Type Directors Club

Porto Rocha
2023-03-03 18:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Porto Rocha, 75 Stewart Ave Unit 315, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, 11237, United States
PORTO ROCHA is a New York-based design studio founded by Brazilian designers and creative directors, Leo Porto and Felipe Rocha. Since its start in 2019 PORTO ROCHA has been developing creative and strategic work that engages deeply with the world we live in while working closely with people and companies to craft branding systems, products and experiences.

Tátil Design
2023-03-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Rua Fradique Coutinho, Rua Fradique Coutinho, Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
Come share a happy hour with us and let's talk about type and design! Subscriptions open!

Greco Design
2023-03-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Rua Rio Verde, Rua Rio Verde, 150 Anchieta, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil
Our home was built in the late 1950s, at the height of the Brazilian modernist movement. We revitalized the space while maintaining its original features, materials and finishing. As time has passed, we have acquired a selection of furniture from designers of the same period. All of this contributes to creating a unique atmosphere, which fosters relationships between people, reinforces existing bonds and contributes to new experiences.

Cha Che Chi
2023-03-03 12:00 - 2023-03-04 17:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
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The Cha Che Chi conference will be held online, on March 3rd and 4th, as a two-day showcase of presentations and panels on what’s happening in Latin American typography today. If you’d like to know more, to partner with or support the conference, or to feature us in your publication, please email info@tdc.org. We look forward to seeing you in March!

Advocating for Design with Emily Cohen — NYC
2023-02-23 18:30 - 20:30 | The One Club, 450 W 31st St, Floor 6, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Are your clients not seeing the value your creative firm provides? Do you struggle to communicate your value? Does this impact your team, your bottom line (i.e. clients taking advantage of your generosity), and your happiness at work? Our industry is at a value crossroads. Our clients don’t understand the value that design brings to their business while our competitors, colleagues, and even our own professional associations don’t always do enough to advocate for and communicate our industry’s value. We also contribute to this value challenge by not advocating for ourselves, which can result in our team feeling undervalued and disrespected. Does any of this sound familiar? In this talk, we’ll discuss the current state as well as the perception of our industry’s value and discuss how we all can better advocate for our profession. Let’s get paid what we’re worth and ensure the design industry and the people in it are valued for their incredible work!

As a razor-sharp business consultant, Emily Cohen has been honored to partner with 500+ leading creative firms worldwide. She has developed, tested, and refined key insights and strategies that have allowed her clients’ businesses to become more effective, profitable, and fun to work at. She is a designer by degree, an avid reader, dog-lover, a trend-spotter, a connection-builder, and an industry advocate. She is also a frequently-requested main stage speaker within the creative industry and has spoken at hundreds of international, national, and local conferences and events.

#TDC69 Type Design Judges Online Panel
2023-02-16 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
ABOUT THE EVENT
Meet three of the eight TDC69 Type Design judges: Naïma Ben Ayed, Kateryna Korolevtseva, and Parimal Parmar, and join the discussion on global type design today. Moderated by Kimya Gandhi.
ONLINE
Thursday, February 16, 2023
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

SPEAKERS

Naïma Ben Ayed is an independent type and graphic designer from France, based in London, UK. She holds a Master in “création typographique” from Estienne school (Paris). She set up her independent practice in 2019 after working for several years at corporate studio Dalton Maag (London, UK). Her work with different foundries and individuals in the art and cultural sector ranges from designing retail and custom Arabic and Latin typefaces to creating visual identities. Her approach to design is telling stories with letters. She regularly leads workshops and engages in the question of opening up Arabic type design pedagogy to broader audiences.

Kateryna Korolevtseva is an independent Brand Designer and Art Director from Ukraine. With a background in creative strategies, Kateryna is passionate about branding projects that have a deep focus on typography. One of her personal projects is Misto font, an homage to her hometown of Slavutych, a city that was born after the Chornobyl explosion. Kateryna gives public speeches at design conferences (e.g. Typographics 2022) and writes for Design Week, Alphabettes, Telegraf.design, etc. By sharing her knowledge about Ukrainian design, culture, and type design heritage, Kateryna strives to put Ukraine on the map in the design world.

