Type Directors Club

Unknown Lower Manhattan | A TDC Lettering Walk
2022-10-23 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | To be announced prior to walk, New York City
Join the TDC and Paul Shaw for a walk through Lower Manhattan.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
There is an area of Lower Manhattan that has escaped the realtor's urge to name and identify. It is below Canal Street, east of Broadway (the common edge of Tribeca), west of Little Italy, and north of City Hall. It is an area that was changing rapidly before the Pandemic hit, with many shiny luxo-condos replacing decades-old manufacturing buildings and tenements. Much of its lettering is 19th and early 20th century in style: ghost signs, slab serifs, Tuscans, grots, Didones, etc.
This lettering walk is a chance to assess the damage, to see what gems still survive and what has been loast in the past half-decade. The walk will inevitably veer into adjoining neighborhoods and will end—for those staying throughout—with lunch or drinks in either Little Italy or Tribeca.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Paul Shaw has been leading urban lettering walks since 2005. Along with over 50 walks covering all of the five boroughs of New York, he has also conducted walks in thirteen other North American cities. Paul teaches the history of type at both the School of Visual arts and Parsons School of Design. With Patricia Childers he organizes the bi-annual Legacy of Letters tour and letterpress workshop in Italy.

REGISTRATION:
DATE: October, June 23rd, 2022
TIME: 11:00 am – 2:00pm ET
WHERE: Lower Manhattan (Starting Location TBA)
PRICE: $45 ($35 for Members)
This event is discounted for Type Directors Club Members. Members, please enter your email address in the promo code field to reveal discounted tickets

"Person Place Thing" with Steven Heller
2022-10-17 18:30 - 20:30 | The One Club, 450 W 31st St, Floor 6, New York, NY, 10001, United States
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Steven Heller's recent book GROWING UP UNDERGROUND : A Memoir of Counter Culture New York chronicles the first decade of his 50+ year career as an art director, graphic designer, educator and writer (of sorts). He is the author, coauthor or editor of over 200 books on popular culture through the lens of design, typography and ephemera. He was for 33 years an art director at the New York Times, around 30 of them at the Book Review section. He is the recipient of the AIGA Medal, National Design Award, inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame and was awarded two honorary doctorates. He has written obituaries and design columns for The Times, The Atlantic and Wired and writes The Daily Heller for Printmag.com. He is married to Louise Fili and they have one son, a filmmaker known as New York Nico
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers
Person Place Thing takes place in front of an audience, with live music, at a variety of venues and is then edited for broadcast across a 23-station regional radio network, and a dozen other public radio stations around the country. You can stream PPT’s archive at PersonPlaceThing.org or download episodes via iTunes.

REGISTRATION:
DATE: October 17th, 2022
TIME: 6:30 pm ET (Doors at 6:30pm, Program Begins at 7:00pm)
WHERE: The One Club for Creativity (450 W 31st Street, New York, NY 10001)
PRICE: $20 ($5 for Members)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please note that masks and proof of vaccination (or recent negative PCR test, within 72 hours) will be required for entry to this event. No food is to be consumed during the event.
This event is discounted for The One Club for Creativity's and Type Directors Club Members. Members, please use your associated email address as a promo code on the first page of registration.

TDC Ascenders Opening Reception
2022-08-16 18:00 - 21:00 | The One Club, 450 W 31st St, Floor 6, New York, NY, 10001, United States
ABOUT THE OPENING:
Join us to celebrate the winners of the third TDC Ascenders Competition and see their work on exhibit.
Ascenders is the world’s premier portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile forms, and the inspiring up and coming designers — individuals or teams — who are elevating the medium.
*Light food and drink provided

EVENT INFORMATION:
DATE: Tuesday, August 16th
TIME: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
WHERE: The One Club for Creativity (450 W. 31st Street, Floor 6, New York, NY 10001)

TDC68 Exhibition
2022-07-13 - 2022-08-04 | The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003, United States
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
After a two-year hiatus, the Type Directors Club invites you to join us at Cooper Union on for an exhibition of the TDC68 Communication Design, 25TDC Typeface Design and Young Ones TDC winners! This long-standing TDC tradition puts some of the most brilliantly designed use of type of the past year on display and encourages you to explore it all alongside other lovers of letterforms.

