Type Directors Club

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

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

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

TypeThursday NYC
2019-10-03 18:00 - 21:00 | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Juan Carlos Pagan at TypeCon (+ Facebook Analog Research Lab!)
2019-08-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
The Type Directors Club and the Society of Typographic Aficionados are pleased to announce that lettering artist and illustrator Juan Carlos Pagan will be giving a special presentation on Thursday, August 29th, as part of TypeCon2019 “Nice” in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Plus, a we are hosting a screenprinting activity with Facebook Analog Research Lab! After the talk, grab a squeegee and print the final layer on a design created just for this special pop-up! It's all happening right here!

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

TypeCon 2019
2019-08-28 08:00 - 2019-09-01 17:00 | Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts.
The majority of the TypeCon program (see below) takes place at the Hilton Minneapolis from August 28th to September 1st in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consult the TypeCon program page for other venues and special event details that will be added.
We will be showing all of the award-winning Typeface Designs in a special exhibition alongside the TDC65 Communication Design winners. Stop by to say hello! We will also be hosting a special evening with Juan Carlos Pagan on August 29 that you will not want to miss.
Early bird pricing ends July 14. Register here.
TDC Members attending TypeCon 2019 receive 20% off their registration. Email Carol Wahler director@tdc.org for the membership discount code.
TypeCon events:
Wednesday, August 28th

Pre-conference Workshops
Kickoff Event

Thursday, August 29th

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

Friday, August 30th

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

Saturday, August 31st

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

Sunday, September 1st

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

"Look Both Ways" Exhibition at SVA Chelsea Gallery
2019-08-24 10:00 - 2019-09-21 18:00 | SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
School of Visual Arts presents Look Both Ways: The Illicit Liaison Between Image and Information, a new exhibition curated by Debbie Millman, chair of the MPS Branding program at SVA. This exhibition brings together a wide range of typographic work from 60 individual artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Paul Sahre, Carin Goldberg, Jenny Holzer, Seymour Chwast, Chip Kidd, Kim Gordon, Tim Goodman, Paula Scher, and more, from Millman’s personal collection and beyond. Look Both Ways is free and open to the public, and will be on view from August 24 through September 21 at the SVA Chelsea Gallery.
Look Both Ways showcases the many ways in which words, text, and information influence art, design, literature and music. Bold typographic expression has become the cultural currency of communication and the centerpiece of connection. Objects and experiences all around us now contain an inscription, an impression or a point of view.
“I am thrilled to partner with SVA to share this selection of typography works from a group of innovative and outspoken artists, several from my own personal collection,” said curator and MPS Branding chair Debbie Millman. “This exhibition is a stark reminder of the power language has to rule all facets of culture. These works will undoubtedly incite many passionate discussions.”
In addition to her work as an educator and leader at SVA, Millman is an acclaimed designer, writer, and strategist and has been hosting her Design Matters podcast for more than 14 years.
The exhibition, located on the 15th Floor of Manhattan's landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, is open Monday through Saturday (closed Sunday).
Everyone is welcomed to attend the exhibition reception on September 6 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, where there will be performances by selected artists.

The Ascenders 2019 Exhibition
2019-08-14 08:00 - 2019-09-13 16:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Congratulations to the Ascenders 2019! Come see their work!
The Type Directors Club invites everyone to view examples of the work of ten young designers named Ascenders 2019, the result of a competition that received 130 entries by designers from 33 countries. See award-winning work by:
Daniel Brokstad (New York)
Vincent Chan (Melbourne)
Fernanda Cozzi (Buenos Aires)
Sean Freeman (London)
Ben Grandgenett (New York)
Anthony Hos (Auckland)
Ben Johnston (Toronto)
Abraham Lule (New York)
Loris Olivier (Geneva)
Gregory Shutters (Chicago)
The exhibition will be on display Monday through Friday from August 13 through August 26, and from September 9 through September 13. (The TDC office will be closed while we attend TypeCon in Minneapolis and ATypI in Tokyo.)
Admission is free, but we request that you make an appointment to visit us by emailing Carol Wahler, our executive director, at director@tdc.org. Gallery hours are 9:00am through 4:00pm Monday through Friday. (Remember that we will be closed for some days during the run of this exhibition.)

