Type Directors Club

TDC65 Exhibition at Takeo in Tokyo
2019-06-12 10:00 - 2019-07-10 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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.

Type ThursdayNYC
2019-06-06 18:00 - 20:30, 2019-04-04 18:30 - 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

Visual Memoranda: A Selection of Posters from the IBM Poster Program 1969-1979
2019-06-06 09:00 - 2019-08-01 15:00 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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.
#TDC64

Type Walk with Paul Shaw: Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill
2019-05-19 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn, NY, United States
On May 19 we will return to Downtown Brooklyn to see what remains of its lettering past as well as to see what is new. We will also visit nearby Boerum Hill for the first time.
We will see classical roman capitals, Art Deco, and geometric sans serifs on courthouses, schools, firehouses and other governmental buildings; grotesque sans serifs on tenements, churches and manhole covers; street signs on buildings; and, of course, examples of vernacular lettering and ghost signs.
Paul Shaw is a designer and a design historian. He has been leading lettering tours of New York City neighborhoods for 10 years and of other cities, both here and in Italy, since 1997. As a designer he specializes in letterforms from calligraphy to type design. Paul has designed or co-designed 18 fonts, including Kolo, Donatello and Old Claude. As a historian he has written or lectured about Bartolomeo Sanvito, W.A. Dwiggins, Oswald Cooper, Frederic W. Goudy, George Salter, Phil Gruskin, Hermann Zapf and others.
Meeting place and itinerary will be emailed a few days in advance of the tour.
This event is being held in association with NYC x Design:

Great Typography on the Web with Variable Fonts with Jason Pamental
2019-05-17 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
New developments in fonts and the web allow us to practice better typography on screens than ever before. In some ways, even better than we can in print. Get an in-depth introduction to responsive typography and the latest evolution of the OpenType specification: Variable Fonts. While traditional design applications are only just beginning to support them, web browsers have embraced them for a lot longer. We’ll explore just how much of your typographic expertise can be put to great use on the web, and look at what variable fonts can do, and how much they can improve both our designs and the user experience.

Starting with an introduction to the concepts of responsive typography, you’ll learn what techniques translate to the web, and what you have to anticipate will change. The real magic is finding the ways to bring sophistication to your typography while still embracing how that system can evolve and adapt as screen sizes change. Variable fonts take design even further, allowing access to the entire design of a typeface—width, weight, italics, and more—rather than having to limit ourselves to only three or four weights and styles on the web.
We’ll go much more in-depth into the new Variable Font format: looking at what axes of variation are typically made available, what’s possible, how it works to implement them, how to find them, and how to test them. From there, we'll explore what this means for designing on the web, and look at some more editorial design ideas to push our sites a whole lot farther.
This is meant to be a hands-on workshop working through implementing various typographic techniques and exploring a variety of variable fonts to show what they can do. We’ll also discuss how our current definition of typography is challenged by the ability for type to change in response to the user: either through preference or environment.
We'll be working with HTML and CSS, though attendees can certainly opt to watch and listen rather than work along as we go. It’s also perfectly fine to come and work collaboratively if some attendees are more comfortable with coding than others. Some experience working with HTML and CSS is preferable, but not required.
Requirements:

You must bring your own laptop with web browser (a recent version of Firefox is well worth it: their developer tools are very helpful in exploring variable fonts)
Code editor of some kind (if you want to work along with the examples we will discuss and create)
Basic familiarity with HTML and CSS is helpful, but not required if you prefer to just watch and list.

Jason Pamental spends much of his time working with clients to establish their typographic systems and digital strategy, helping design and development teams works smarter and faster, and running workshops about all of the above. He is a seasoned design and user experience strategy leader with over 20 years’ experience on the web in both creative and technical roles, and an Invited Expert to the W3C Web Fonts Working Group. Clients range from type industry giants, Ivy League and High Tech, to the NFL and America’s Cup. He also researches and writes on typography for the web: he’s author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, articles for .Net Magazine, PRINT Magazine, HOW, Monotype.com, and frequent podcast guest. Author of online courses for Aquent’s Gymnasium platform and Frontend Masters. He’s an experienced speaker and workshop leader, having presented at over 50 national and international conferences. The real story: mainly he just follows Tristan and Tillie around Turner Reservoir, posting photos on Instagram.
This workshop is being held in association with Creative Tech Week and NYC x Design.