EXHIBITION DATES:
DATE: Monday - Thursday | July 13th - August 4th, 2022 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
WHERE: Cooper Union (41 Cooper Sq, New York, NY 10008)
REGISTRATION: No registration required, but please bring a proof of vaccination and identification to present to security.

TDC Lettering Walk—Midwood and Bensonhurst
2022-06-05 11:00 - 14:00
Join the TDC and Paul Shaw for a walk through Midwood & Bensonhurst in Brooklyn.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
This TDC Lettering Walk will mark a return to Brooklyn and a continuation of walk from 2018 that covered Prospect Park South, Flatbush and Ditmas Park. This time we will venture out further into the wilds of Brooklyn to Midwood, Bensonhurst and the smaller neighborhoods between them. These neighborhoods are very residential with parts of Midwood looking more like a quiet Midwestern town than part of New York City. Nevertheless, there are still enough commercial, educational, and religious buildings with examples of lettering to pique our interest and satisfy our craving for the unusual.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Paul Shaw has been leading urban lettering walks since 2005. Along with over 50 walks covering all of the five boroughs of New York, he has also conducted walks in thirteen other North American cities. Paul teaches the history of type at both the School of Visual arts and Parsons School of Design. With Patricia Childers he organizes the bi-annual Legacy of Letters tour and letterpress workshop in Italy.

REGISTRATION:
DATE: Sunday, June 5th, 2022
TIME: 11:00 am – 2:00pm ET
WHERE: Midwood & Bensonhurt (Starting Location TBA)
PRICE: $45 ($35 for Members)
This event is discounted for Type Directors Club Members. Members, please enter your email address in the promo code field to reveal discounted tickets

Ascenders: South Korea—Singapore—New Zealand
2022-04-22 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Join Loris Olivier, Mark de Winne, and Anthony Hos for a conversation moderated by Actual Source’s Davis Ngarupe and JP Haynie

Ascenders: Mexico—United States—Argentina
2022-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Join Adriana Longoria (2018—Monterrey, Mexico), Wael Morcos (2018—NYC), Fer Cozzi (2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina), for a conversation moderated by Gail Anderson

Adé Hogue Scholarship Deadline
2022-04-14 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
TDC will award the $5,000 scholarship to an outstanding BIPOC student who is a US citizen or in possession of a Green Card, and currently in their junior year of college or first year of graduate or postgraduate school in the US who demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication and promise in the design and creation of letterforms (typeface, lettering or calligraphy). The scholarship will be applied to the selected student’s final-year tuition that begins in September 2022 and concludes in June 2023. The jury will be announced shortly.
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Beatrice Warde Scholarship Deadline
2022-04-14 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
TDC has also opened the call for entries for the Beatrice Warde Scholarship, recognizing a female college student globally in their next-to-last year of undergraduate study whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography across current media. The $5,000 scholarship is open to students globally.
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Ethel Reed & Victorian Lettering with Paul Shaw
2022-03-24 18:30 - 19:30 | Poster House, New York, NY, United States
Join Paul Shaw at Poster House for an in-depth exploration of the hand-lettering featured in the museum’s latest exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. Take a close look at the letterforms featured in the show, and learn more about Victorian-era hand-lettering processes. Explore the classic letterforms and learn about the process of transforming the hand-drawn lettering into posters and other graphic materials. Questions about hand-lettering and typography strongly encouraged!
Members receive 20% off by entering their email at checkout!
This program is presented in partnership with the Type Directors Club.
This event is in person at Poster House, with masks required. Poster House operates in compliance with the Key to NYC mandate. All museum visitors older than 5 must show proof that they have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccination records and IDs will be checked upon entry. Proof of vaccination may include:

NYC COVID Safe app: Android | iOS
Excelsior Pass
CDC Vaccination Card (or photo of card)
NYC Vaccination Record
An official immunization record from outside New York City or the United States.