Ascenders 2019 Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Opening
2019-08-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Have a glass of wine and join the Type Directors Club board of directors in celebrating some of the best designers in the world:
Daniel Brokstad (New York)
Vincent Chan (Melbourne)
Fernanda Cozzi (Buenos Aires)
Sean Freeman (London)
Ben Grandgenett (New York)
Anthony Hos (Auckland)
Ben Johnston (Toronto)
Abraham Lule (New York)
Loris Olivier (Geneva)
Gregory Shutters (Chicago)
This will be the opening of the Ascenders 2019 exhibition, which will be on display in New York City through September 13, 2019.

Type ThursdayNYC
2019-08-01 18:00 - 20:45, 2019-07-11 18:00 - 20:45, 2019-06-06 18:00 - 20:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States

Torsten Lindsø Andersen: Type in Context
2019-07-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
So many contemporary brand typefaces look alike. The Kontrapunkt type department in Copenhagen believes that diversity is important in every aspect of life, including design and type design. On a quest to fight typographic monoculture Torsten will share strategies and experiences with designing letters that tell stories – drawing parallels to the arts of architecture, sound, and New Nordic Cuisine in search of inspiration and methodology.
Torsten Lindsø Andersen is a (type)designer based in Copenhagen, where he runs Kontrapunkt’s type department and type lab together with Rasmus Michaëlis. Torsten’s experience working with corporate visual identities are put to use when designing bespoke typefaces for large and small brands around the world.
Website: www.kontrapunkt.com
Instagram: @kontrapunktcom
Rasmus and Torsten's Instagram: @torsten.rasmus
Facebook: @kontrapunktcom

TDC65 Exhibition Opening and Awards
2019-07-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The Type Directors Club invites members, its honorees, and the press to the private New York opening of The World’s Best Typography: The 65th Annual Exhibition of the Type Directors Club. The exhibition features communication design and the selections from the twenty-first annual typeface design competition, which will be on display through August 9, 2019.
Announcements of the Best in Show, Best in Show Student Awards and Scholarship presentations start at 6:30 PM in the auditorium. Please join us as we also present the 32nd TDC Medal to Wim Crouwel. Over the past 52 years the TDC Medal has been awarded to individuals who excel in the field of typography and typographic design.
Drinks and hors d'ouevres in the foyer.
Exhibition viewing in the gallery.
Only winners of the TDC competitions will receive FREE tickets. Everyone is invited but must purchase tickets.
TDC65 Judges
Karin Fong, Imaginary Forces
Leo Jung, Sunday Magazine
Eddie Opara, Pentagram
Paulina Reyes, Plated New York
Ian Spalter, Instagram
Annik Troxler, Switzerland
Zipeng Zhu, Dazzle
Chair: Bobby Martin, Jr., OCD
Typeface Design Judges
Nicole Dotin, Process Type Foundry
Tobias Frere-Jones, Frere-Jones Type
Erin McLaughlin
Kristyan Sarkis, TPTQ Arabic Type Foundry
Chair: Nina Stössinger, Frere-Jones Type
Designed by Bond, London
This event is sponsored by Monotype and The Cooper Union

TDC65 Exhibition at The Cooper Union in New York City
2019-07-17 09:30 - 2019-08-09 17:00 | 41 Cooper Gallery at The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Type Directors Club thanks The Cooper Union, Type@Cooper, and the Herb Lubalin Study Center for hosting the New York City debut of The World's Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club's 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition. Everyone is invited to see the exhibition through August 9.
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.
Installation view of The World's Best Typography at The Cooper Union
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.
TDC65 Judges

