TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly gathering of type geeks, held at Type Directors Club. We like to think of ourselves as a type superfamily: we attract local letterform lovers hailing from all disciplines and levels of expertise. Social hours bookend the centerpiece of our event, a group critique we refer to as Type Crit. What the […]
This event is the third in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts. This evening will feature: David Crossland, who will discuss variable fonts Mamoun Sakkal, who will present "Calligraph, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]