Valid ID includes your name accompanied by a photograph such as:

Driver’s license
Government ID card
IDNYC card
Passport
School ID card

The Victorian Letterforms of Ethel Reed
2022-03-23 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Explore the Victorian-era hand-lettering featured in Poster House’s latest exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property with type historian Patricia Childers. Take a close look at the letterforms this pioneering graphic artist used in her poster designs and the modern typefaces they’ve inspired, and hear about the processes and techniques used to marry the hand-lettering in seamless composition with Reed’s captivating illustrations. Questions about hand-lettering and the evolution of typography are strongly encouraged!
Patricia Childers, a NYC-based educator and designer, teaches graphic design, theory, and typography. She is an adjunct professor in the Communication Design Department of the New York City College of Technology, (CUNY,) and serves with Paul Shaw as co-director of Tipo, Cibo, Vino, a letterpress workshop in Cornuda Italy. Her practice, P Childers Design, specializes in typography, visual identity, and publication design.
This program is presented in partnership with the Type Directors Club.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please contact Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

Constructivist Letterforms in Early Soviet Movie Posters
2022-03-22 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Poster House is excited to welcome Misha Beletsky for an evening exploring the Cyrillic hand-lettering in The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s. Moderated by Chief Curator Angelina Lippert, this talk will examine how designers incorporated a variety of lettering styles into their dynamic movie posters, using them as both a means of communication and as graphic elements within the compositions. Questions about Russian lettering, typography, and poster history are strongly encouraged!
Misha Beletsky is the Art Director at Abbeville Press and the President of the Typophiles. He curated Russia Rising, an exhibition of protest posters at SVA (with Steven Heller), and I Make Posters Every Day, an exhibition of work by Peter Bankov at Type Directors Club. He often speaks on design and typographic history, including Russian Avant-Garde Books at The New School and on Russian Political Poster at TDC.
This program is presented in partnership with the Type Directors Club.

Type Design for Non-Type Designers
2022-03-11 09:00 - 2022-03-12 17:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Get a fun 2-day crash course in type design with Matteo Bologna (mucca.com) in a workshop from the comfort of your couch.
About the Workshop

March 11th from 9am to 5pm ET and March 12th from 9am to 5pm ET
In this two-day class, you will learn the basics of designing and generating a variable font with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only). Go beyond choosing the same typefaces from the type menu to creating your own!
In the Friday session, we will learn the basics of drawing a font, generate the font, and use it in an Adobe app or a web browser. In the afternoon, we will add additional letters to the font, learning how to space them, add diacritics and punctuation. (You can purchase a one-day ticket for Friday only).
On Saturday, we will design a bold version of the same typeface, create a variable font—and make it animate in a web browser.
Classes and workshops will take place over Zoom from 9 am to 5 pm EST with a 1 hour lunch break. A link to join will be emailed to enrolled students a day or two before the first session.
At the end of the class, you will probably not have a finished font, but a respectable start and a deep understanding about how fonts are made.
And maybe you’ll become a type design addict.
You have been warned.
This event is discounted for TDC Members. Email director@tdc.org for more details. You can purchase a one-day ticket for Friday only.

Required Materials

Get online with your Mac (macOS 10.11+, no Windows, sorry) and get Glyphs 3. The trial version suffices.
No prior experience is required in font design, but some experience with Bézier-based vector drawing tools is useful. (This means that you have familiarity with Adobe Illustrator’s Pen Tool)
Participants receive an extended trial license for Glyphs 3 and can purchase their own full license at a discount.

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, WeWork, Adobe Systems, Bacardi and Danone. With his team he designed the identities for a variety of classic New York City culinary destinations like Balthazar’s and Frenchette.
Matteo is a past chairman of the Type Directors Club and former board member of AIGA/NY. He frequently lectures and gives workshops about branding and typography around the world.

