Type Directors Club

TDC65 at ECV and ENSA in Nantes, France
2020-03-04 13:00 - 2020-03-28 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes, 6 quai François Mitterrand, Nantes, 44000, France
Organized by ECV Nantes in partnership with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes (ENSA), the Type Directors Club 65 exhibition will take place from Wednesday March 4 to Saturday March 28, 2020 at Galerie Loire, 6 quai François Mitterrand.
TDC 65: a traveling exhibition
Founded in 1946, the Type Directors Club was founded in New York to promote the art of typography and the quality of creation of typographic design. Today, TDC organizes an annual competition to recognize the best typographic font design and graphic design in communication media, such as posters, book covers, magazines, packaging, signage, film credits, and web design. Since its founding, TDC has grown, creating an international network known for its professionalism and outreach to the world. ECV Nantes is proud to play its role in TDC's international outreach. For the past fifteen years, the ECV has hosted TDC traveling exhibitions, which arrive in a suitcase containing a wide range of items selected each year by a professional jury, representing the best of contemporary graphic and typographic creations.
ECV Nantes x TDC, a visual collaboration
Each year, students in the first-year Masters in Graphic Design program at ECV Nantes are invited to design the visual identity for the exhibition as a group project. A jury selected the project of Teddy Pouteau, Morgan Texier and Peio Ospital for the visual identity of the TDC 65 in Nantes. Visitors can admire their work on the façade of the Loire Gallery throughout the exhibition.
TDC65 visual identity project of Teddy Pouteau, Morgan Texier, and Peio Ospital on the gallery facade.
As part of this annual Nantes graphic arts celebration, the TDC exhibition is an opportunity for students and the public in Nantes to see the work of established agencies and students from graphic design and visual communication schools around the world.
Tours
To take full advantage of the exhibition, the public is invite to attend guided and commented tours:

Saturday March 7 at 3 p.m. with Margaux Meunier Le Cann and Antonin Boiveau, founders of Antonin + Margaux, a communications agency specializing in visual identity.
Saturday March 21 at 3 p.m. with Thierry Fétiveau, Freelance graphic and typographic designer.

Hours
TDC 65 exhibition is on view from Wednesday March 4 to Saturday March 28, 2020 at the Galerie Loire, 6 quai François Mitterand - Nantes. The exhibition is free to the public and can be seen every day, except Sunday, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

TDC65 Exhibition in Auckland
2020-03-04 10:00 - 2020-03-28 17:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | ST PAUL St Gallery Two, 40 Saint Paul Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
The Type Directors Club is pleased to announce that its World’s Best Typography exhibition is coming to Auckland, New Zealand for the second time, courtesy of award-winning creative agency Osborne Shiwan and Portfolio Recruitment.
Direct from its New York showing, TDC65 Auckland will showcase an exciting and culturally diverse range of award-winning work chosen by some of the design industry’s most recognised mentors, creative innovators and thought-leaders. The exhibition will be on display at Auckland University of Technology’s St Paul St Gallery Two from March 4 to 28.
Lloyd Osborne, Creative Director at Osborne Shiwan, thinks this is the best reflection of current typographic excellence at an international level. “This competition received thousands of submissions that were narrowed to just 253 examples from over 38 countries. There is a wealth of diversity on show, through language, culture, and type design. As alumni, we are proud to bring TDC65 to AUT.”
As well as communication design, TDC65 Auckland will showcase typefaces chosen from a record 350 submissions, including ‘Serif UI’ by the Apple Design Team and ‘Heldane’ by New Zealand based Kris Sowersby at Klim.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10am – 5pm.
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 TDC65 Auckland:

Tien-Min Liao's Ribaasu typeface design
Rüdiger Schlömer's Typeknitting book
David Galar's typographic identity system for virtual reality
State, the innovative variable typeface project created by MICA student Potch Auacherdkul
Orientation typeface created by Sandrine Nugue
La Belle et la Bête, the second issue of the art and style magazine Pan & The Dream, created by New York's Rational Beauty
The Bacteria Museum identity by SVA student Sunnie Lee
Crochet typeface by You Lu.

About Osborne Shiwan
Founded in 2006, Osborne Shiwan is an Auckland-based creative agency specialising in strategic thinking and art direction. Creative Directors Lloyd Osborne and Shabnam Shiwan have collaborated with some of New Zealand’s most influential brands and their work has been recognised internationally within the areas of commerce, arts and culture.

TDC65 Exhibition at FMU in Florence, South Carolina
2020-02-25 08:00 - 2020-03-27 17:00 (America/New_York) | Francis Marion University, Hyman Fine Arts Center, Heyward Drive, Florence, SC, 29506, United States
Originally debuted in New York City, The World’s Best Typography: The 65th Annual Exhibition of the Type Directors Club (TDC65) is a travelling exhibit that features communication design and selections from the twenty-first annual typeface design competition hosted by the Type Directors Club in 2019.
Hosted by the Visual Arts program at Francis Marion University, the exhibition displays typography in a wide range of books, posters, corporate branding, logos, web graphics, film and TV titles, products, and magazines from around the world. This exhibition arrives at FMU after its showings in Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, Lille, Barcelona, Nagoya, Minneapolis, Osaka, Taipei, and cities in Canada and Poland.
TDC65 will be on display in Florence from February 25-March 27, 2020 in the Adele Kassab Gallery of the Peter D. Hyman Fine Arts Center. Visiting hours are from Mondays-Fridays from 8 am to 5 pm.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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
Crochet typeface by You Lu, selected by Tobias Frere-Jones.