David Berlow: Beyond the Quest for the Perfect Uppercase Partial Differential
2019-05-16 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Google, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This free event will be streamed live from Google HQ in New York City on the TDC YouTube Channel: TDC YouTube
The YouTube event will go live at 5:5o pm EST, and the program will begin at 6:00pm EST. Join us for a memorable event!
The last 30 years has seen a great growth in generalized glyphs and styles. David Berlow's talk will show what happens to and for typography when we start to get more specific about the fonts, and thus the glyphs we design by having more generalized fonts.
The first part talks about glyphs and illustrates how different scripts form ideas, words, and texts. Next, David will discuss how this effects the design of glyphs over a size range and then how this affects the design of styles that can be specified to work together in web and print environments. He will then demonstrate and describe inter-script, inter-class and inter-style typography, and conclude with a question-and-answer session.
David Berlow entered the type industry in 1978 as a letter designer for Mergenthaler. He joined the newly formed Bitstream in 1982. Berlow left Bitstream in 1989 to found The Font Bureau with Roger Black. In 2008, Berlow launched Webtype with Petr van Blokland and others. In 2016, with Font Bureau and other foundries, he created Type Network.
Type Network: Website
Follow David Berlow on Twitter: @dberlow
Read more about David Berlow here.
This event is being held in association with NYC x Design:

Type Directors Club Annual Meeting
2019-05-13 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
All members are invited to attend the Annual Meeting in New York to celebrate the year's activities and achievements.
Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to director@tdc.org
Graphic: Firebelly Design

TDC65 Exhibition in Seoul
2019-05-13 10:00 - 2019-05-22 19:00 (America/New_York) | Under Stand Avenue, 685-704 Seongsu 1(il)-ga 1(il)-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Samwon Specialty Paper is currently hosting the "World's Best Typography" exhibition -- the winners of the 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition of Type Directors Club -- in a special gallery in Under Stand Avenue in Seoul, South Korea.
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.
The exhibition is on display in Seoul from May 13 through May 22. This TDC65 exhibition is open daily from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. This is the first stop on the tour as the show travels through Asia.
Keep up with the exhibition opening and photos here, courtesy of Samwon Paper Gallery's Instagram feed:
@samwonpaper
Graphics: Bond Creative Agency

Type x Graphic Design: Craft and Originality
2019-05-08 18:30 - 21:00 (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
Join us for our second night of frank (and passionate!) conversation between graphic designers and type designers. Together we shape the typographic landscape, yet we still have so much to learn from each other. Our first conversation was about collaboration; this evening, let's talk about craftsmanship.
On May 8th moderator Charles Nix and panelists Christian Schwartz, Jennifer Kinon, Ksenya Samarskaya, and Naomi Abel will catch up and examine our unique and collaborative process. The speakers will give a brief presentation of their creative processes and then join in a discussion. We’ll ask a range of questions, including:
How do you handle the presentation/marketing of your work?
How do you balance originality, experimentation, and craftsmanship?
What makes a typeface and/or a design unique?
Type designers and graphic designers: Let’s keep talking!

Schedule
6:30 pm Doors open & check-in
7:00 pm Event begins
8:30 pm Event ends
8:30 pm Post event reception

TDC Members: $5
AIGA Members: $5
Non-members: $30
Student non-members: $15
MODERATOR
Charles Nix
Charles is a designer, typographer, and educator. He has designed hundreds of books and typefaces, and for more than 20 years, taught at the Parsons School of Design, where he also served as Chairman of Communication Design. He is also Chairman emeritus of the board of the Type Directors Club, an international organization dedicated to furthering typographic excellence. He is a Type Director at Monotype.
PANEL
Naomi Abel
Naomi is a California-born designer & art director who specializes in branding, typography, fashion and the arts. She currently works for Michael Bierut at Pentagram’s New York studio. She received her BFA from Boston University in 2009 where she studied Graphic Design and minored in Art History. She also studied type design at the Cooper Union under the mentorship of Christian Schwartz and Berton Hasebe. Prior to Pentagram, Naomi worked at Mother, Wieden & Kennedy and several prestigious small design studios.
Jennifer Kinon
Jennifer co-founded The Original Champions of Design with Bobby C. Martin Jr. She has developed brand identity systems for clients that range from the Girl Scouts of the USA to The New York Times, MTV, the NBA and Ad Age. During 2016, Kinon served as Design Director of Hillary for America. She has spoken about the role of brand identity systems around the world, served as President of AIGA/NY and was the first graduate of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design program to join the faculty.
Ksenya Samarskaya
Ksenya 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 Ars in NYC. Recent areas of investigation include type in extended reality, and best pedagogical practices for creativity.
Christian Schwartz
Christian is a partner, with London-based designer Paul Barnes, in the type foundry Commercial Type, and heads up the company’s New York office. Schwartz has published fonts with many respected independent foundries and has designed custom typefaces for corporations and publications worldwide including MoMA, the New York Times Style Magazine T, The Guardian, Sprint, and Vanity Fair. In 2007, Schwartz was awarded the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot, given every four or five years by the Association Typographique Internationale to a designer under 35 who has made “an outstanding contribution to the field of type design”. Schwartz’s work has also been honored by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the New York Type Director’s Club, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
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This program is organized by the Type Directors Club in collaboration with AIGA NY and the support of Parsons.

