Type Directors Club

Angelina Lippert: Poster House New York
2020-06-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join Poster House Chief Curator, Angelina Lippert, as she talks about the history of the PSA (Public Service Announcement) poster. From Tuberculosis to Loose Lips Sink Ships, Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires to Silence = Death, she'll explore a wide array of topics and methods that have been used to disseminate information to the public for the greater good. She'll start her talk with a brief introduction to Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the art and history of the poster.
Angelina holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in theology and art history from Smith College. Prior to working at Poster House, Angelina served ten years as a poster specialist at a leading New York City leading auction house. She has produced dozens of auction catalogs and articles, as well as The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA and The Cooper Union. She is a member of AAM, AAMC, AIGA, and is on the Board of Directors for The Ephemera Society of America. Her research interests include German Expressionism, Soviet film posters, and the history of food and wine in advertising.
About Poster House
Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters. Through exhibitions, events, and publications, the museum presents a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s to their present-day use. Poster House takes its mission from the medium, aiming to engage and educate all audiences as it investigates large-format graphic design and its public impact.
Poster House was founded in 2015 with an eye towards filling a long-acknowledged gap in the New York cultural landscape. While there are several poster museums around the world, New York, with its long relationship with advertising and design, did not have such a dedicated public institution. After several years of planning and construction, Poster House opened its doors on June 20, 2019.

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Ross MacDonald: Brightwork Press
2020-06-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join author, illustrator, and designer Ross MacDonald as we tour his Brightwork Press studio and letterpress shop in Connecticut. On view will be Ross’ extensive collection of wood type, dating back to the some of the earliest cut by hand, as well as examples of period props that he has made, printed, and designed for over 90 movies and television series.
For many years, Ross MacDonald has been a contributor to periodicals like Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, and Rolling Stone, creating illustrations and writing humor pieces.
Yet all the while he has led a secret double life designing and fabricating props for over 90 movies and television series. He has made everything from the book Bradley Cooper’s character throws out the window in Silver Linings Playbook, to the titular Book of Secrets for the second National Treasure movie; Jennifer Lawrence’s mop patents for Joy; baby’s favorite book in Baby’s Day Out; Nucky Thompson’s passport and Arnold Rothstein’s calling card for Boardwalk Empire; the morgue toe-tags in The Knick; the Pawnee town charter for Parks and Recreation; the Red Apple Tobacco tin in Tarantino’s Hateful Eight; Versace’s book in the second season of American Crime Story, period newspapers and Hitler stamps for The Plot Against America, and thousands of other props.

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Ross MacDonald has authored and illustrated four children’s books, as well as the adult humor books In and Out with Dick and Jane, (with co-author James Victore) and What Would Jesus Craft?
Born and raised in the backwoods of Canada, he lived for many years in New York City before finally washing up on the bucolic shores of Connecticut.
See photos of his 2018 exhibition at Type Directors Club here.

Able Parris: Typographic Collage Workshop
2020-06-07 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join Able Parris as he leads a hands-on workshop to explore cut paper collage using typographic sources. Whether you are looking for new approaches to your design practice, or would like to create original works of art, this workshop will guide you in the destruction and reclamation of various text-based imagery.
Able Parris is a designer, creative director, artist, and founder of WTF.studio. He has 15+ years experience leading teams to design global platforms, invent products, and launch brands. His collages have shown nationally, and have been published internationally. He designed the open-source intersectional symbol for equality, publishes an art zine called LookBook.wtf, and releases electronic music under the moniker Kamuter.This workshop is open to anyone, beginners and veterans, designers, or artists. Items you will need:

Magazines, books, or newspaper to cut up

Nice-to-have:

Plain paper
Scissors
Exacto knife
Cutting mat (or old book cover)
Glue stick
Tape
Straight edge
Something to protect your table surface

Bonus items:

Letraset
Vinyl alphabet stickers

Able online:

WTF.studio
Twitter.com/ableparris
Instagram.com/ableparris
Instagram.com/wtf.able

About This Zoom Workshop
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11:00pm New York (EST)
4:00pm London (BST)
5:00pm Berlin/Madrid/Milan/Europe (CEST)
7:00pm Jerusalem (GST)
11:00pm Seoul/Manila
12:00pm Tokyo

Anne Quito: On Writing "Mag Men" with Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser
2020-05-28 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Anne Quito will talk about her process of writing and editing, Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines, a book about the glory days of magazine design as told by graphic design legends Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard. For this special live event, Walter Bernard will join Anne.