TDC65 Exhibition in Manila
2020-02-22 08:00 - 2020-03-27 19:00 (America/New_York) | Ateneo De Manila University, University Road, Quezon City, Metro Manila, 1108, Philippines
Originally debuted in New York City, The World’s Best Typography: The 65th Annual Exhibition of the Type Directors Club (TDC65) is a travelling exhibit that features communication design and selections from the twenty-first annual typeface design competition hosted by the Type Directors Club in 2019.
Hosted by Areté, the creativity and innovation hub of Ateneo De Manila University, the exhibition displays typography in a wide range of books, posters, corporate branding, logos, web graphics, film and TV titles, products, and magazines from around the world. This exhibition arrives in Manila after its showings in Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, Lille, Barcelona, Nagoya, Minneapolis, Osaka, Taipei, and Ontario.
TDC65 will be on display in Manila, Philippines for a limited run, from February 22-March 27, 2020 in the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing of the university. Visiting hours are from Mondays-Fridays from 8 am to 7 pm, and on Saturday from 9 am to 5pm.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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
Crochet typeface by You Lu, selected by Tobias Frere-Jones.

She Designs Books Celebrates Two Years
2020-02-05 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
She Designs Books will be celebrating two years of recognizing women designers working in book publishing with a design panel and exhibition at Type Directors Club.
Art directors and book cover designers, Catherine Casalino, Cassie Gonzales, and Julianna Lee will present their book covers, discuss their design process, and discuss how designers navigate the cover-approval process.
The She Designs Books exhibition, on view through March, features posters of the best-loved covers featured on the She Designs Books Instagram feed over the last two years.
The Speakers:
Catherine Casalino is the principal and creative director of Casalino Design Inc, an independent design company in New York City focusing on print, book design, and branding. Casalino Design Inc’s clients include Penguin Random House, A+E Networks, Simon & Schuster, IBM, W. W. Norton, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, Epic Media, and The New York Times. Catherine has worked in-house at Grand Central Publishing, Random House, and Simon & Schuster as an art director and designer, and she began her career at Rodrigo Corral Design.
Cassie Gonzales is an Associate Designer at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers and Roaring Brook Press at Macmillan Children’s, designing middle grade and young adult novels (with the occasional picture book thrown in). Prior to her time at Macmillan, she worked at Little Brown Books for Young Readers, and held internships at HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Macmillan in both adult and children’s design departments. She is a semi-recent graduate of Pratt Institute with a BFA in Graphic Design, a regular at the Type Directors Club Type Thursdays, and was a judge for the New York Book Show in children's book design last year.
Julianna Lee is currently Art Director at Little, Brown and Company, where she has worked for 15 years. She graduated from Barnard College with a Sociology major and also enrolled in Parsons School of Design AAS program. Her work has been recognized by the AIGA 50/50 Books and Print Design.
About She Designs Books
She Designs Books was founded by Nicole Caputo and Anne Twomey in January 2018 and has over 7,000 followers on Instagram. Follow them!
Instagram: @shedesignsbooks
Twitter: @shedesignsbooks
Facebook: @shedesignsbooks
Sponsor:

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"She Designs Books" Exhibition at TDC
2020-02-05 09:00 - 2020-06-06 16:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Love beautiful book covers? See some of the best in the latest exhibit at Type Directors Club through March 26.
She Designs Books celebrates two years of recognizing women designers working in book publishing with a special exhibition at Type Directors Club.
Founded by Anne Twomey and Nicole Caputo, the organization promotes, supports, and celebrates female designers creating memorable book covers.
The She Designs Books Celebrates 2 Years! exhibition, on view through March 31, features books and posters of the best-loved covers featured on the She Designs Books Instagram feed over the last two years.
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.
See photos of the exhibition here.
This show features work by 22 designers:
Robin Biradello
Nicole Caputo
Catherine Casalino
Donna Cheng
Cassie Gonzalez
Kimberly Glyder
Olga Grlic
Grace Han
Janet Hansen
Jan Heuer
Linda Huang
Laywan Kwan
Marcie Lawrence
Juliana Lee
Emily Mahon
Anna Morrison
Mumtaz Mustafa
Joanna O’Neill
June Park
Allison Saltzman
Nicole Seeback
Anne Twomey
Rachel Wiley
To see more beautiful work, follow She Designs Books:
Instagram: @shedesignsbooks
Facebook @shedesignsbooks
Twitter @shedesignsbooks
Sponsor: A2A Studio Solutions

“StencilMania”: Stencil Lettering & Type Workshop with Laura Meseguer
2020-02-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
This workshop offers participants an opportunity to spend a day learning from and creating under the guidance of award-winning Barcelona typeface designer Laura Meseguer.
Goals

To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience and the design of custom types, which all together can be understood as "type design as a tool for designers."