TDC Book Night 2019
2019-05-07 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Museum of Art and Design (MAD), 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Join us as we invite three of the world’s best book cover designers and art directors to come show us how it’s done. This legendary event sells out fast, so get your tickets while you can.
Note: Doors open at 6:00pm - The event starts promptly at 6:30pm.
Nicole Caputo is an award-winning New York graphic designer who has been specializing in book and book cover design for the past 15 years. She is the Creative Director of Counterpoint Press, the Art Director of Catapult and is also co-founder of She Designs Books, an organization that celebrates women in book design. She was formerly VP, Creative Director at Hachette Book Group. Awards include the One Show, Communication Arts, Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, AIGA/NY, HOW International Design, PRINT Regional Design, the New York Book Show, the National Gold Ink Awards, London International Creative Competition, and the Publishing Professionals Network.
Alex Merto is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer and art director, born in New York and raised in California. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts. He is currently an Art Director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as a parter of Graphiatrist, a design studio focusing on editorial design and brand identity. His work has been recognized by AIGA, Type Directors Club, PRINT magazine and The New York Times.
Jason Ramirez is an award-winning designer and art director with Viking/Penguin Books. Previously he worked with St. Martin’s Press and Rodrigo Corral Design. His work has earned honors from Communication Arts and PRINT magazines, Type Directors Club, the AIGA-Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition and the New York Book Show. In addition, his projects have been published in several books related to graphic design and publishing. Jason is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and the University of Rochester.
This event is sponsored by A to A Studio Solutions.

Type Walk with Paul Shaw: From Murray Hill to the United Nations
2019-05-07 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | TBD, New York, NY, United States
For Creative Week in New York Cit, Paul Shaw's tour will include such iconic New York lettering venues as the Empire State Bulding, the Chanin Building, Tudor City, and the Beaux Arts Institute of Design. But it will also look at the mundane and often overlooked examples of lettering in the city such as door handles, house numbers, and manhole covers. There will be Gothic, Art Deco, and script letters; blackletter and classical roman capitals.
Paul Shaw is a designer and a design historian. He has been leading lettering tours of New York City neighborhoods for 10 years and of other cities, both here and in Italy, since 1997. As a designer he specializes in letterforms from calligraphy to type design. Paul has designed or co-designed 18 fonts, including Kolo, Donatello and Old Claude. As a historian he has written or lectured about Bartolomeo Sanvito, W.A. Dwiggins, Oswald Cooper, Frederic W. Goudy, George Salter, Phil Gruskin, Hermann Zapf and others.
Meeting place and itinerary will be emailed a few days in advance of the tour.

Type ThursdayNYC
2019-05-02 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
More info and RSVP here.

The Twilight of Letterpress: New York in the 80s
2019-04-25 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Ron and Dean interviewed the various proprietors and photographed their shops, their studios, and representative samples of their work. Little did any of them know that what was coming to an end in the city was not only letterpress, but the whole printing industry itself. Ron will show Dean’s nostalgic and evocative photos again in a re-creation of a talk originally given in 1984, and reflect on printing in New York the last 35 years.
Pittsburgh Metal Foundry
Ron Gordon (in hat)
RON GORDON studied printing, typography, and book design with two great masters, Leonard Baskin and Joseph Blumenthal, and then founded his own Oliphant Press in 1970 to carry on the tradition of fine printing and design. Beginning as a letterpress printer, Ron adapted his style and skills as the craft shifted to computer typesetting, offset lithography, and now, digital printing.
His work has been exhibited at the Amherst College Library, the RIT Cary Collection, and the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston. Ron has taught workshops at the book arts centers at Wells, Wellesley, Dartmouth, and RIT. He has trained numerous assistants and interns, and has lectured at libraries, colleges, and book clubs all over the country.

