 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competitions.
The exhibition, sponsored by Sheridan College and the Sheridan Typographic Hub, is on view on campus until 10:00pm daily in the Sheridan Library Learning Commons — easy driving distance from Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo.
This year’s annual juried exhibition includes hundreds of works that features typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, corporate branding, logos, web graphics, film and TV titles, products, and magazines.
Professional and student communications design work from many countries will be on display, including the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.
Visitors will have an opportunity to experience the works up close, pick up the books, examine the exquisite bookbinding, touch the packaging, and look through the printed magazines.
This event is free and open to the public seven days a week. Parking at Sheridan is free on weekends.
Please contact Renée Alleyn (renee.allen@sheridancollege.ca) with any questions.
Read about the poster project from Brazil that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.
Read more about these Judges’ Choices, which are featured in this exhibition:

Tien-Min Liao's Ribaasu typeface design selected by Erin McLaughlin
Rüdiger Schlömer's Typeknitting book selected by Eddie Opara
David Galar's typographic identity system for virtual reality selected by Karin Fong
State, the innovative variable typeface project created by MICA student Potch Auacherdkul, selected by Zipeng Zhu
Orientation typeface created by Sandrine Nugue, selected by Kristyan Sarkis
La Belle et la Bête, the second issue of the art and style magazine Pan & The Dream, created by New York's Rational Beauty, selected by Ian Spalter

Debbie Millman: Look Both Ways
2019-09-26 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join designer, author, educator, and curator Debbie Millman and two artists from the New York typographic exhibition Look Both Ways, on view at the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery through September 21, for a behind-the-scenes look at how a curator produces such a lively, thought-provoking exhibition.
Exhibition installation, featuring work by Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez
Edel Rodriguez, who created a site-specific installation for the show and Cey Adams, celebrated OG street artist and designer, will join Debbie in a roundtable that will explore how an exhibition theme is brought to life, how artists were selected, and how exhibition design puts it all into context.
Work by hip-hop graphic designer Cey Adams
About Debbie Millman
Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters.

Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Greenwood Heights and Sunset Park
2019-09-22 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Brooklyn - To Be Announced, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Join us to explore the adjacent neighborhoods of Greenwood Heights and Sunset Park that straddle Fourth Avenue and butt up against Gowanus Bay and the Upper Bay of New York Harbor. These are working class and immigrant neighborhoods that—fingers crossed—have not yet been gentrified.
In both neighborhoods, we will show you a mix of vernacular lettering (with Mexican influence), classical roman capitals and 19th century grotesques for government institutions, a small bit of Art Deco, and some 1950s scripts. We will take a small detour into Green-Wood Cemetery (established 1838), one of the historically most important cemeteries in the United States, and we might finish up at a letterpress shop.
Paul Shaw has conducted regular walking tours of lettering in New York City since 2005 for the Type Directors Club and other organizations. He has also led similar tours of Boston, Buffalo, and Atlanta for SoTA (the Society of Typographic Aficionados).
Paul is the author of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System, which has been republished by The MIT Press this year. He has been a calligrapher for over 40 years and has designed 18 typefaces. He is the principal of Paul Shaw / Letter Design and teaches calligraphy at Parsons School of Design and the history of typography at the School of Visual Arts.
Participants will be notified of the meeting point in Brooklyn prior to the event. (Note: The Type Directors Club in Manhattan is not the starting point for this walk!)

Type@Cooper 2019 Exhibition
2019-09-20 09:00 - 2019-11-01 16:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
September 20 – November 1, 2019. The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm by appointment only.
Call 212-633-8943 or email director@tdc.org for an appointment.
This exhibition celebrates the creative output of the 2019 class of the Type@Cooper Extended Program, which offers a Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design through the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club. Participants have been guided by top industry professionals at Cooper Union’s New York City campus on key typeface design principles — technique, aesthetics, expression, history, and theory.
Now you can see the results from this year’s group of designers…work by the following typeface designers:

Potch Auacherdkul
James Blevins
HanJu Chou
Michelle Deng
Jorge Galán
Cris R. Hernández
You Lu
Nic Roca
Benjamin Tuttle
Rory Simms
Liam Spradlin
Delaney Weber

Congratulations to all the graduates!
Take a look at the exhibition and close-ups of the work on our Flickr site here.

