Type Directors Club

Ross MacDonald: Brightwork Press
2020-06-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join author, illustrator, and designer Ross MacDonald as we tour his Brightwork Press studio and letterpress shop in Connecticut. On view will be Ross’ extensive collection of wood type, dating back to the some of the earliest cut by hand, as well as examples of period props that he has made, printed, and designed for over 90 movies and television series.
For many years, Ross MacDonald has been a contributor to periodicals like Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, and Rolling Stone, creating illustrations and writing humor pieces.
Yet all the while he has led a secret double life designing and fabricating props for over 90 movies and television series. He has made everything from the book Bradley Cooper’s character throws out the window in Silver Linings Playbook, to the titular Book of Secrets for the second National Treasure movie; Jennifer Lawrence’s mop patents for Joy; baby’s favorite book in Baby’s Day Out; Nucky Thompson’s passport and Arnold Rothstein’s calling card for Boardwalk Empire; the morgue toe-tags in The Knick; the Pawnee town charter for Parks and Recreation; the Red Apple Tobacco tin in Tarantino’s Hateful Eight; Versace’s book in the second season of American Crime Story, period newspapers and Hitler stamps for The Plot Against America, and thousands of other props.

Registration for this special event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Click on the registration link to sign up for this live Zoom webinar. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The event waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
The start time for the live event is:
10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)
1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
7:00pm Berlin/Madrid/Milan/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Jerusalem (GST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland

Ross MacDonald has authored and illustrated four children’s books, as well as the adult humor books In and Out with Dick and Jane, (with co-author James Victore) and What Would Jesus Craft?
Born and raised in the backwoods of Canada, he lived for many years in New York City before finally washing up on the bucolic shores of Connecticut.
See photos of his 2018 exhibition at Type Directors Club here.

Angelina Lippert: Poster House New York
2020-06-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join Poster House Chief Curator, Angelina Lippert, as she talks about the history of the PSA (Public Service Announcement) poster. From Tuberculosis to Loose Lips Sink Ships, Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires to Silence = Death, she'll explore a wide array of topics and methods that have been used to disseminate information to the public for the greater good. She'll start her talk with a brief introduction to Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the art and history of the poster.
Angelina holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in theology and art history from Smith College. Prior to working at Poster House, Angelina served ten years as a poster specialist at a leading New York City leading auction house. She has produced dozens of auction catalogs and articles, as well as The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA and The Cooper Union. She is a member of AAM, AAMC, AIGA, and is on the Board of Directors for The Ephemera Society of America. Her research interests include German Expressionism, Soviet film posters, and the history of food and wine in advertising.
About Poster House
Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters. Through exhibitions, events, and publications, the museum presents a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s to their present-day use. Poster House takes its mission from the medium, aiming to engage and educate all audiences as it investigates large-format graphic design and its public impact.
Poster House was founded in 2015 with an eye towards filling a long-acknowledged gap in the New York cultural landscape. While there are several poster museums around the world, New York, with its long relationship with advertising and design, did not have such a dedicated public institution. After several years of planning and construction, Poster House opened its doors on June 20, 2019.

Registration for this special event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets to the TDC Virtual Salons are free to members, and available to nonmembers for a suggested donation of ten dollars.
Click on the registration link to sign up for this live Zoom webinar via Eventbrite. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The event waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
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7:00pm Berlin/Madrid/Milan/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Jerusalem (GST)
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2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland

Brenda McManus and Ned Drew: L is for Labor of Love
2020-06-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
After their son was born in 2013, Ned and Brenda began to conceive of a meaningful purpose for the collection of type, woodblocks, and line-engraved images that they have been amassing for 20+ years. They decided to create a learning tool, a unique letterpress book of ABCs that took five years to make. The project combines many facets of their lives: family, teaching, letterpress printing, design, and collecting.
The project was born out of their shared passion for design, a focus on typography, an engagement with design history, and an infatuation with letterpress artifacts. Ned and Brenda strongly believe in the preservation of a living history of letterpress, as there is no greater tool for teaching future generations of typographers about the craft and the value of hands-on work.
They also believe that it is essential to intentionally make space for those projects that are labors of love, projects that integrate play and discovery into the creative process, on personal terms. The freedom of those experiments is essential for creative growth.