Parimal Parmar is a designer based in India. His interests revolve around multi-script typeface design, identity and art. He has collaborated and published fonts with foundries like Typotheque and Indian Type Foundry. After completing his Master's from Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) in 2021, he resumed his research and design practices in New Delhi and continues teaching in various design schools across the country.
Moderated by TDC Advisory Board Member Kimya Gandhi.

Best-in-Show with Pentagram — Virtual
2023-02-09 11:00 - 11:40 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Want to know what it takes to get the coveted best-in-show prize in our annual competition? Last year, Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and Jonny Sikov took home this single coveted prize in their leadership on the International Center for Photography. Want to know what went into the project? Why the judges loved it as much as they did? What it takes to create, and submit, such stellar winning work? Have questions as you prepare your TDC69 entries? This is the place to ask—

Here’s what they had to say about the project: The new logo is a revival of the geometric monogram originally created by modernist design pioneer Arnold Saks for the announcement of ICP’s opening in 1974. No longer just a square, the updated mark can now be reframed into any aspect ratio and the three letters can appear in an infinite number of forms, reflecting the vastness of today’s image culture and the many ways that photographers frame our view of the world. The bold mark is set off by primary typography set in Publico, a serif typeface originally designed for newspapers and magazines, a nod to the relationship of photography and journalism. The identity framework has been extended to publications and promotional materials, the digital design of the website, and a system of signage and environmental graphics for the new location with custom icons built on the geometric shapes of the logo.

Moderated by TDC Managing Director Ksenya Samarskaya.

TDC69 Lettering Judges — Virtual
2023-01-26 11:00 - 12:20 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Meet three of the eight TDC69 Lettering judges: Hussein Alazaat, Huston Wilson, and Ximena Jiménez, and join the discussion on why lettering is having such a hot moment, and how it translates around the globe.

Hussein Alazaat is an Arabic calligraphy artist, instructor, multidisciplinary designer, and typography enthusiast from Jordan. He founded ALAZAAT Design Studio, located in Amman fulfilling his vision of offering his services to various clients and industries worldwide. Alazaat didn’t stop there, he continued to establish his cultural space ELHARF House in Amman, and he co-founded the social design initiative “Wajha” which aims to popularize the good design culture in the Arab cities.

Huston Wilson built up his repertoire as a self-taught letterer and graphic designer through his love of design and curiosity and the occasional YouTube tutorial. When he's not working with color, texture, and bold shadows, he adds African aesthetics to his work in homage to Johannesburg, South Africa, his hometown.

Ximena Jiménez, is a queer lettering artist and muralist from Cali, Colombia and actually based in Bogotá. Her path as a letterer started in 2014 in the academy while she was living in Buenos Aires, time she spent studying and learning all the rules and the formal bases around the letter. In 2019 she met graffiti and started a new pursuit for something freer and more personal in her graphic lettering style. Her work actually moves between the formal bases and their own deconstruction through constant experimentation around textures, irregular strokes, ink, spray paint and brushes, going from paper or digital in small formats, to big scale murals. Over the last years she has worked with companies like Facebook, The Washington Post, Adidas, Nokia, Adobe, Munsingwear Japan, and many others.

Moderated by TDC Managing Director Ksenya Samarskaya.

BranD Magazine Virtual Panel with Cheng Xunchang (程训昌) and Anuthin Wongsunkakon
2023-01-07 10:30 - 11:30 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Meet two multiscript TDC69 judges that traverse the globe, Cheng Xuchang and Anuthin Wongsunkakon! They’ll show some of their recent research and work, and join BranD Magazine in a short conversation regarding their outlooks on the current state of type design.

Multilingual typeface designer, documentary director. PhD student of Typeface Design, University of Reading, UK. Chinese Country delegate of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) and member of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China. Current research mainly explores the history of Chinese typeforms in the 19th and 20th centuries from the perspective of typeface designers. While studying the history of Chinese typeface design, I am also paying attention to the innovations of international typeface technology, variable fonts, dynamic fonts, and changes in the presentation of characters in different media. Regarding typeface design, I focus on Chinese and Latin text typefaces and bilingual design. I also give Chinese & Latin typeface design workshops for BA and MA students.