Required Materials

Drawing materials: pencil, white pencil and rubber
Supports: white paper, graph paper, onion paper, acetate semi-rigid, black cardboard.
Tools: Scalpel cutters, scissors, rulers, cutting surfaces.
Other: Laptop (in case you want to go digital), photocopy machine, laser cut printer.

Exercise
We will design typographic characters to label a word, a message, or a logo that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately, as a poster or in a totebag. It can be solved manually and based on photocopies or with digital drawing.
Methodology
All participants will be expected to do preliminary research about stencil sentences or words found in the streets or in articles or catalogs. It will be important to have good frontal photos and bring the prints to the classroom. These will serve as starting point for the day's project. From this material, we will extract the alphabets to work on and define the modules or parts, adapting the work process to each style.
Schedule (8 hours)
8:30 am - 9:00 am: Introduction
9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Drawing work
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch break
1:30 pm:-4:00 pm: Drawing work and composition
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Presentation and exhibition
Participants
Participants will work in groups of 2 people, and do projects just by hand and photocopies, or by hand and computer – if so, the attendees need to be skilled in vector drawing design.
About Laura Meseguer
Laura Meseguer is an acclaimed freelance graphic and type designer based in Barcelona, who is part of the judging panel for our typeface design competition (TDC66). Her studio works for international and domestic clients, but she also works on self-initiated projects. As a typographer and type designer, she is an expert in carrying out custom lettering and type design for branding and publishing.
Laura designs and produce typefaces distributed through her own digital type foundry Type-Ø-Tones. She is the author of TypoMag. Typography in Magazines, published by IndexBook. She is also involved with Alphabettes.org, a showcase for work and research on lettering, typography, and type design by women and has served a board member of the ATypI since 2017. Premio Gràffica 2018.
Laura often runs creative workshops (like this one) and teaches typography at the Master’s Degree in Editorial Design at Elisava and type design and lettering at Tipo.g, Typography School of Barcelona, which she founded.
Instagram: @laurameseguer
Twitter: @laurameseguer

TDC Meet the Judges Post-Holiday Party
2020-01-23 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Parsons School of Design, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, Room 1202, 55 West 13 Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Come meet the judges of the TDC Communication Design and Type Design competitions and mingle with fellow type and design enthusiasts.
Hosted by the competition chairs, Liz DeLuna, Douglas Riccardi and Juan Villanueva and featuring your judges:

Maria Doreuli, Contrast Foundry
Greg Gazdowicz, Commercial Type
Laura Meseguer, Type-O-Tones
Wael Morcos, Morcos Key
Rebecca Gimenez, IA Collaborative
Min Lew, Base Design
Alex Lin, Studio Lin
Silas Munro, Poly-Mode
Dori Tunstall, OCAD University
Eva Wendel, Neue Gestaltung
Helen Yentus, Riverhead Books

Read more about each judge here.
We’ll be asking questions like:

What’s the value of entering a competition in 2020?
What were the hottest trends from the past decade?
What would you like to see more of from the TDC?
Why is winter in New York City so damn long?

Find a warm place among type nerds and come beat the winter blues at Parsons Theresa Lang Auditorium, and thanks to our friends at Parsons.
Schedule
6:30 Doors open & check-in
7:00 Event Begins
8:00 Event reception
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Typophiles Annual Holiday Luncheon with Maxim Zhukov
2019-12-18 12:15 - 14:15 (America/New_York) | The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY, 10022, United States
Maxim Zhukov, a longtime member and supporter of Type Directors Club, is the featured speaker and will talk about his prolific and influential career in book design.
Tickets to the annual luncheon are $45 in advance and $49 at the door.
? If you attend, be sure to bring a wrapped book of interest to Typophiles to join in the group's traditional Holiday Grab Bag.

Maxim will discuss his love affair with type, and his persistent efforts to bring Russia back to the global typographic marketplace: exhibitions, competitions and exchanges he arranged for—even in the midst of the Cold War. He will talk about the books he designed, comment on the formatting tools he used, their typography and layout, typefaces, printing and binding. Maxim will also chronicle his efforts to select and have translated and published some of the best books on type and typography, including a few he himself wrote, edited, typeset, and laid out. Finally, he will show some of Cyrillic typefaces he helped to develop for many foundries and designers worldwide.
Widely regarded as a leading authority on Cyrillic type design today, Maxim Zhukov enjoyed a prolific and influential career in book design in Russia prior to 1977, when he began his 30-year tenure as the Typographic Coordinator at the UN in New York City. In his talk he will focus on his book design and art direction, which has been credited with introducing page layout grids and International Style to Soviet graphic design.

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