Miguel Reyes: Variation on a Theme
2019-04-11 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Commissioned by creative director Cian Browne and art director Jeffrey Burch, this display family was designed to accentuate the magazine’s provocative photography and cutting edge fashion, and will soon make its way to the retail market.
Miguel Reyes (born 1984), originally from Puebla, Mexico, studied graphic design at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla before working as a type designer, graphic designer, and publication designer in Barcelona and Mexico City, then studied type design at CEGestalt, School of Design in Mexico City. He later attended the Type and Media Masters course at KABK in the Hague and began working with Commercial Type at the beginning of 2013. His work has been honored by the New York Type Directors Club, the Latin American Biennial of Typography, and by the Fine Press Book Association.

Website: https://commercialtype.com/about/miguel_reyes
Instagram: @font_taste
Twitter: @font_taste

Manuel Estrada: Painting with Letters
2019-04-04 09:00 - 2019-05-29 16:00 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The central idea of this exhibition is that writing and painting are two close activities that are in the central core of the creative process. 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. Most of works shown are book covers, but the exhibition features 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.
Due to the popularity of this exhibition, we have invited Manuel Estrada to return to New York for a gallery talk on May 29. Tickets are available here.
Website: www.estradadesign.eu
Twitter: @Estrada_design
Exhibition: Digital Gallery
To view the show, please email our director, Carol Wahler, for an appointment at director@tdc.org
This event is being held in association with NYC x Design:

Manuel Estrada: Painting with Letters
2019-04-03 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The central idea of this exhibition is that writing and painting are two close activities that are in the central core of the creative process. 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. Most of works shown are book covers, but the exhibition features 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

TDC64 Exhibition at AUT in Auckland NZ
2019-04-02 10:00 - 2019-04-17 17:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | ST PAUL St Gallery Two, 40 Saint Paul Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
Type Directors Club is pleased to announce that its “The World’s Best Typography” exhibition is on view in Auckland, New Zealand for the first time, courtesy of award-winning design firm Osborne Shiwan and the School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Direct from its New York showing, TDC64 Auckland is showcasing an exciting, culturally diverse range of award-winning work from 36 countries. The exhibition is on display at St Paul St Gallery Three in Auckland from April 2 – 17.
Lloyd Osborne, Creative Director at design agency Osborne Shiwan, attributes interest in the exhibition to its global focus. “The Type Directors Club promotes diversity in typographic excellence through its encouragement of different languages in typography. We are proud to bring TDC64 to Auckland.”
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.

Dr. Peter Gilderdale, Senior Lecturer in Communication Design at AUT, sees the event as an important opportunity in allowing New Zealand designers to view work in its original form, rather than solely on the web. “We are excited to offer this opportunity to our students, and we hope that the exhibition will act as a venue for the profession and our students to jointly share a passion for typography. We are delighted to be able to work with Osborne Shiwan in making this important exhibition happen.”
About Osborne Shiwan
Founded in 2006, Osborne Shiwan is an Auckland-based design agency specializing in strategic thinking and art direction. Creative Directors Lloyd Osborne and Shabnam Shiwan have worked with some of New Zealand’s most influential brands and their work has been recognised internationally within the areas of commerce, arts and culture.

TDC64 Exhibition at EASD Soria, Spain
2019-04-01 08:00 - 2019-05-10 17:00 (America/New_York) | Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Soria, Plaza Tirso de Molina, nº 5, Soria, Soria, 24004, Spain
This marks the first time that EASD Soria hosts this exhibition of award-winning work.
The exhibition opening was held in conjunction with the 20th celebration of the art school's Graphic Design Days April 2 - 4. 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 in Soria is open to the public and is on display in the school's assembly hall. This showing in Soria follows exhibitions in Barcelona and Sabadell, and has been seen in South Korea, Japan, Poland, Belgium, Canada, Vietnam, and New Zealand.