Registration for this special event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets to the TDC Virtual Salons are free to members only. Non-members are asked for a suggested donation of ten dollars to help fund our free recordings of events and to grow typographic awareness. Donations of $1, $5, $10, or more are welcomed.
Click on the registration link to sign up for this live Zoom webinar via Eventbrite. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The event waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
The start time for the live event is:
10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)
1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
7:00pm Berlin/Madrid/Milan/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Jerusalem (GST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland
About the Speakers
Ned Drew is a senior faculty member within the Graphic Design Program at Rutgers University-Newark where he teaches design and design history courses. Drew was a member of the AIGA’s DEC Steering Committee and is the Founding Director of The Design Consortium, a student/teacher design studio.
Drew was the co-editor of Design Education in Progress: Volumes 1, 2 and 3 and co-author of BY ITS COVER, Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig and George Giusti: The Idea is the Heart of the Matter.
Drew’s work has been included in Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Graphic Design Referenced, US Design 1975-2000, Working with Computer Type, the AIGA’s Rethinking Design 3: Speaking Volumes, Graphic Design Solutions and Color Management. Drew’s work has also been recognized by the AIGA, the TDC, the IDA, the Art Directors Club, Creativity, the FPO Awards, the UCDA and the AAM as well as Graphis, Communication Arts, Print and How magazines.
Brenda McManus is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design in the Art Department at Pace University–NYC. Brenda’s research encompasses typography, integrating antiquated and contemporary technology and methods of making and collaborative design processes.
Brenda received her MS and MFA from Pratt Institute’s Graduate Communication Design Program and has experience in design research, design management, art direction, design writing and a passion for typography.
McManus is the co-author of George Giusti: The Idea is the Heart of the Matter. Her work has been included in Graphic Design Solutions, 4th Ed, Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 6th edition, Color Management for Logos and Color Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers. McManus’s work has also been recognized by the AIGA, the TDC, the Art Directors Club, the FPO Awards, Creativity, the UCDA, IDA as well as Graphis, Communication Arts, Print and How magazines.

Dylan Mulvaney: Typography—From Fixed to Fluid
2020-06-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
How have ideas about typography been shaped by culture and technology over the last three centuries, and what is Gretel’s approach today?
Dylan Mulvaney is Head of Design at Gretel. His expertise lies in translating core values, strategy, and voice into striking visual executions for clients like Vice, Netflix, Knoll, and MoMA. His work has been honored by the Type Directors Club, the D&AD, the Art Directors Club, and Fast Company.

Registration for this special event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets: Tickets to the TDC Virtual Salons are free to members only. Non-members are asked for a suggested donation of ten dollars to help fund our free recordings of events and to grow typographic awareness. Donations of $1, $5, $10, or more are welcomed.
Click on the registration link to sign up for this live Zoom webinar via Eventbrite. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The event waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
The start time for the live event is:
10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)
1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
7:00pm Berlin/Madrid/Milan/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Jerusalem (GST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland

Experimental Calligraphy Workshop with Yomar Augusto
2020-06-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join typographic artist and graphic designer Yomar Augusto for "Experimental Calligraphy," a 1-hour virtual workshop. Participants will be immersed into a series of exercises to culminate with the construction of a personal four-letter uppercase word.
Having taught for more than 15 years across four continents (Asia, Europe, South and North America), Yomar has the experience to help students cross the boundary to find their own calligraphic artistic voices. Raised in Rio de Janeiro, he studied graphic design and started his own studio there before pursuing and attaining a Masters in Type Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Yomar has also taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and the Bauhaus University in Germany, as well as at FIT and SVA in New York City. He has held multiple experimental calligraphy and book art workshops in many countries.
Tooya, Yomar’s progressive design and typographic studio, is currently based in California.
Materials and supplies you will need:

Different sizes of paper, of average household quality
Flat brush - small and medium in size
Pencil
Ruler
Eraser
Black liquid ink
Color liquid ink
A cutting tool
Something to protect your table surface