Type Thursday NYC
2019-09-05 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States

TDC65 and 2018 Ascenders Exhibitions at ATypI in Tokyo
2019-09-04 08:00 - 2019-09-07 17:00 (America/New_York) | Miraikan Museum, 2 Chome-3-3-6 Aomi, Koto City, Tokyo, 135-0064, Japan
You’re invited to a celebration of all things typographic! Join us September 4–7 in Tokyo for ATypI 2019, the sixty-third annual conference of the non-profit Association Typographique Internationale. Four type-filled days and nights in this enthralling city will engage, entertain, and inspire you.

Wednesday, 4 September: Pre-conference optional workshops and associated events.
Thursday–Saturday, September 5–7: The main conference programme, exhibitions, demonstrations, and special events.

ATypI Tokyo will bring together typeface designers, publishers, developers, and educators from Japan and the global typographic community. Tokyo is the perfect environment for a global gathering: it is a crucible of hypermodernity and tradition, globalism and regionalism. ATypI is a global network that spans design professions, company sizes, and geographic areas of activity.
ATypI 2019 will take place at the Miraikan Museum in Tokyo, a space dedicated to emerging science and innovation. We are particularly pleased to announce that we will be presenting the following award-winning work at the museum:

TDC65 Communications Design and Typeface Design competitions
Exhibition featuring work by the 2018 Ascenders.

TDC members attending ATypI 2019 are entitled to receive discounts on their registration fees. Email Carol Wahler director@tdc.org for the membership discount code.

Juan Carlos Pagan at TypeCon (+ Facebook Analog Research Lab!)
2019-08-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
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 talk, grab a squeegee and print the final layer on a design created just for this special pop-up! It's all happening right here!

Juan Carlos Pagan is a New York-based designer, typographer, and creative director, who currently serves on the board of Type Directors Club. He is currently the founding partner and Executive Creative Director of Sunday Afternoon. He previously held Head of Design and Creative Director positions at 72andSunny NY, Deutsch NY, and DDB NY.
Juan has been honored for his work by the Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, The ADC, One Show, Graphis, Cannes Lions, Clios, Fast Company, and Print Magazine among others. His client list includes brands such as Nike, Google, New York Times, ESPN, Pinterest, Smirnoff, and Under Armour. In 2013 Juan received the prestigious Art Directors Club Young Guns award.
That same year, he was named the top of Adweek’s Talent 100 and was subsequently nominated for Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists 20 Under 30. In 2018, he received the Type Directors Club Ascenders Award, which recognizes the work of designers who are 35 years of age and under for their remarkable achievement in design, typography, type design, and lettering.
Juan received his BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2006 and completed his postgraduate studies in typeface design at The Cooper Union in 2011.
Facebook Analog Research Lab: Read all about the Lab's work and mission here.

TypeCon 2019
2019-08-28 08:00 - 2019-09-01 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
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 for other venues and special event details that will be added.
We will be showing all of the award-winning Typeface Designs in a special exhibition alongside the TDC65 Communication Design winners. Stop by to say hello! We will also be hosting a special evening with Juan Carlos Pagan on August 29 that you will not want to miss.
Early bird pricing ends July 14. Register here.
TDC Members attending TypeCon 2019 receive 20% off their registration. Email Carol Wahler director@tdc.org for the membership discount code.
TypeCon events:
Wednesday, August 28th

Pre-conference Workshops
Kickoff Event

Thursday, August 29th

Pre-conference Workshops
Type & Design Education Forum (View schedule)
TDC Presentation & Reception with Juan Carlos Pagan

Friday, August 30th

Main Conference Program (View schedule)
Type Gallery Exhibits
SOTA Marketplace
SOTA Silent Auction Viewing & Bidding
Keynote Presentation
Catalyst Award Presentation: Ruggero Magrì
SOTA Spacebar Party

Saturday, August 31st

Main Conference Program (View schedule)
Type Gallery Exhibits
SOTA Marketplace
SOTA Silent Auction Viewing & Bidding
Keynote Presentation
SOTA’s Night of Type
SOTA Typography Award Presentation
SOTA Silent Auction Wind Up

Sunday, September 1st

Main Conference Program (View schedule)
Type Gallery Exhibits
SOTA Marketplace
Type Crit
Type Walk
Closing Event