Karin Fong, Imaginary Forces
Leo Jung, Sunday Magazine
Eddie Opara, Pentagram
Paulina Reyes, Plated, NY
Ian Spalter, Instagram
Annik Troxler, Switzerland
Zipeng Zhu, Dazzle
Chair: Bobby Martin, Jr., OCD
Typeface Design Judges
Nicole Dotin, Process Type Foundry
Tobias Frere-Jones, Frere-Jones Type
Erin McLaughlin
Kristyan Sarkis, TPTQ Arabic Type Foundry
Chair: Nina Stössinger, Frere-Jones Type
For the first time, Type Directors Club is featuring award-winning student work from the typeface design competition in addition to the communications design competition.
We invite all visitors to take photographs of their favorite typography in the show and to post it on social media with the tag #TDC65.
Identity: Bond Creative
Award-winning posters from designers in China, Switzerland, New York, and Berlin

TDC65 Exhibition at PJITK in Warsaw
2019-07-01 08:00 - 2019-09-30 17:00 | Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technologies (PJAIT), Koszykowa 86, Warszawa, Warszawa, 02-008, Poland
Type Directors Club thanks the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJITK) in Warsaw for this year's Polish debut of The World's Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club's 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition.
Everyone is invited to attend the exhibition opening June 1 at 7:00 pm.
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 is open daily and will be on display in the Auditorium. Award-winning books will be on display in the library.
This is the first stop on the tour as the show travels through Poland to Lublin and Krakow.
Keep up with the exhibition opening and photos on PJITK's Facebook and Instagram pages.
Art Director: Sonia Rybicka
VIsual Identity: Emilia Miękisz
Font: Cyrulik, Maciej Połczyński
#TDC65

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TDC65 Exhibition at ECV in Lille, France
2019-06-20 13:00 - 2019-06-29 18:00 | ECV Lille, 4 Parvis Saint Maurice, Lille, 59000, France
Type Directors Club thanks the École de Communication Visuelle (ECV) Lille for the French debut of the "World's Best Typography" exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club's 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition.
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 is open daily from 1:00pm to 6:00 pm. This is the first stop on the tour as the show travels through France.
Keep up with the exhibition opening and photos on ECV Lille's Instagram feed @ecv_lille
The identity for this exhibition was created by Clementine Wiart, Caroline Moeneclaey, and Morgane Borowczyk, third-year design students at the ECV Lille campus.
#TDC65

Signal: An American Type Foundry in Dublin
2019-06-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
In 2013, type designer Max Phillips followed his Irish wife from New York City to Dublin and found a close-knit, fast-growing, and welcoming design community. He'll talk about running a small type foundry in a new country, collaborating with Dublin designers on Dublin institutions, and learning what "Irish" means from Irish people continually answering that question for themselves.

Max Phillips is proprietor of the Dublin-based Signal Type Foundry & Drawing Office, which specializes in type design, lettering, and branding. A former novelist and toy designer, he now makes useful, attractive things for clients like An Post, Bewley's, CBS, Christie’s, Citi, FAO Schwarz, and Trinity College Dublin, and collaborates with studios and agencies in Ireland and abroad. His work has been recognised by the Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, Graphis, and the ISTD.
Signal website: https://signalfoundry.com/
Twitter: @SignalType
Instagram: @signaltype

TDC65 Exhibition at Takeo in Tokyo
2019-06-12 10:00 - 2019-07-10 19:00 | Takeo Mihoncho Honten Gallery, 3-18-3 Kanda Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0054, Japan
Type Directors Club thanks the Japan Typography Association and Takeo Paper for the Japanese debut of the World’s Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club’s 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition.

TDC65 is shown in association with JTA's Japan Typography Yearbook 2019 exhibition.

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 is open daily from 10:00am to 7:00 pm. This is the first stop on the tour as the show travels through Japan, a tradition that our friends at JTA have continued with Type Directors Club in New York since 1978.

More information in Japanese on Takeo's website here.

Nagoya and Osaka are the next stops in Japan for this joint exhibition
#TDC65

Typographics
2019-06-10 10:00 - 2019-06-20 18:00 | Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY, 10003, United States
WHAT:
The 11-day festival is a forum for presentations about graphic design, lettering, web design, publication design, book design, type design, packaging, branding, corporate identity, advertising, and motion graphics. Importantly, Typographics focus on new frontiers in-app and responsive web design. The international line-up of speakers includes emerging and established designers. The group attracts many distinguished typographers and the program is designed as a dialogue among all the participants.
In the week before and the week after the main conference, Type@Cooper is offering workshops and tours that will educate and entertain conference participants and are open to the public as well.
WHEN:
The festival runs from June 10 through June 20th. The conference starts on Friday, June 14th at 9:45 am and concludes on Saturday, June 15th at 6:00 pm.

