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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]