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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS: TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email [email protected] 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 […]
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS: TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email [email protected] 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 […]
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 […]