Type Drives Culture: The Next 75 Years
2022-03-04 12:00 - 2022-03-05 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Online at typedrivesculture.com on March 4th (12pm to 5pm ET) and 5th (9am to 2pm ET). General Admission is $100 ($85 for Members) and Student Admission is $50 ($45 for Members)
The Type Directors Club (TDC) is pleased to present the 2022 Edition of Type Drives Culture, an international conference that will explore the ways in which people use typography to form and transform creative communities.
In line with our 75th anniversary, this year's conference theme is Type Drives Culture: The Next 75 Years.
This year's event will feature:

20+ Main Program Speakers
5 Type:Seeing Tours
3 Roundtable Discussions on Type & Social Design, Emerging Careers in Type, and The Business of Type

Join us virtually on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5, 2022 for two half-days of guided type tours by city, illuminating presentations and roundtable discussions spanning design disciplines across the planet, featuring speakers from Austria to Zimbabwe. The conference will highlight how designers use typography to pursue a common purpose, establish intergenerational connections, spark and sustain change. How do these stories inspire us in navigating our world, our profession and make what we do relevant to our times?

How to Master the Chaos: Font Foundry Development Stages
2022-02-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
TypeType CEO Alexander Kudryavstev and Art Director Yulia Gonina will reveal they grew their type foundry and how you might grow yours too.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Congratulations! You’ve finally put in the courage and conviction to start your own studio! Now you just have to hold on for dear life to make sure it all doesn’t run away from you.
Luckily for you, TypeType CEO Alexander Kudryavstev and Art Director Yulia Gonina know exactly what you’re going through and have the typographical bumps and bruises to prove it.
Join us on Thursday, February 17 as Alexander and Yulia walk us through the growing pains of going from a dynamic duo to a thriving foundry of 32. Buckle in and you’ll learn this, this, and this, and by the end of it all , perhaps you’ll have a better sense of how to master your own chaos, whether you’re just starting out on your own, or have already amassed a few battle scars.
We'll have time for a live Q&A at the end of the talk, so that you can ask them about their journey and get advice on your own.
The TypeType font foundry team will tell you about the development stages of the company, the rapid growth from 2 employees to 32, and what font production problems we encountered and how we overcame them. Including:

Stages of TypeType's Development
Interesting Cases
Organization Problems and How They Were Solved

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Alexander Kudryavtsev, CEO
Yulia Gonina, Art Director

Keep Up with TypeType Foundry:
typetype.org
instagram.com/typetype.foundry
facebook.com/TypeTypeFonts

This event is free for TDC Members, please email director@tdc.org for an access code.

Let's Make Letters... Together!
2022-02-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Even when trapped behind our computer screens, typography behaves as if it were physical: it stretches, it compresses, it thickens, it thins, and animates. In this workshop, Kelcey Gray will guide participants in using paper, pencil, and scissors to draw type and build folded paper structures that will serve as scaffolding for typographic manipulation.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER:
Kelcey Gray is an Austin, Texas–based graphic designer who spends her time working with words and exploring the possibilities of typography and lettering. She is the author of Let’s Make Letters! and currently teaches design and typography at the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas.

REGISTRATION:
DATE: Friday, February 4th, 2022
TIME: 2:00 pm - 5:00pm ET
WHERE: Online
PRICE: $45 ($30 for Members)
This event is discounted for The One Club for Creativity's and Type Directors Club Members. Members, please email director@tdc.org for a discount code.

Meet the Judges III: LGC Judges Day
2022-01-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS:
TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email director@tdc.org for a code to reveal Members-Only Tickets.

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Meet the second half of the 25TDC Typeface Design Jury moderated by Ksenya Samarskaya, Committee Co-Chair.
At this event, the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 25th Typeface Design competition will discuss their work, the state of communication design and typography today, and what they’ll be looking for when selecting the best use of typography in communication design in the world.

Kostas Bartsokas
Martin Majoor
Daria Petrova
Ulrike Rausch
Kara Gordon

Meet the Judges II: Communication Design
2022-01-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS:
TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email director@tdc.org for a code to reveal Members-Only Tickets.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Meet the TDC68 Communication Design Jury moderated by Manija Emran and Joe Newton, Committee Chairs.
At this event, the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 68th Communication Design competition will discuss their work, the state of communication design and typography today, and what they’ll be looking for when selecting the best use of typography in communication design in the world.
This year’s judges are:

Antonio Alcalá (Studio A)
Philippe Apeloig (Apeloig)
Anil Aykan (Barnbook)
Götz Gramlich (gggrafik design)
Eva Kellenberger (Kellenberger-White)
Frith Kerr (Studio Frith)
Hassan Rahim (12:01 AM)
Mehdi Saeedi (Mehdi Saeedi Studio)
Emma Thomas (A Practice for Everyday Life)
Osmond Tshuma (Mam'gobozi)
Kelly Walters (Bright Polka Dot)

TDC members get discounted access to this event. Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.
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Meet the Judges I: Global Typeface Judges Day
2021-12-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Meet some of the 25TDC Typeface Design Jury moderated by Nadine Chahine, Committee Co-Chair.
This year marks the expansion of TDC’s Typeface Design Competition with 3 extra categories added for Arabic, Indic, and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) scripts. Each of these categories has 3 judges known for their expertise in that field.
Join us on December 9th to hear from our inaugural judges as they discuss how one can define excellence in type design in each of these 3 categories, if there is anything there that is unique to that script’s historical printing and typographic history, and to discuss the general state of type design at this point in time.
You can sign up for links to all three panels or join them individually (see ticket types). All events are FREE.

PANEL 1: CJK (9AM ET - NYC/10PM CST - BEIJING)

Kazuhiro Yamada
Minjoo Ham
Lisa Huang

PANEL 2: INDIC (10AM ET - NYC/8:30PM IST - NEW DELHI)

Kimya Gandhi
Neelakash Kshetrimayum
Anagha Narayanan

PANEL 3: ARABIC (11AM ET - NYC/6PM CAIRO)

Borna Izadpanah
Khajag Apelian
Mamoun Sakkal

Not Typecast: Two Women and their Typography at Mid-Century
2021-10-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
About the Event
Briar Levit and Anne Galperin will tell the stories of Ellen Raskin and Betti Broadwater Haft, two New York-based contemporaries: one an illustrator turned book designer, turned author and the other, a multidisciplinary designer who was one of the rare women to design a typeface for Photo-lettering Inc. These are just two of the many histories featured in the forthcoming book of essays, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History.
About the Speakers
Briar Levit is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University. She studied at San Francisco State University for her undergraduate degree in graphic design and at Central Saint Martins in London for her MA in Communication Design. Levit spent her early career in publishing as Art Director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture magazine as well as an independent book designer. Her self-initiated publications are walking books that challenge the existing hiking guide genre. More recently, Levit’s feature-length documentary, Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production (2017) which follows design production from manual to digital methods, established an obsession with design history—particularly aspects not in the canon. She currently co-directs The People’s Graphic Design Archive with Louise Sandhaus and Brockett Horne and has edited a book of essays debuting October 26th, 2021 entitled Baseline Shift: Previously Untold Stories of Women Throughout Graphic Design History.
Anne Galperin is an Associate Professor of Art, and Graphic Design program director at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She earned a BSc in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University, and an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Before entering academia, Galperin edited and wrote for the Macmillan Publishing Company, was a freelance writer and researcher, and designed books in-house at Chronicle Books. Her body of work includes book design for alt-press, museum, and art book clients, including Four Walls Eight Windows/OR Books, the Walker Art Center, and Distributed Art Publishers. Her essay about American Designer Betti Broadwater Haft is included in Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History, edited by Briar Levit and to be released in late October 2021
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

TDC Competition: Entry System Q&A
2021-10-27 00:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
About the Event
The One Club for Creativity has launched a brand new entry system for the TDC Communication and Type Design Competitions, and we'd love to share the new features with you.
UPCOMING SESSIONS:

October 27th at 9am ET (1pm GMT)
October 27th at 5pm ET (9pm GMT)

During this 1-hour live session with the TDC and One Club Team, you'll learn about:

Setting up your account
Managing your credits
Managing your media
New entry table functionality
Updated checkout process and payment options