Registration for this workshop is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets to workshops are free to TDC members only. Non-members are asked for a suggested donation of ten dollars to help fund our free recordings of events and to grow typographic awareness. Donations of $1, $5, $10, or more are welcomed.
Click on the registration link to sign up for this live Zoom webinar via Eventbrite. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The workshop waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
The start time for the live workshop is:
8:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PDT)
11:00pm New York (EDT)
4:00pm London/Dublin
5:00pm Berlin/Madrid/Milan/Europe
7:00pm Jerusalem
11:00pm Seoul/Manila
12:00pm Tokyo
Follow Yomar Augusto:
Instagram: @yomaraugsto
Twitter: @yomaraugusto
Join Yomar's Facebook group

Jason Pamental: Better Type & Editorial Design w/ Variable Fonts
2020-07-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Part talk, part workshop—this event will introduce attendees to variable fonts (the latest iteration of the OpenType specification) and look at all the ways they can transform how we think about typography on the web. We’ll start with a showcase of the different kinds of standard and custom axes of variation, how they work on the web, and then look at ways they can transform how we think about what typography is, and how we practice it. Finally, we’ll take a look at how variable fonts can enable greater design flexibility and bring better editorial design to the web then you ever thought possible.
Jason Pamental is an internationally recognized expert on web typography and variable fonts, board member of ATypI, and Invited Expert on the W3C Web Fonts Working Group. Author of Responsive Typography (O’Reilly, 2014), articles for Print, HOW Design, TYPE Magazine, Net Magazine, Fonts.com, and publisher of email newsletter Web Typography News. He also travels the globe giving talks and teaching workshops on using type better on the web (over 100 events and counting).

Registration for this special event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets to the TDC Virtual Salons are free to members only. Non-members are asked for a suggested donation of ten dollars to help fund our free recordings of events and to grow typographic awareness. Donations of $1, $5, $10, or more are welcomed.
Click on the registration link to sign up for this live Zoom webinar via Eventbrite. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The event waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
The start time for the live event is:
10:00am LA/SF/Seattle
1:00pm New York (EDT)
6:00pm London (BST)
7:00pm Berlin/Europe
9:00pm Dubai
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland
Follow Jason here:
Twitter: @jpamental
Instagram: @jpamental

Lubalin Center: Japanese Graphic Design from the Archive
2020-07-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center, Alexander Tochilovsky, will discuss the history of the center and the evolution of its collection.
The talk will also focus on a few recent acquisitions of Japanese graphic design ephemera made during a trip to Tokyo. There is something magical about the serendipity of finding interesting ephemera, and even more so because of the stories and names they reveal. The talk will shed light on some wonderful objects and the designers behind them.
Alexander Tochilovsky is a graphic designer, typographer, curator, and educator, with nearly 20 years of professional experience, and 10 years of experience teaching typography. He graduated with a BFA from The Cooper Union, and holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is currently the Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. Since 2007, he has taught typography and design at the Cooper Union School of Art, and also teaches the history of typeface design at Type@Cooper, the postgraduate certificate program he co-founded in 2010.

Registration for this special event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets: Tickets to the TDC Virtual Salons are free to members only. Non-members are asked for a suggested donation of ten dollars to help fund our free recordings of events and to grow typographic awareness. Donations of $1, $5, $10, or more are welcomed.
Click on the registration link to sign up for this live Zoom webinar via Eventbrite. We suggest downloading the Zoom software prior to the start of this event. We will send you event reminders, but we advise everyone to connect a few minutes prior to the start. The event waiting room will be open 10 minutes ahead of time.
The start time for the live event is:
10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)
1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
7:00pm Berlin/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Dubai (GST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland
About the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
Opened in 1985, the Study Center was created at The Cooper Union in New York City in order to preserve an unprecedented resource: Herb Lubalin’s vast collection of work. Its goal was to provide the design community with a means to honor Lubalin and to study his innovative work.
Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is best known for his wildly illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact. The Study Center’s core collection includes an extensive archive of his work, including drawings, promotional, editorial and advertising design, typeface design, posters, logos, and other materials dating from 1950 to 1981.
The collection also includes work by other eminent designers including Otl Aicher, Anthon Beeke, Lester Beall, Will Burtin, Lou Dorfsman, Karl Gerstner, Tibor Kalman, Alvin Lustig, Elaine Lustig Cohen, The Push Pin Studios, Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Massimo Vignelli, and many more. There is also a library of books and magazines about design and typography, an extensive collection of posters, myriad type specimen books, and pamphlets within the archive.