For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders’ perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century. The authors look back on and analyze some of their most important and compelling projects, from the creation of New York magazine to redesigns of such publications as Time, Fortune, Paris Match, and The Nation, explaining how their designs complemented a story and shaped the visual identity of a magazine.
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12:00pm Chicago/Minneapolis
1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
Spread from Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines
Anne Quito is a journalist and design critic based in New York City. A staff reporter at Quartz, her coverage underscores the design angle of politics and business news. She is the recipient of the inaugural Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary. A story she co-wrote about Emmanuel Macron’s symbolic presidential portrait garnered a Malofiej26 medal.
Anne graduated from Georgetown University with a master’s degree in Visual Culture in 2009 and is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts Design Criticism MFA where she wrote a thesis on the nation branding of the world's newest nation, South Sudan. Her writing also appears on The Atlantic, Works That Work, Metropolis, Architecture Digest Pro, Eye on Design, 99U, Designers and Books, Core77, and Intern magazine. She is currently working on Milton Glaser’s “last book.”

Armin Vit: A Real-Time Journey Through My .AI Files
2020-05-21 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Armin Vit will share his screen and take us through his logo design exploration process in Adobe Illustrator, demonstrating how he goes from crappy idea to less crappy idea to showable idea.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin Vit is a graphic designer and writer now living in Bloomington, Indiana. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration, a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Although he has written for most well-known design publications, Armin is most recognized for his writing on the blogs that make up the UnderConsideration online network—particularly Brand New, the popular blog for opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Along with his wife and partner, Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Armin has co-authored various books for publishers and for UnderConsideration and has organized multiple design events, including the annual Brand New Conference and bi-monthly Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness speaker series. Previously, Armin worked at the New York office of Pentagram and his professional experience stretches back to 1999. Since then he has become a popular speaker and juror for events and competitions around the world. When not working, he is either out for a run or washing the dishes.
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Online Archive Virtual Happy Hour with Letterform Archive
2020-05-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
On April 7, when Letterform Archive launched its Online Archive​, a free online resource to all who love letters, no one suspected that it would break the internet!
After one month, two server crashes, and over 200,000 hits, Online Archive continues to grow into one of the most comprehensive graphic design archives to focus on lettering and typography, and a powerful resource for students and professional designers.
On Tuesday, May 19, Type Directors Club invites the global community to celebrate this achievement with a special New York - San Francisco Zoom event where the team behind the Online Archive – ​Rob Saunders​, founder; ​Kate Long​, librarian; and ​Stephen Coles​, associate curator and editorial director – will present highlights from the nearly 1,500 objects and 9,000 hi-fi images housed online.
Rob Saunders, Kate Long, and Stephen Coles
You'll also have a chance to meet the Online Archive design/development team, including Murray Grigo-McMahon, the database prodigy behind the project, along with Jon Sueda and chris hamamoto who created the front-end design for the site.
Check out the Online Archive and come ready to ask them your questions!
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The start time for the live event is:
12:00pm San Francisco/LA/Seattle (PST)
2:00pm Chicago/Toronto (CST)
3:00pm New York (EST)
8:00pm London (BST)
9:00pm Paris/Madrid/Europe (CEST)
11:00pm Dubai (GST)
3:00am Seoul/Manila
4:00am Tokyo
7:00am Auckland