FESTIVAL EVENTS:

June 10-13: Workshops and tours
June 13-16: TypeLab events
June 14-15: Conference presentations
June 14-16: Typographics book fair
June 16-20: Workshops and tours

DISCOUNTS FOR TDC MEMBERS:
TDC members receive discounts on registration. Email director@tdc.org for the discount code.
WHERE:
The festival will take place at The Cooper Union in the East Village, with the conference happening at The Great Hall in The Foundation Building of the same college.
The Cooper Union’s landmark Foundation Building is in one of the liveliest and hippest neighborhoods in Manhattan. The East Village attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year and is a destination in itself. What better place to hold this event? New York is one of the largest centers of graphic design with several hundred design studios. Conference participants will experience first-hand the energy and impact of typography in a thriving city that is a rich pool of talent and resources.
Since 1859, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union with 855 seats has been a stage for educational lectures, political movements, campaigns for social reform and the creative arts. Here, abolitionists like Frederick Douglass campaigned to end slavery and suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for women to have the right to vote. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave the speech that propelled him to the presidency. Working people organized labor unions and civic reformers, political movements, the Red Cross, and the NAACP all have roots here.
The Great Hall has offered a platform to Heads of State, Nobel laureates, and American presidents from Lincoln and Grant to Clinton and Obama. On June 15 and 16, 2018, Typographics designers will again take the stage and affect the trajectory of design in the 21st century.

Visual Memoranda: A Selection of Posters from the IBM Poster Program 1969-1979
2019-06-06 09:00 - 2019-08-01 15:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Everyone is invited to drop in at Type Directors Club in New York to see our new exhibition, Visual Memoranda: A Selection of Posters from the IBM Poster Program 1969-1979 through August 1.
The decades following World War II ushered in an era of unprecedented growth for International Business Machines (IBM), as innovations in electronic data processing and the miniaturization of transistor-based electronics transformed the company into a multibillion-dollar colossus.
During this period, Thomas J. Watson Jr., president of IBM, sought to elevate the company’s image as a forward-thinking, technologically-advanced organization by hiring world-renowned design consultants, including Eliot Noyes, Charles and Ray Eames, and Paul Rand (who designed the instantly recognizable IBM logo and held a remarkable influence over internal staff designers.)
The IBM Poster Program was initiated in the late 1960s by staff designer Ken White, who had studied under Rand at Yale. Tom Bluhm also transferred into the team, having worked as a contract illustrator for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. Soon, Ken’s former colleague John Anderson was also added to the staff.
Curators Robert Finkel and Shea Tillman of Auburn University have curated this beautiful show and created a companion website, which you can view here.
Take a look at the installation of the exhibition at TDC and IBM in TDC's history here.
This exhibition at TDC is open for viewing from June 6 until Thursday, August 1 by appointment only. Email director@tdc.org for an appointment from 9:00am to 3:00pm Monday through Friday. Sorry, we are closed on weekends.

Robert Finkel and Shea Tillman: Visual Memoranda - IBM Poster Program 1969-1979
2019-06-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join us for the opening night of our new exhibition, Visual Memoranda: A Selection of Posters from the IBM Poster Program 1969-1979. Curators Robert Finkel and Shea Tillman will be there to share their research about this corporate design venture and speak about the designers whose works are on display.
The decades following World War II ushered in an era of unprecedented growth for International Business Machines (IBM), as innovations in electronic data processing and the miniaturization of transistor-based electronics transformed the company into a multibillion-dollar colossus.
During this period, Thomas J. Watson Jr., president of IBM, sought to elevate the company’s image as a forward-thinking, technologically-advanced organization by hiring world-renowned design consultants, including Eliot Noyes, Charles and Ray Eames, and Paul Rand (who designed the instantly recognizable IBM logo and held a remarkable influence over internal staff designers.)
The IBM Poster Program was initiated in the late 1960s by staff designer Ken White, who had studied under Rand at Yale. It was also during this period that Tom Bluhm transferred into the team, having worked as a contract illustrator for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. Shortly thereafter, Ken’s former colleague John Anderson was also added to the staff.
Website preview here.
This exhibition is open for viewing from June 6 until Thursday, August 1st, 3 p.m. by appointment only. The TDC office is closed on weekends.