TDC Letter Walk with Paul Shaw: Two Bronx Neighborhoods – Tremont and Belmont
2020-10-11 11:00 - 14:00 | To be announced prior to walk, New York City
The Legacy of Letters / TDC lettering walk returns to the Bronx this spring to investigate Tremont and Belmont, two contiguous neighborhoods in the middle of The Bronx. Tremont abuts Fordham University to the west and Belmont abuts Fordham to the south. These two neighborhoods are full of the usual lettering delights: public schools, convents and churches, graffiti, candy stores, movie theaters, dry cleaners, and funeral homes.
Belmont is known as the "Little Italy" of The Bronx. The stores on Arthur Avenue are famous enough to compel Manhattanites to make treks there to buy mozzarella, cannoli, cheesecake, and other Italian specialities. We will end our walking tour with a meal in Little Italy.
Paul Shaw has conducted regular walking tours of lettering in New York City since 2005 for the Type Directors Club and other organizations. He has also led similar tours of Boston, Buffalo, and Atlanta for SoTA (the Society of Typographic Aficionados).
Paul is the author of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System, which has been republished by The MIT Press this year. He has been a calligrapher for over 40 years and has designed 18 typefaces. He is the principal of Paul Shaw / Letter Design, and teaches calligraphy at Parsons School of Design and the history of typography at the School of Visual Arts.
Note:
This tour does not meet at Type Directors Club. Registered tour participants will be informed of the exact meeting place prior to the event.

How Type Drives Culture — The National Arts Club @ Home
2020-10-15 13:30 - 14:30 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Founded in 1946, The Type Directors Club celebrates and amplifies the undeniable power of typography. Charles Nix, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Club, will reveal how type and design connect people to ideas, culture, and each other. Using examples of type and design, he will illustrate how type styles define generations and bring people together by creating a universal language. Nix will select a particular font and review its origins, creation, and usage. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
This program is presented in partnership with The National Arts Club.
Please help the NAC support culture by making a donation with your registration. The NAC will share 50% of all donations with the co-presenting organization. The remaining 50% will support the NAC Artist Fellows program, helping to further the careers of up-and-coming artists.you contribute directly to the NAC Artist Fellows program, helping to further the careers of up-and-coming artists.
This program will be hosted via Zoom. You will receive additional details upon registration.

Simon Loxley: In Search for Emery Walker
2020-10-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Emery Walker (1851–1933) inspired and facilitated the private press movement and raised general standards in printing and typography – largely reflected through others’ work. Who was he, what exactly was his influence, and how was ‘the most lovable of men’ a protagonist in the bitterest dispute in typographic history?
Simon Loxley is a graphic designer and author of Emery Walker: Arts, Crafts and a World in Motion (2019), Type is Beautiful: The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts (2016), Printer’s Devil: The Life and Work of Frederic Warde (2013), and Type: The Secret History of Letters (2004). He designed and edited Ultrabold, the St. Bride Library journal (2006–2016).
INSTAGRAM: @sansserif_skyline
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Paula Scher — 25 Years at The Public: A Love Story
2020-10-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Poster House and Type Directors Club are celebrating world renowned designer Paula Scher’s new book: Paula Scher : Twenty-Five Years at the Public: A Love Story
Attend this virtual discussion with Paula Scher and have the opportunity to purchase a signed copy at Poster House Shop.
Twenty-five years of invention, regression, success, failure, getting fired, getting rehired, and redesigning a brand identity three times over. Paula Scher talks about how she’s kept the love alive during a quarter century of designing for the same client.
Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. She has been a partner in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991. 25 Years at the Public: A Love Story is her fourth monograph.
Read more about her lifetime of accomplishment here.