Whether you're new to entering the TDC Annual Competition or you're a seasoned pro, this is a great opportunity for entrants to learn about what is new in our overhauled Awards System. We will include tips on managing your information and optimizing your entry flow, as well as leaving plenty of time to answer any questions you have!
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Type for Justice with Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid
2021-10-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Isometric Studio partners Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid will share their recent work at the intersection of typography, architecture, and social justice. This includes brand identities and exhibition design projects for major educational and cultural clients including Google, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Museum of the City of New York. The partners will discuss the opportunities and complexities associated with navigating this work as queer people of color, engaging with complex social issues including gender equity, climate change, racial justice, LGBT identity, and immigrant rights.
Studio Profile
Isometric unites graphic design and architecture to create empowering visual identities and spatial experiences. Based in New York City, we collaborate with leading cultural institutions, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits to reinvent the way they present themselves visually and strategically. We express the missions of these organizations through visual identities, exhibitions, websites, and signage programs that convey intellectual rigor, aesthetic sophistication, and memorable storytelling. We believe in design that transcends existing expectations by challenging cliches and stereotypes in visual culture. In collaboration with our clients, we shape narratives and spaces of belonging. Through design, we advance an ethos of inclusion, equity, and justice, centering the lived experiences of marginalized people.
Andy Chen studied sociology at Princeton University, where he was awarded the Pyne Honor Prize, the university’s highest general undergraduate distinction. He then studied graphic design at RISD, where he received his MFA as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. Andy started his career at Pentagram, where he worked on the rebranding of Bausch + Lomb with partner Paula Scher. As a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal College of Art, Andy conducted ethnographic research on aging, sexuality, and social stigma. He is a contributor to Design Observer, Design Taxi, and Open Manifesto.
Andy has spoken at international conferences including the London Design Festival, Design Indaba, RGD DesignThinkers, and Kyoorius Designyatra. He has served on the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art and the School of Visual Arts.
Waqas Jawaid received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Princeton University and a Masters in Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At Princeton, he was awarded the Frederick White Prize for his thesis on architectural apartheid in the Paris banlieus. Waqas previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, SANAA, Harvard Art Museums, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He is a founding organizer of Climate Collective, a NYC-based organization that sparks civic discourse about climate change through design and storytelling.
Waqas has lectured at venues including Harvard University, the Center for Architecture, and Princeton University Art Museum. He has served on the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art and the School of Visual Arts.
Website: isometricstudio.com
Facebook, Instagram: @isometricstudio
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Teaching Yourself Typeface Design for Non-native Scripts with Toshi Omagari
2021-10-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Typeface design is about drawing and spacing beautiful letters, which is not as straightforward if you are making one for a script you haven't grown up with. In this talk, Toshi discusses the ways to approach a new writing system without committing yourself to a university degree.
Toshi Omagari is an independent typeface designer in London. After graduating from MA Typeface Design at the University of Reading, he has worked for Monotype where he made typefaces for a variety of scripts including Tibetan and Arabic. He is the author of the Arcade Game Typography.
Website: tosche.net/fonts
Twitter: @Tosche_E
Instagram: @toshiomagari
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Design at the crossroads of the Old and the New with Gabriel Martínez Meave
2021-09-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
In this talk, G.M.Meave tells us about his work and influences, from his life-long fascination with ancient Mexican codices to his fondness of Gothic letterforms, and the challenges of being a designer at the crossroads of the old and the new, the functional and the ornamented, the indigenous and the foreign. How extremely divergent cultures such as the Maya and the Spanish strive to make a common, hybrid, contemporary visual language, and the ups and
downs of being a type designer in Latin America.
Gabriel Martinez Meave is a Mexican designer, calligrapher, type designer and illustrator, working in Mexico City. He has executed artistic, commercial and corporate projects for clients such as Google, José Cuervo, Corona and Kellogg’s. He has made illustrations and cover art for books by Cornelia Funke, Juan Villoro, Gabriel García Márquez, among other authors. He has won numerous awards from the TDC, the ATypI and a!Diseño. He is professor and lecturer at various universities in Mexico and abroad. His typefaces are distributed by Adobe and Sudtipos.
Website: meave.com.mx
Instagram: @gmmeave
Facebook: @gabrielmeave
Behance: @gmmeave
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

"Person Place Thing" with Bobby Martin Jr.
2021-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Join us as Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen interviews Bobby C. Martin Jr. in a live recording of the popular public radio series.