Gallery Talk with Manuel Estrada: Painting with Letters
2019-05-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Because we have had such an incredible response to Manuel Estrada's beautiful exhibit, we have invited him to come back to New York and speak about his work. Take a look at the photo gallery here.
Painting with letters is something Manuel Estrada has always been interested in, as in writing with images. It is a way of summing up all tools to turn design into an object to examine or an image to look at. Manuel will talk about his book covers, posters, and logos that are built around the same principle — typography as the main tool of graphic design.
Manuel Estrada is the recipient of the Spanish National Design Award. His Estudio, founded in 1989, has offices in Madrid and Miami, it has a team of 17 people and is specialized in corporate identity programs. He is a strong supporter of design as a fact of business development and its direct input in the success of corporations, and has also being dedicated to teaching in many different institutions. His work has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Helsinki, Berlin, Lisbon, and many cities throughout Spain.
Website: www.estradadesign.eu

Twitter: @Estrada_design

DesignThinkers Vancouver 2019
2019-05-28 - 2019-05-29 | Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2P1, 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 trend, technologies and philosophies transform the wider world. Join us at DesignThinkers Vancouver this May, put on by RGD in partnership with GDC, 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.
Type Directors Club members receive 15% off the registration fee with the promo code. (Members, email director@tdc.org for the code!)
Confirmed Speakers:
Jessica Bellamy, Motion Infographic Designer and Founder of GRIDS
Hillel Cooperman, Senior VP of UX Design at Oracle
Jenny Lam, Senior VP of UX Design at Oracle
Karin Fong, Founder of Imaginary Forces
Cheryl Heller, Designer, Author and Educator
Kit Hinrichs, Principal and Creative Director at Studio Hinrichs
Sarah Hyndman, Founder of Type Tasting
Austin Kleon, Writer, Artist, Speaker and NYT bestselling Author
Leland Maschmeyer, Chief Creative Officer of Chobani
Mike Monteiro, Co-Founder and Design Director at Mule Design
Ashley Shaffer, Consumer Research and Brand Strategy Director at Preacher
Zolty, Co-Founder & Head of Design at BREAKFAST
For more information, visit https://designthinkers.com/vancouver/

TDC64 Exhibition in Madrid
2019-05-22 16:00 - 2019-07-03 22:00 | Matadero Madrid, Plaza de Legazpi 8, Madrid, 28405, Spain
Di_Mad (Asociación Diseñadores de Madrid y Fundación Diseño Madrid), Madrid's leading organization of designers and design firms, is hosting his exhibition of award-winning work at Matadero Madrid through June 30.
This exhibition is one of eight touring internationally to celebrate the World's Best Typography, as judged by a panel of internationally renowned graphic designers in January 2018.
The exhibition presents over 200 works in typeface design and communications design, chosen from 1,835 entries by some of the design industry’s most recognized mentors, innovators and thought-leaders, with work in dozens of languages. The communications design portion of the exhibition integrates both professional and student work and features typography in a wide range of forms -- books, posters, corporate branding, logos, web graphics, film and TV titles, products, and magazines.
The exhibition in Madrid is open to the public and follows several showings across Spain --in Barcelona, Sabadell, and Soria -- in addition to exhibitions in New York, South Korea, Japan, Poland, Belgium, Canada, France, Vietnam, and New Zealand in 2018 and 2019.
The exhibition will be open May 22 - 30 and June 5 - 30.
Admission is free of charge, and the exhibition is open daily -- Monday to Friday, from 4pm to 10 pm, and on Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 10pm. Read more on Di_Mad's website here.
TDC64 debuts in Madrid at Matadero Madrid on May 22, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Di-Mad Facebook.
Graphic design: Triboro
The Type Directors Club annual that contains all of the award-winning work displayed in this exhibition is available here.
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