A *New* Program for Graphic Design with David Reinfurt
2020-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
A *New* Program for Graphic Design (Inventory Press / DAP) is a do-it-yourself textbook. Developed in classes for Princeton University liberal arts students, the book moves from Benjamin Franklin to Bruno Munari, Moholy-Nagy to Muriel Cooper and the Macintosh computer. Following a brief overview, David will present eight years of lectures sampled and compressed into one hour.
David Reinfurt is an independent graphic designer in New York. He is 1/2 of Dexter Sinister, 1/4 of The Serving Library, and 1/1 of O-R-G inc . Dexter Sinister is an art and design collaboration. The Serving Library is a publishing project. O-R-G is a small software company. David teaches at Princeton University.

http://www.o-r-g.com
http://www.servinglibrary.org
http://www.dextersinister.org
https://a-new-program-for-graphic-design.org

TDC Medal Presentation to Rubén Fontana
2020-11-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The Type Directors is awarding Rubén Fontana its coveted TDC Medal for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the ﬁeld of typography.
Rubén Fontana was born in Buenos Aires in 1942. He began his career in the Department of Graphic Design at the Instituto Di Tella, directed by Juan Carlos Distéfano.
He was one of the founders of the Bachelor of Graphic Design at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he founded the classes of Typography and Editorial Design. The curriculum of his course, published in Pensamiento Tipográfico, was used as reference for the courses in Typography at several universities in Latin America. At the University of Buenos Aires, he was also the Director of the Master’s in Typography.

RGD DesignThinkers Conference 2020 - Vancouver
2020-11-19 - 2020-11-20 | Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2P1, Canada
DesignThinkers, Canada’s only conference for visual communicators, is a must attend for any informed, forward-thinking creative, communications or marketing professional or team.
Confirmed speakers include:

Chris Do, Founder & CEO at The Futur
Christopher Doyle, Founder & Creative Director at Christopher Doyle & Co.
Blake Howard, Founder & Creative Director at Matchstic
Jessica Hiche, lettering artist and author
Irene Pereyra, Founder & UX Director at Anton & Irene

Registration is open here! RGD is offering Early Bird prices through October 23.
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers is a non-profit, professional association that represents over 4,100 design practitioners, including firm owners, freelancers, managers, educators and students. Through RGD, Canadian designers exchange ideas, educate and inspire, set professional standards and build a strong, supportive community dedicated to advocating for the value of design.

Creativity Around the World: New Business in a New Business
2020-11-19 11:00 - 12:00 | The One Club, 450 W 31st St, Floor 6, New York, NY, 10001, United States
The world changed in an instant, along with every single industry. Every city is in different stages of the virus. Listen to how some of the biggest names in advertising are adapting and adjusting to finding new business in a new business.
Part II of "Creativity Around the World" series hosted by The One Club for Creativity. TOCC Chairperson, Susan Credle will again lead the discussion.
Panelists:
Susan Credle (FCB Global)
Tosh Hall (Jones Knowles Ritchie)
Leeann Leahy (The VIA Agency)
Keith Cartwright (Cartwright)
John Steere (160over90)
Danny Robinson (The Martin Agency)
Ned Crowley (DentsuMB)
Registration on EventBrite
The One Club for Creativity members can register for free.

Me, My Dad, and Typography with Pragun Agarwal
2020-12-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Reflecting back to the origins of my journey with typography, when I began noticing my father craft each letterform, and not merely write words. Today, these early childhood influences have formed a repository of constant inspiration, and have helped push my practice further.
Pragun Agarwal is a Graphic designer who is currently based in Hamburg, Germany. A typography enthusiast, his work is inspired by constant experimentation with different materials, textures, and tools.

Meet the Judges, Part 1: 24TDC Type Design Competition
2021-01-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
TDC24 Judges Night w/Peter Biľak, Ryoko Nishizuka, Noël Leu, Agyei Archer, Nadine Chahine, and Sandra García. Moderated by Ksenya Samarskaya.
At this event, the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 24th Type Design competition will discuss their work, the state of the type scene today, and what they’ll be looking for when selecting the best type in the world. Join us for an evening of engaging conversation.
This year’s judges are:
Peter Biľak, Typotheque
Ryoko Nishizuka, Adobe
Noël Leu, Grilli Type
Agyei Archer, Agyei Design
Nadine Chahine, ArabicType
Sandra García, TipasType
Moderated by:
Ksenya Samarskaya, Samarskaya & Partners
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.
See also: Part 2 of Meet the Judges (January 7)