Speakers
Rob Saunders, Executive Director, Curator, and Publisher​, is a designer, teacher, publisher, and management consultant, who has collected graphic design and letterforms for over 40 years. Rob began his career teaching at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University, while serving freelance clients and agencies, before founding a book publishing enterprise that included Alphabet Press (graphic design), Picture Book Studio (children’s books), and Rabbit Ears Books (book/audio packages), which was eventually acquired by Simon & Schuster. Prior to founding Letterform Archive, he served as a creative and marketing consultant with clients in the hospitality, technology, and financial industries.
Kate Long, Librarian​, has a profound interest in book arts, typography, and concrete poetry, stemming from high school where she made art with abandoned Letraset, and later as the editor of a literary magazine where she enjoyed working with designers, artists, and writers. She also gained an appreciation for 20th-century graphic design while at the award-winning studio, Office. Kate earned her MLIS through Drexel University, which will serve her well as she helps to preserve and catalog the collection. She relishes helping people access the things that interest them.
Stephen “Stewf” Coles, Associate Curator & Editorial Director, joined the staff after serving on the organization's Board of Directors since its inception. Born in Salt Lake City, he moved to San Francisco in 2004 to serve as FontShop’s creative director. He later worked as an independent consultant, connecting font makers with font users, and wrote the book ​The Anatomy of Type​. With his background in design and journalism, combined with an obsession for type history, Stephen is responsible for the online face and voice of the Archive, and helps to shape the future of the collection. He will continue to publish the influential websites ​Typographica​ and ​Fonts In Use,​ which will now frequently feature content from the Archive.
The design team – Murray Grigo-McMahon, Jon Sueda, and chris hamamoto
Murray Grigo-McMahon is a Brit who’s made his way to the West Coast via Sweden and Denmark. He trained as a graphic designer and quickly moved to digital in the mid ’90s, starting out as Penguin UK’s first in-house web designer. These days he looks after the product design teams over at NextRoll and spends his free time helping out with data intensive design projects and writing very bad code.
Originally from Hawaii, Jon Sueda has practiced design everywhere from Honolulu to Holland. After earning his MFA in Graphic Design from CalArts in 2002, he was invited to North Carolina State University to serve as a designer in residence, followed by an internship in the Netherlands with Studio Dumbar. In 2004, Sueda founded the design studio Stripe, which specializes in print and exhibition design for art and culture. In 2007, Sueda relocated to the San Francisco area where he served as Director of Design at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts for seven years, and is currently the Chair of the MFA Design program at California College of the Arts. Sueda was the curator of the exhibition All Possible Futures (SOMArts, San Francisco, 2013), and was recently selected as a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
chris hamamoto (b. USA, 1984) is a designer and educator based in Berkeley, CA. He holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts. In addition to teaching, he maintains an independent practice — pursuing his interest in how automation and algorithms affect social relationships and aesthetics — a topic he explores through graphic design, software design, and production. He has shown work and lectured internationally, and has been recognized by institutions such as Printed Matter, STA Chicago, the Walker Art Center, Hongik University, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
About Letterform Archive
Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community. Rob Saunders, a collector of the letter arts for over 40 years, founded the archive as a place to share his private collection with the public. Letterform Archive opened to visitors in February 2015 and now offers hands-on access to a curated collection of over 50,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design, spanning thousands of years of history.

Ellen Lupton: "Herbert Bayer: From Bauhaus to Madison Avenue"
2020-05-14 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The Bauhaus was the world’s most famous art school, and Herbert Bayer (1900–1985) was its most prolific graphic designer. This talk, which features up-close images from the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and from the Merrill C. Berman Collection and Display, Graphic Design Collection, delves into Bayer’s unique design methods and the theories he refined and repeated over his long career. We’ll also dish about Bayer’s unusual relationship with modernism’s biggest power couple (Walter and Ise Gropius) and take a look at his connection to the Third Reich.

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7:00pm Berlin/Europe (CEST)
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Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer, whose latest books are Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold, a feminist career guide for designers. Her book Design Is Storytelling was published by Cooper Hewitt in 2017. She is the founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she authored Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen. She received the AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is dedicated to all disciplines of design. It has a permanent collection of more than 210,000 design objects fully digitized and available online, including its collection of product design, decorative arts, works on paper, graphic design, textiles, wallcoverings, and digital materials.

