Type Directors Club

The Right Kind of Wrong: Inside the Facebook Analog Research Lab
2019-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
You’ll see posters, printed matter and installation work of the Facebook Analog Research Lab and its Designer-in-Residence program established in 2016. Scott Boms will offer a rare view and chart the evolution of the values and mission of this unique organization — the what, the how, and most importantly, the why.
Scott will talk about how and why Facebook decided to put ideas, critical questions, and visual interventions into the spaces that people inhabit, and how these hand-crafted artworks are opening doors to new ways of looking at the world, finding community, inviting dialog, and creating positive friction that meaningfully affects people.
Scott Boms is a cross-disciplinary graphic designer and printmaker. As the global design lead at the Analog Research Lab, Facebook’s in-house design and art making studio, he is responsible for creating and guiding projects that ask questions, intersect social values, and provoke important questions with the aim to open minds to new ideas and perspectives.
The evening will feature a panel discussion featuring Facebook’s past Designers in Residence: Elana Schlenker, Kaye Blegvad, Eddie Perrote, and Luiza Dale.
Website: http://scottboms.com
Instagram: @scottboms
Twitter: @scottboms
Facebook: @scottboms
Facebook Analog Research Lab:
Instagram: @analoglab
Facebook: @analoglab

NYC Print Exhibition: Connection, Community & Values -- Inside the Facebook Analog Research Lab
2019-02-06 09:00 - 2019-03-29 16:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
You’ll see posters and printed matter of the Facebook Analog Research Lab and its Designer-in-Residence program, which was established in 2016, to put ideas, critical questions, and visual interventions into the spaces that people inhabit.
See how these hand-crafted artworks are opening doors to new ways of looking at the world, finding community, inviting dialog, and creating positive friction that meaningfully affects people. The works ask questions, intersect social values, and provoke important questions with the aim to open minds to new ideas and perspectives.
The show features work by Facebook’s Artists in Residence, including Elana Schlenker, Kaye Blegvad, Eddie Perrote, Luiza Dale, and others. The show is curated by Scott Boms, a cross-disciplinary graphic designer and printmaker, who serves as the global design lead at the Analog Research Lab, Facebook’s in-house design and art making studio.
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.
Facebook Analog Research Lab:
Instagram: @analoglab
Facebook: @analoglab
Website: http://scottboms.com
Instagram: @scottboms
Twitter: @scottboms
Facebook: @scottboms

Arabic Lettering Workshop | Episode 12: New York, New York
2019-02-02 09:00 - 17:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
ALW is a series of workshops about Arabic lettering. Every episode takes on a different theme. This episode at TDC will explore the vernacular aesthetics of New York. The participants will select important public signs from New York and will proceed to create the Arabic counterpart. No previous experience in Arabic lettering is necessary, and beginners are welcomed to join in this day of drawing, design, and cultural exchange! Through the process, the participants will learn about the main parameters that define the Arabic script and letterforms and play around with them to see the different results that can be generated.
Kristyan Sarkis is a graphic and type designer. He is the co-founder and managing partner of TPTQ Arabic type foundry and the co-founder of Arabic Type Design - Beirut, the first educational program dedicated to the subject. His work received multiple awards including the TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence in 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2017.
Wael Morcos is a graphic designer and type designer and a partner at the Brooklyn based studio Morcos Key. He is from Beirut Lebanon and received his MFA from RISD in 2013. Wael has been featured in Print Magazine’s 15 under 30, was named a Young Gun by the Art Directors Club and an Ascender by the Type Directors Club.
See more of Kristyan's work here:
Instagram: @KristyanSarkis
Instagram: @TPTQArabic
Twitter: @TPTQArabic
Facebook: @TPTQArabic
See more of Wael's work here:
Instagram: @waelmorcos
Instagram: @morcoskey
Twitter: @morcoskey
Facebook: @MorcosKey

Wael Morcos in his Brooklyn studio, Morcos Key.

Type ThursdayNYC @ Wix Playground
2019-01-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Wix Playground, 235 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10011, United States
TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly gathering of type geeks, this month held at Wix Playground. 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 – 9:00pm: Socializing & End of Event
Wix Playground is a space for all designers to experiment, to collaborate and to find inspiration. During the summer Wix Design Playground offers 40 students a chance to learn high-level web design from leading designers and professionals in a creative environment. Wix Playground Presents takes over the rest of the year with curated design events, workshops and hackathons for the local design community in NYC.

Viktor Koen Exhibition: Phenotypes
2018-11-15 09:00 - 2019-01-31 16:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
This exhibition explores the cross-section between typography and illustration, and features Viktor's steam-punkphabet works, his Sciphabet, the Artphabet designed for School of the Visual Arts, and many more inspirational creations.
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.
Viktor Koen is a regular contributor to national and international publications. His prints are exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. Clients include The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Nature, The Economist, TIME, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Fortune, Penguin Random House, TOR, Doubleday and Harper Collins.
Viktor serves on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at both graduate and undergraduate levels, and is SVA's director of the Illustration Residency Program.
See photographs of the installation at Type Directors Club on our Flickr site here.