Meet the Judges, Part 2: TDC67 Communication Design Competition
2021-01-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Meet the TDC67 Judges: Jason Ramirez, Melissa Deckert, Leland Maschmeyer, Leandro Assis, Joyce N. Ho, Marta Cerdà Alimabu, and Jason Sfetko. Moderated by Juan Carlos Pagan.
At this event, the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 67th 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:
Jason Ramirez, Art director with Viking and Penguin Books
Melissa Deckert, Designer, Art director and Go-founder of Party of One Studio.
Leland Maschmeyer, Chief Creative Officer at Chobani
Leandro Assis, Artist, Art Director and Letterer
Joyce N. Ho, Independent Designer
Marta Cerdà Alimbau, Letterer, Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Jason Sfetko, Art Director in the global brand design team at Nike
Moderated by:
Juan Carlos Pagan, Sunday Afternoon
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Information Graphics: Sandra Rendgen & Julius Wiedemann
2021-01-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering the complex variety of data floating around us, sometimes the best—or even only—way to communicate is visually. Sandra Rendgen and Julius Wiedemann will discuss their new book, Information Graphics, which presents a fascinating perspective on the subject, highlighting the work of the masters of the profession such as Charles Minard, Aaron Koblin, and David McCandless, creators of breakthroughs that have changed the way we communicate. Information Graphics has been conceived and designed not just for graphics professionals, but for anyone interested in the history and practice of communicating visually.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Whatever Makes You Smile, Using Typography — Masashi Kawamura
2021-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
I will be speaking about some of my past work which utilizes typography in non-traditional ways, such as SOUR “Hibi No Neiro” music video (TDC Tokyo winner), androp “Bell” (TDC Tokyo winner) music video, and “T” Shirts (personal project).
Masashi is the Chief Creative Officer at Whatever Inc. He continues to explore creativity in a variety of fields including advertising, music videos, product design, digital installations, etc. He has been chosen as one of the Creativity magazine’s "Creative 50," and Fast Company’s “100 most creative people in business”.
TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact director@tdc.org to receive a free access code.