Elizabeth Denlinger and Charles Cuykendall Carter: NYPL’s Pforzheimer Collection
2020-05-12 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Travel back in time at the New York Public Library where curators Elizabeth Denlinger and Charles Cuykendall Carter will show us some of the NYPL’s Pforzheimer Collection’s rich compilation of 18th and 19th century books and ephemera.
The Pforzheimer Collection was the creation of the financier Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), who took a special interest in the lives and works of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his contemporaries, including his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and such friends and fellow writers as Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, and Edward John Trelawny.
The curators will discuss and show us a wide range of collateral materials supporting study of this period, including biographies, criticism, political and scientific treatises, grammars, dictionaries, almanacs, topical pamphlets, and broadsides related to issues of the day. Because Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer of feminist thought, books and manuscripts we will be introduced to many lesser-known women writers of the period along with advice books, manuals on child-rearing, etiquette, domestic economy, and key proto-feminist texts.

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Curator Elizabeth Denlinger specializes in British Romantic literature, promoting this area through classes, publications, digital projects, and exhibitions, such as Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era and Shelley’s Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet.
Assistant curator Charles Carter processes and organizes the collection materials, and shares outreach duties with Elizabeth. He serves on the board of The American Printing History Association and is the Metadata Developer for The Shelley-Godwin Archive.
Founded in 1895, the New York Public Library is the largest public library system in the United States, featuring a unique combination of 88 neighborhood branches and four scholarly research centers.

Erik Spiekermann: p98a
2020-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
To kick off our virtual salon series, everyone is invited to join us via Zoom webinar as longtime member, TDC Medalist, and former board member, Erik Spiekermann gives us a tour of p98a, his gallery and experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin.
Registration for this special event is free to everyone, on a first-come, first-served basis. Click on the registration link to register for this live Zoom webinar. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The event waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
The start time for the live event is:
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1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
7:00pm Berlin/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Dubai (GST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland
Erik and Lilith printing the “Orbit” poster for a client at galerie p98a
Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, type designer, and author of books and articles on type and typography. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. In 1979, he founded MetaDesign and in 1989, FontShop. He is behind the design of well-know brands such as Audi, Bosch, VW, German Railways and Heidelberg Printing, among others; information systems for Berlin Transit and Düsseldorf Airport and for publications like The Economist. The family of typefaces he designed with Christian Schwartz for DB German Railways won the Gold Medal in the German Design Awards 2007.
Erik is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and in 2003 received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in The Hague. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorship from Pasadena Art Center. He was made an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA in Britain in 2007 and Ambassador for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation by the European Union for 2009.
In addition to receiving the TDC Medal in 2011, Erik received the German National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Lifetime Award from the German Art Directors Club. He was managing partner and creative director of Edenspiekermann with offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Los Angeles until June 2014 when he moved from that position to the supervisory board. He now runs galerie p98a, an experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin.
Erik spoke about his career at the Type Directors Club 2017 conference, Type Over Time. See the video here.

Webinar: Technology and Heritage at CBA
2020-03-19 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
This event is the third in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts.
This evening will feature:

David Crossland, who will discuss variable fonts
Mamoun Sakkal, who will present "Calligraph, Type, Image: A Journey into Arabic Script.

For more on each of the speakers, click here.
The theme of the series revolves around concepts of modernity in Arabic type design, the heritage of Arabic letterforms in the context of current technologies, contemporary Arabic branding design, and the history of Arab graphic design. The series brings together renowned and award winning designers working with Arabic type, both from the US and the Middle East.
Since 1974, The Center for Book Arts has promoted active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. CBA achieve this through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting.
Support for​ ​The Center for Book Arts’ 2020 History of Art Series is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.