Type x Graphic Design: Relationships & Collaboration
2019-03-27 18:00 - 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
Graphic designers and type designers need each other (aww!). Our relationship is a powerful force that shapes the typographic landscape. And yet, we never get together. It’s time we talked.
Join Elizabeth Carey Smith, June Shin, Lisa Smith, Nina Stössinger, and YuJune Park on March 27th where we’ll be catching up and shedding light on our unique and collaborative process. The speakers will be giving a brief presentation of their creative processes, and will gather around for a panel discussion. We’ll be covering a range of questions, including:
How do graphic designers find and select typefaces?
What do type designers have in mind when they’re designing new ones?
How do custom typefaces come to life?
Type designers and graphic designers: a meeting is long overdue. Let’s talk!
Event Series: Fresh Dialogue
Type x Graphic Design: Relationships & Collaboration 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.
AIGA event in collaboration with Type Directors Club. Tickets include post-event reception.

Gloria Kundrup and Meryl Vedros: FEMINAE, Typographic Voices: of Women, by Women
2019-03-26 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Gloria Kundrup and Meryl Vedros will present posters curated from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics -- a selection that examines issues such as choice, gender inequality, war, and violence against women. Included are works by Barbara Kruger, Sister Corita Kent, the Guerilla Girls, and others, representing the global voice of women.
Gloria Kundrup is currently the Executive Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography [HMCT] at ArtCenter College of Design, whose mission is to advance and elevate typography. As Director of HMCT/Archetype Press, ArtCenter’s unique and vibrant letterpress studio, she redefines the value of typography and analog technology in the digital landscape.
HMCT Links:
Website: www.hmctartcenter.org
Instagram: @hmctartcenter
Twitter: @hmctartcenter
Facebook: @hmctartcenter
Meryl Vedros is the Creative Director and owner of Vedros Studio, a company specializing in brand design and field research. Her path as an entrepreneur and explorer has given her the opportunity to travel more than 30 countries as a nomad, speaker, and ethnographer.
Website: http://vedrosstudio.com/
Instagram: @vedrosstudio
Meryl Vedros

Timothy Samara: The Wheel Is Still Round: Renewing Focus on the Study of Form in Graphic Design Education
2019-03-21 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
How did we become so distracted from what really matters? Provocative answers to these questions precede a prescription for effectively building students’ expertise in design’s core fluency.
Timothy Samara is a New York–based graphic designer who integrates professional practice and teaching at several institutions; he is a frequent lecturer and contributor to design publications. Samara’s 11 books on design have been translated into ten languages and are used by students and practitioners around the world. He is currently developing a visual/cultural history of graphic design.
Website: www.timothysamara.com

Zapf Centennial Symposium at The Grolier Club
2019-03-20 17:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY, 10022, United States
This special event has been organized by The Grolier Committee on Modern Fine Printing.
Hermann Zapf was the first person to receive the prestigious TDC Medal in 1967.
The symposium speakers include:
• Dr. Robert Bringhurst, a Candian known for his work as a linguist, cultural historian, typographer and author of The Elements of Typographic Style
• David Pankow, Curator Emeritus, The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Ferdinand Ulrich, typographer, writer and educator, and type designer, who is a doctoral student at the University of Reading, United Kingdom
• Julian Waters, a former student of Hermann Zapf, who works as a lettering designer, international teacher, and lecturer
This symposium is being held in conjunction with Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf, on view at the Grolier Club, February 20–April 2. 2019.
The seminar is free and open to the public. If you are interested in attending the seminar, please RSVP to Maev Brennan, mbrennan@grolierclub.org, (212) 838-6690
Alphabet Magic chronicles the extraordinary artistic achievements of Gudrun and Hermann Zapf with the most comprehensive exhibition of their work to date. Zapf’s typefaces Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino (to name a few) are a part of our everyday lives in the United States and Europe, as well as around the world. He was also at the forefront of type technology. Zapf’s Marconi alphabet design was the first typeface ever created specifically for digital typography. Gudrun Zapf von Hesse secured her own design legacy through typefaces such as Diotima, Carmina, and Shakespeare Roman.