Talking Type with Saki Mafundikwa
2021-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join the brilliant designer, typographer, and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) for a rare lunchtime talk.
Saki is one of our esteemed judges for the 2021 TDC Superscript Scholarship for BIPOC design students, a $5,000 award for college juniors and first year master’s students.
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Genius on Display: Rush Jackson @ Poster House
2021-02-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster House, New York, NY, United States
This free program series is sponsored by Poster House CMYK Council, a working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Rush Jackson of Onyx Self-Imaging Labs for the inaugural event in our Genius on Display series. Genius on Display is a platform for spotlighting the expertise of BIPOC artists and designers within the context of Poster House’s exhibitions and permanent collection. Tonight, Rush will share their innovative work in publication and brand identity design in relation to our recent exhibition The Swiss Grid.
Rush Jackson (they/them) is an artist and independent graphic designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Moving fluidly between art and design-oriented practices, Jackson is invested in expanding the Black cultural lexicon through collaborative methods of production, such as graphic design and publishing, while maintaining an independent studio practice consisting of printed matter, painting, video, and installation.
In 2020, Jackson created Onyx Self-Imaging Labs, a full service, independent graphic design and art direction studio working with clients/collaborators in the arts and culture spheres, as well as prioritizing design for grassroots organizing and advocacy contexts. Recent and notable design projects include publication design for The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art & Fashion, To The Front: Black Women & The Vote, and The PhotoBook Review Issue 18, published by Aperture Foundation.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Learning the Rules is for Breaking the Rules: Ken-tsai Lee
2021-02-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Ken-tsai Lee is the founder of ken-tsai lee design lab/Taiwan TECH. He is the Taiwan representative of Type Directors Club NY and Taiwan representative of Art Directors Club NY. Ken-tsai is also Design director of Taiwan designers’ week.
See more of Ken-tsai Lee's work
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Genius on Display: Tré Seals @ Poster House
2021-02-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster House, New York, NY, United States
This free program series is sponsored by Poster House CMYK Council, a working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.
Poster House is excited to partner with Tré Seals of Vocal Type Co for the second event in our Genius on Display series, a platform for spotlighting the expertise of BIPOC artists and designers within the context of Poster House’s exhibitions and permanent collection. Tonight, Tré will share timely and thought-provoking work in typeface design in relation to our recent exhibition The Swiss Grid.
Tré Seals is the founder and type director of Vocal Type, the preeminent type foundry inspired by the lack of diversity in the graphic design industry. Each typeface highlights a piece of history from a different underrepresented race, ethnicity, or gender—from the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Argentina to the Civil Rights Movement in America and beyond.
Since its founding in 2016, VTC fonts have traveled around the world: from street murals and protest signs to census, voting, and brand campaigns for companies large and small.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Designing Type: The More I Learn, The Less I Know: Karen Cheng
2021-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Designing Type has been described as a highly rational guide to the anatomy of letters. In this talk, author Karen Cheng will explain her obsessive interest in dissecting type, and describe her efforts—both successes and failures—to create the “perfect” introductory course to type design.
Karen Cheng is Professor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Designing Type, which (as of October 2020) is available in a new, fully revised and redesigned edition.
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A History of Arab Graphic Design: Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar
2021-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
A History of Arab Graphic Design traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a field of graphic design in the Arab world. Examining the work of over eighty key designers from Morocco to Iraq, and covering the period from pre-1900 to the end of the twentieth century, Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar chart the development of design in the region, beginning with Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy, and their impact on Arab visual culture, through to the digital revolution and the arrival of the Internet. They look at how cinema, economic prosperity, and political and cultural events gave birth to and shaped the founders of Arab graphic design.
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Alphabet City: Adrian Wilson
2021-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Adrian Wilson will describe how has been combining typography and wordplay to anonymously transform New York’s street and subway signage into world famous tributes, from David Bowery to Aretha Franklin Avenue.
Wilson’s father and two older brothers were all renowned graphic designers in Manchester, England. Wilson chose to be a photographer instead and, despite amassing a unique vintage typography collection, spent 50 years avoiding the inevitability of his DNA. Text based street art was his anonymous release and after revealing his identity last year, he is now the most famous graphic designer of the Wilson family.
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The Search for Mies Typography: Branding 900 910 Lake Shore Drive
2021-04-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
These are questions asked by Sofya Karah and Dan McManus, Design Directors at The Narrative, while rebranding 900 910 North Lake Shore Drive, a pair of perpendicular glass and steel highrise buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. They will be discussing their research-based methodology, historical discoveries about Mies van der Rohe, and the design process behind the rebrand of these iconic buildings.
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Exploring Language, Politics and Typography: Kelly Walters
2021-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join designer Kelly Walters, author of the new book Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race, alongside design educators David Jon Walker and Shantanu Suman as they discuss the intersection of language, politics and typography in their design practice.
In this panel discussion, Kelly will share highlights from the interviews in her new book, and engage in a critical dialogue with contributors Shantanu and David about how handwritten calligraphy has the power to express necessary political truths and how Indian culture can be explored through Devanagari.
Together they will share where they find inspiration and how they have navigated the design industry.
David Jon Walker is a Graphic Designer and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He is also principal of Rhealistic Design, a design consultancy that is active locally and nationally. As a sought-after Black creative, Walker works with national political candidates, PACs, large non-profits, governmental entities, and varying businesses lending his talents to their marketing efforts to increase awareness and further campaigns. He examines social cues and the historical past to shape the aesthetic of his visual voice for personal lettering projects.
Shantanu Suman is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana. In a career spanning over seventeen years, Shantanu has worked in India and the United States as an art director, graphic designer, documentary filmmaker, and design educator. Shantanu constantly draws inspiration from his Indian roots and uses Hindi typography within his work to make Devanagari script relevant in the current design discourse.
Kelly Walters is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program in Parsons School of Design at The New School. In her independent design studio Bright Polka Dot, she works across platforms to create publications, exhibitions, and digital experiences for educational and cultural institutions. Her ongoing design research interrogates the complexities of identity, systems of value, and shared vernacular in and around Black visual culture.
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"Person Place Thing" with Gail Anderson
2021-04-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join us as Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen interviews the award-winning designer Gail Anderson in a live recording of the popular public radio series from the Type Directors Club.
Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director at Visual Arts Press at SVA. Anderson is a partner at Anderson Newton Design and serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS and the advisory board for Poster House.
She is the recipient of the 2018 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement and is an AIGA Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Anderson is co-author of 15 books on design, typography, and illustration with Steven Heller, and her work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Milton Glaser Design Archives at the School of Visual Arts.
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.
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