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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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).
Join Adriana Longoria (2018—Monterrey, Mexico), Wael Morcos (2018—NYC), Fer Cozzi (2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina), for a conversation moderated by Gail Anderson
Join Loris Olivier, Mark de Winne, and Anthony Hos for a conversation moderated by Actual Source’s Davis Ngarupe and JP Haynie
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 […]