Cancelled for March - TypeThursdayNYC
2020-03-19 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

Postponed – Elliot Jay Stocks: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Typography but Have Been Afraid to Ask
2020-03-14 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
In this deeply detailed but varied all-day workshop, Elliot will cover a huge spectrum of typographic knowledge, from foundational best practices and definitions to the very latest techniques and technologies for setting great type across multiple media.
Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.
Read our interview with Elliot about his workshop here.
Website — https://elliotjaystocks.com/
Instagram — @elliotjaystocks
Twitter — @elliotjaystocks

Postponed - Elliot Jay Stocks: The (Really) New Typography
2020-03-12 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Screen-based design has grown up, but there's still so much to keep up with. Best practices for font loading. Licensing fonts for apps. OpenType Variable Fonts. The myriad of places to find new fonts. Elliot will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.
Read our interview with Elliot here.
Website — https://elliotjaystocks.com/
Instagram — @elliotjaystocks
Twitter — @elliotjaystocks

Postponed - With a Cast of Colored Stars - A Talk with Kelly Walters
2020-03-10 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
In design, visual expression is informed by an understanding of history, language, symbols, patterns and image aesthetics. It is imperative that designers have a strong foundation in these areas in order to support the creation of culturally conscious work. Despite this awareness, there remain gaps in design history that neglect showing a broad spectrum of visual languages from the past and excludes discussions on how design has been complicit in forming and reinforcing racism.
Through historical archival research and the act of experimental printmaking, my research aims to highlight the linguistic phrases used in promotional Black film posters during the Jim Crow through Blaxploitation eras. By extracting typographic elements such as “an all colored cast” or “with a cast of colored stars,” Kelly Walters is able to closely examine examples of segregation while also re-contextualizing them for new alternative platforms. In looking closely at typographic details, language, and gestures, identifiable patterns emerge pointing to shifts in communication styles and cultural representation in this area of poster design.
About Kelly Walters
Kelly Walters is a designer and educator whose work investigates the intersection of black cultural vernacular in mainstream media. Her research practice is deeply intertwined with the molding and shaping of cultural identity, and an investment in making visible historical visual expressions that reclaim a Black voice within the field of graphic design. In her independent design studio Bright Polka Dot, she produces print and digital ephemera for publications, exhibitions and social campaigns. She currently is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York.
Website: https://brightpolkadot.com/
Instagram: @brightpolkadot

Contemporary Arabic Graphic Design at CBA
2020-03-07 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
This event is the second in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts.
The afternoon will feature:

Tarek Atrissi, who will be discussing "Branding with Arabic Typography"
Tala Safie will be presenting Haza al Massa (or Tonight), a documentation of the golden years of Lebanese cinema through posters, zines, press books, and film ephemera
Bahia Shehab, who will be giving a talk entitled "From Calligraphers to Type Designers: Arabic Script in Transition."

For more on each of the speakers, click here.
The theme of the series revolves around concepts of modernity in Arabic type design, the heritage of Arabic letterforms in the context of current technologies, contemporary Arabic branding design, and the history of Arab graphic design. The series brings together renowned and award winning designers working with Arabic type, both from the US and the Middle East.
Since 1974, The Center for Book Arts has promoted active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. CBA achieve this through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting.
Other events in the series are:

"Technology and Heritage" on March 19

Support for​ ​The Center for Book Arts’ 2020 History of Art Series is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.

Modernity in Arabic Type Design​ at CBA
2020-03-05 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
This event is the first in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts.
This evening will feature:

Wael Morcos, with a talk entitled "​Right to Left: A Practice​"
Dr. Nadine Chahine discussing ​"The Politics of Arabic Graphic Design​"
Thomas Jockin, who will be presenting ​"Two Decades of Type Directors Club Award-Winning Arabic Typefaces​."

For more on each of the speakers, click here. An opening reception will follow the speakers.
The theme of the series revolves around concepts of modernity in Arabic type design, the heritage of Arabic letterforms in the context of current technologies, contemporary Arabic branding design, and the history of Arab graphic design. The series brings together renowned and award winning designers working with Arabic type, both from the US and the Middle East.
Since 1974, The Center for Book Arts has promoted active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. CBA achieve this through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting.
Other events in the series are:

"Contemporary Arabic Graphic Design" on March 7
"Technology and Heritage" on March 19

Support for​ ​The Center for Book Arts’ 2020 History of Art Series is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.

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.

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