Included in the exhibition are rare specimens of their typefaces, landmark works using their typefaces, original calligraphic works of art, and examples of fine bookbinding. In addition to completed works, ephemeral process work for some of Gudrun and Hermann Zapf’s most important typefaces and publications offers a behind-the-scenes look at the masters at work. Of special interest are sketches, layouts, and proofs for Hermann Zapf’s groundbreaking Feder und Stichel (1950), Manuale Typographicum (1954, 1968), and Orbis Typographicus (1990). As Robert Bringhurst has written, Hermann Zapf has been “widely recognized as one of the most poetic of type designers, or, to put it another way, as the author of some of the loveliest printing type ever made.”
Although Gudrun and Hermann Zapf are perhaps best known for their type design, over the course of their long careers they engaged with nearly every aspect of the book arts. Hermann considered himself a book designer at heart, Gudrun is a noted bookbinder, and both were master calligraphers.
Co-sponsors: American Printing History Association-New York Chapter, Center for Book Arts, Society of Scribes, Type Directors Club, Typophiles, and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology

Type Design for Non Type Designers
2019-03-09 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Get a crash course in designing type from Matteo Bologna, Creative Director of award-winning studio Mucca Design.
This (always sold out) 6 hours workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild journey into the super fun world of
type design.
This class will teach you the basics of designing and generating a typeface with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only).
In the morning session we will learn the basics of drawing a font, generate the font, and use it in InDesign.In the afternoon, we will add additional letters to the font, learning how to kern them, add diacritics, and produce the combined letters. At the end of the day, we will not have a finished font, but a respectable start and hopefully you’ll be infected with the type making bug.
Requirements:

Basic Adobe Illustrator skills are necessary.
You must bring your own laptop with a full or trial version of the font design program Glyphs already installed (download a free 30-day trial). Sorry no Windows, no Fontlab, no Robofont.
No prior experience is required in font design, but some experience with Bézier-based vector drawing tools is useful.

About Matteo Bologna

Matteo Bologna is the principal of Mucca Design, where he also serves as Creative Director. Under his direction, the Mucca Design team has solved numerous design challenges and created uniquely successful work for a wide variety of global companies like Sephora, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, Barnes & Noble, Adobe Systems, Bacardi and Target. With his team he designed the identities for a variety of now classic New York City culinary destinations like Balthazar’s and Brooklyn Fare.
Matteo is also the principal of the new Mucca spin-off type foundry muccaTypo.
Matteo is a past president of the Type Directors Club and former board member of AIGA/NY. He frequently lectures about branding and typography around the world.

Type Drives Culture Conference 2019
2019-03-01 09:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Type Directors Club celebrates the undeniable significance of typography around the world. We are a global community of experts and enthusiasts who are united by the shared belief that type drives culture. And culture drives type.
Like many industries, typography and type design have long suffered from a lack of diversity and inclusion. But the doors are beginning to widen, revealing a pathway for new ideas, perspectives, and leaders.
The annual Type Drives Culture conference on March 1st reflects the changing face(s) of typography. We’re moving outside of the design canon to feature as many global scripts, diverse designers, and regions as possible.
Our title this year is Type: More _____ Than Ever, an interactive theme that invites new voices to fill in the blank about the present and future of type.
Our exciting lineup includes two of the most influential typeface designers of the 21st century, Fiona Ross and Kris Holmes, along with a new generation of designers and thinkers who are making type more accessible, more global, and more exciting than ever before.
Join us at the SVA Theatre in New York City for this unique opportunity to meet, hear from, and nerd out with type lovers from all over.
Conference highlights include:

Our Master of Ceremonies, Rich Tu, the Vice President of Design for MTV, AIGA NY board member, and host of First Generation Burden podcast
Our keynote speaker, type designer, educator, and TDC Medalist Fiona Ross
Presentations by award-winning designers and thinkers E Roon Kang, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Wael Morcos, Natasha Jen, Anne Quito, Yotam Hadar, and Ksenya Samarskaya
An interview with Kris Holmes of Bigelow & Holmes during a live-taping of Debbie Millman’s influential podcast, Design Matters
A panel discussion with Dan Rhatigan of Adobe Fonts, Irin Kim of Google Fonts, and Charles Nix of Monotype moderated by Juliette Cezzar
A two-hour reception with the speakers and panelists directly following the programming

Event Sponsors:
Google, Morisawa, Occupant Fonts, A to A Studio Solutions, Facebook Analog Research Lab, Adobe Type, Glyphs, LAFCO New York, SVA Masters in Branding, and Design Matters
No ticket code required. Reduced prices are as marked.
Come help us fill in the blank on March 1st! Learn more on our conference website.
Group rates available via director@tdc.org
Doors open: 8:15am Coffee
Design & Strategy: Juan Villanueva & Ysabel Yates