Anuthin Wongsunkakon (born 1973) is a partner of Cadson Demak, a communication design firm and the biggest type foundry in Thailand that specializes in Southeast Asian scripts. He has been known as the key person behind the long-running BITS, an international typographic conference to be held in Southeast Asia. He is also a co-founder of the CommMA international program at Chulalongkorn University. Anuthin and his team at Cadson Demak have been putting out work that is widely recognized by clients such as Monotype, Apple, and Google, to name just a few.

BranD Magazine Virtual Panel with Au Chon Hin and Li Zhiqian (in Mandarin Chinese)
2023-01-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Meet TDC69 judge, and Ascenders 3 winner: Au Chon Hin, who’ll be presenting and in conversation with Ascenders 4 judge: Li Zhiqian. (Please note that the panel is only in Mandarin Chinese.)

Au Chon Hin, is an acclaimed designer from Macau, who mainly engages in brand identity and visual identity. He is the founder and creative director of UntitledMacao and is known for his forward thinking and bold visions. His works utilize vibrant colours clashes as well as simple yet figurative lines to bring a new visual experience to his clients. Au was awarded the Medal of Cultural Merit 2021 by the Macau SAR Government, and his works have won many international design awards, including the ADC Art Direction Association Annual Award (Silver and Bronze Cubes), D&AD Awards 2022, Young Guns 17 International Youth Design Award, The One Show Awards, Tokyo TDC Annual Awards (TDC Prize), etc. Ultimately, he and Untitled Macao are committed to spreading Macau's brilliant design all over the world.

LI Zhiqian works in various fields with an interdisciplinary approach. He authored the book Xiwen Ziti de Gushi (Story of Western Fonts) and translated The Art of Calligraphy by David Harris, Never Use Futura by Douglas Thomas, Tokyo TDC Vol.32 by Tokyo TDC, Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton (to be published in 2023), etc.. He is a contributor and broad member of The Type, project lead of Shanghai Type and co-founder of 3type. His type works have won several awards including New York TDC’s certificate of typographic excellence in 2022.

BranD Magazine Virtual Panel with Halle Kho
2023-01-05 10:30 - 11:30 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Meet TDC69 Judge Halle Kho—Halle (pronounced like Halle Berry) is currently the Vice-President of Design at SAP. She is building and leading a remote global design team that will influence all aspects of product expression for SAP Design, with her practice area expertise includes Experience and Research, Storytelling and Strategy, Creative Direction and User Experience Strategy and Vision. Her previous role was Head of Design and Executive Design Director in the New York studio of frog, one of the world’s premier design consultancies. In that role, she lead the Design Research, Interaction Design and Visual Design disciplines in the studio. She was responsible for developing a cutting edge culture of Design, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mentorship Program and worked in tandem with the GM for the collaborative running of business, client relationship development and expertise advancement.

TDC x Poster House Holiday Party
2022-12-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Poster House, New York, NY, United States
Join us for everyone’s favorite design party featuring full access to the museum and Poster House’s current exhibitions, typographic raffle prizes from around the world, and free drinks for the first 50 attendees, courtesy of Work Type IPA and Ghia! Poster House and TDC Members get a 20% discount at the bar thereafter.
All are welcome with an advance RSVP. Proceeds from the raffle go to supporting our programming including Poster House educational outreach for school tours and TDC’s salons and scholarships.
Poster and lettering for this event created by Vera van de Seyp.
Drinks provided by Ghia, The Working Assembly, and others.
Prizes provided by WorldlyTypes and Poster House.

Type Drives Culture: Ezhishin
2022-11-11 - 2022-11-12 | Virtual (Link Provided Soon), Virtual, TBD
Ezhishin, part of TDC’s ongoing Type Drives Culture conference series, is co-curated by Neebinnaukzhik Southall (Chippewas of Rama First Nation), a graphic designer, artist, photographer, and writer who specializes in working within Indigenous communities, and Ksenya Samarskaya, the recently appointed TDC managing director.
The conference includes presentations and panels featuring prominent Native designers, as well as non-Native designers working respectfully with Native communities.

Unknown Lower Manhattan | A TDC Lettering Walk
2022-10-23 11:00 - 14:00 | 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 | TBD
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.
Learn More & Enter Now

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.
Learn More & Enter Now

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