Bobby C. Martin Jr. is co-founder of Champions Design, a branding and design agency headquartered in New York City.
He sets the relentless standard of design and vision for the agency he founded, with Jennifer Kinon, in 2010. Together they have partnered with a wide range of clients such as Amazon, Apple, Dartmouth College, Girl Scouts, MTV, the National Basketball Association and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Martin recently illustrated his first children’s book “Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter” (Tilbury House). In 2020, he was featured in the renowned design publication, Eye Magazine’s iconic 100th issue.
He has lectured about brand identity around the world, sat on numerous awards juries, and has been a special guest on Design Matters, Design Observer and NPR’s Studio 360. Martin served as a board member of AIGA/NY from 2006-08, and the board of the Type Directors Club from 2014-2021. In 2019, Champions Design was named one of the 30 Most Important Companies in Design by Fast Company. Bobby Martin has won numerous international awards from the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, D&AD, and the TDC, among others. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts where he currently serves on the faculty.
Randy Cohen's first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, "Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything," was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they find meaningful. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing of particular interest to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers.

Lotus — the making of a magazine by and for Asian America
2021-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Tiffany is a Chinese-American illustrator and designer. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration and recently finished the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts. She is currently freelancing as a designer on the brand identity team at The New York Times.
Website: tiffany-pai.com
Instagram: @Tiffy_pai
Tiffany will be joined with her thesis mentor, Jennifer Kinon, founding partner of Champions Design. She is also a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Program and is president emeritus of AIGA/NY.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

TDC Scholarship Award Day, June 16
2021-06-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The TDC’s first female member, Beatrice Warde, was a journalist, scholar, and passionate advocate of education. Named in her honor and sponsored by Monotype, the scholarship recognizes one female-identifying college junior, whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography across current media, not just print.
The 2021 TDC Superscript Scholarship sponsored by Monotype recognizes BIPOC students studying type design at a college or university in the United States.
These two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded during the TDC Scholarship Day event.
Beatrice Warde Scholarship Committee

Gail Anderson | School of Visual Arts and Anderson + Newton
Deborah Gonet | Monotype
Shelley Gruendler | Type Camp
Ralitsa Debrah | Kwane University (KNUST), Ghana
Rathna Ramanathan | Royal Academy of Art
Fiona Ross | Reading University
Mariko Takagi | Hong Kong Baptist University

TDC Superscript Scholarship Committee

Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich | de Vicq design
Saki Mafundikwa | founder of ZIVA and author of Afrikan Alphabets
Nina Stössinger | Frere-Jones Type
David Jon Walker | Rhealistic Bobby Martin, Jr. | Champions Design

Additionally, the seven TDC Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each will be announced.

TDC67 and TD24 Judges Choices Announcement
2021-06-07 09:00 - 21:30 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
The One Club for Creativity is honored to announce the Special Awards and Best of Show Winners for the TDC Awards competition. Register for the free Award Stage during Creative Week. Click here to Register

Creative Week
2021-06-07 - 2021-06-11 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Connect. Provoke. Inspire. Get ready for The One Club for Creativity’s Creative Week - Online from June 7th - 11th, 2021. This year we’re featuring sessions including everything from Education to Inclusion & Diversity to Executive Leadership and beyond, along with our industry’s most coveted and respected awards shows, The One Show and ADC Awards. And we’re offering special programming during the week for creatives in different time zones, making it convenient for just about anyone, anywhere in the world. Plus you’ll find sessions devoted to wellness and networking, making it a truly interactive experience. Register now and join us with the rest of the global creative community.

Playing with Words, Playing with Type — Eric Widjaja
2021-05-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Eric Widjaja founded Jakarta-based design studio Thinking*Room in 2005 after finding his love for graphic design in music and graduated from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. His work in telling a story with a clear voice and lasting characters through design, from working for brands to self-initiated projects, is established across the country and internationally.
Ritter Willy Putra is an Art Director at Thinking*Room since 2017 with broad expertise from designing for brand identity, installations to publications. He embraces story in design from the largest to the minuscule detail. His notable projects go as diverse as developing sculpture design for the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta to designing for Indonesian unicorn e-commerce, Bukalapak.
Website: thinkingroominc.com
Instagram: @thinkingroominc
Facebook: facebook.com/thinkingroominc
Behance: behance.net/thinkingroominc
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.
