Type Directors Club

Me, My Dad, and Typography with Pragun Agarwal
2020-12-10 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.
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: Brightwork Press
2020-06-09 13:00 - 14:00 | 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.

Able Parris: Typographic Collage Workshop
2020-06-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Join Able Parris as he leads a hands-on workshop to explore cut paper collage using typographic sources. Whether you are looking for new approaches to your design practice, or would like to create original works of art, this workshop will guide you in the destruction and reclamation of various text-based imagery.
Able Parris is a designer, creative director, artist, and founder of WTF.studio. He has 15+ years experience leading teams to design global platforms, invent products, and launch brands. His collages have shown nationally, and have been published internationally. He designed the open-source intersectional symbol for equality, publishes an art zine called LookBook.wtf, and releases electronic music under the moniker Kamuter.This workshop is open to anyone, beginners and veterans, designers, or artists. Items you will need:

Magazines, books, or newspaper to cut up

Nice-to-have:

Plain paper
Scissors
Exacto knife
Cutting mat (or old book cover)
Glue stick
Tape
Straight edge
Something to protect your table surface

Bonus items:

Letraset
Vinyl alphabet stickers

Able online:

WTF.studio
Twitter.com/ableparris
Instagram.com/ableparris
Instagram.com/wtf.able

About This Zoom Workshop
Registration for this live Zoom workshop is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Click on the registration link to sign up. 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 (PST)
11:00pm New York (EST)
4:00pm London (BST)
5:00pm Berlin/Madrid/Milan/Europe (CEST)
7:00pm Jerusalem (GST)
11:00pm Seoul/Manila
12:00pm Tokyo

Anne Quito: On Writing "Mag Men" with Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser
2020-05-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Anne Quito will talk about her process of writing and editing, Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines, a book about the glory days of magazine design as told by graphic design legends Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard. For this special live event, Walter Bernard will join Anne.

For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders’ perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century. The authors look back on and analyze some of their most important and compelling projects, from the creation of New York magazine to redesigns of such publications as Time, Fortune, Paris Match, and The Nation, explaining how their designs complemented a story and shaped the visual identity of a magazine.
Registration for this special event is free to everyone, 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)
12:00pm Chicago/Minneapolis
1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
Spread from Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines
Anne Quito is a journalist and design critic based in New York City. A staff reporter at Quartz, her coverage underscores the design angle of politics and business news. She is the recipient of the inaugural Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary. A story she co-wrote about Emmanuel Macron’s symbolic presidential portrait garnered a Malofiej26 medal.
Anne graduated from Georgetown University with a master’s degree in Visual Culture in 2009 and is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts Design Criticism MFA where she wrote a thesis on the nation branding of the world's newest nation, South Sudan. Her writing also appears on The Atlantic, Works That Work, Metropolis, Architecture Digest Pro, Eye on Design, 99U, Designers and Books, Core77, and Intern magazine. She is currently working on Milton Glaser’s “last book.”

Armin Vit: A Real-Time Journey Through My .AI Files
2020-05-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Armin Vit will share his screen and take us through his logo design exploration process in Adobe Illustrator, demonstrating how he goes from crappy idea to less crappy idea to showable idea.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin Vit is a graphic designer and writer now living in Bloomington, Indiana. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration, a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Although he has written for most well-known design publications, Armin is most recognized for his writing on the blogs that make up the UnderConsideration online network—particularly Brand New, the popular blog for opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Along with his wife and partner, Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Armin has co-authored various books for publishers and for UnderConsideration and has organized multiple design events, including the annual Brand New Conference and bi-monthly Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness speaker series. Previously, Armin worked at the New York office of Pentagram and his professional experience stretches back to 1999. Since then he has become a popular speaker and juror for events and competitions around the world. When not working, he is either out for a run or washing the dishes.
Registration for this special event is free to everyone, 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)
12:00pm Chicago/Mexico City
1:00pm New York (EST)
6:00pm London (BST)
7:00pm Madrid/Europe (CEST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland

Online Archive Virtual Happy Hour with Letterform Archive
2020-05-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
On April 7, when Letterform Archive launched its Online Archive​, a free online resource to all who love letters, no one suspected that it would break the internet!
After one month, two server crashes, and over 200,000 hits, Online Archive continues to grow into one of the most comprehensive graphic design archives to focus on lettering and typography, and a powerful resource for students and professional designers.
On Tuesday, May 19, Type Directors Club invites the global community to celebrate this achievement with a special New York - San Francisco Zoom event where the team behind the Online Archive – ​Rob Saunders​, founder; ​Kate Long​, librarian; and ​Stephen Coles​, associate curator and editorial director – will present highlights from the nearly 1,500 objects and 9,000 hi-fi images housed online.
Rob Saunders, Kate Long, and Stephen Coles
You'll also have a chance to meet the Online Archive design/development team, including Murray Grigo-McMahon, the database prodigy behind the project, along with Jon Sueda and chris hamamoto who created the front-end design for the site.
Check out the Online Archive and come ready to ask them your questions!
Registration for this special event is free to everyone, 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:
12:00pm San Francisco/LA/Seattle (PST)
2:00pm Chicago/Toronto (CST)
3:00pm New York (EST)
8:00pm London (BST)
9:00pm Paris/Madrid/Europe (CEST)
11:00pm Dubai (GST)
3:00am Seoul/Manila
4:00am Tokyo
7:00am Auckland

Speakers
Rob Saunders, Executive Director, Curator, and Publisher​, is a designer, teacher, publisher, and management consultant, who has collected graphic design and letterforms for over 40 years. Rob began his career teaching at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University, while serving freelance clients and agencies, before founding a book publishing enterprise that included Alphabet Press (graphic design), Picture Book Studio (children’s books), and Rabbit Ears Books (book/audio packages), which was eventually acquired by Simon & Schuster. Prior to founding Letterform Archive, he served as a creative and marketing consultant with clients in the hospitality, technology, and financial industries.
Kate Long, Librarian​, has a profound interest in book arts, typography, and concrete poetry, stemming from high school where she made art with abandoned Letraset, and later as the editor of a literary magazine where she enjoyed working with designers, artists, and writers. She also gained an appreciation for 20th-century graphic design while at the award-winning studio, Office. Kate earned her MLIS through Drexel University, which will serve her well as she helps to preserve and catalog the collection. She relishes helping people access the things that interest them.
Stephen “Stewf” Coles, Associate Curator & Editorial Director, joined the staff after serving on the organization's Board of Directors since its inception. Born in Salt Lake City, he moved to San Francisco in 2004 to serve as FontShop’s creative director. He later worked as an independent consultant, connecting font makers with font users, and wrote the book ​The Anatomy of Type​. With his background in design and journalism, combined with an obsession for type history, Stephen is responsible for the online face and voice of the Archive, and helps to shape the future of the collection. He will continue to publish the influential websites ​Typographica​ and ​Fonts In Use,​ which will now frequently feature content from the Archive.
The design team – Murray Grigo-McMahon, Jon Sueda, and chris hamamoto
Murray Grigo-McMahon is a Brit who’s made his way to the West Coast via Sweden and Denmark. He trained as a graphic designer and quickly moved to digital in the mid ’90s, starting out as Penguin UK’s first in-house web designer. These days he looks after the product design teams over at NextRoll and spends his free time helping out with data intensive design projects and writing very bad code.
Originally from Hawaii, Jon Sueda has practiced design everywhere from Honolulu to Holland. After earning his MFA in Graphic Design from CalArts in 2002, he was invited to North Carolina State University to serve as a designer in residence, followed by an internship in the Netherlands with Studio Dumbar. In 2004, Sueda founded the design studio Stripe, which specializes in print and exhibition design for art and culture. In 2007, Sueda relocated to the San Francisco area where he served as Director of Design at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts for seven years, and is currently the Chair of the MFA Design program at California College of the Arts. Sueda was the curator of the exhibition All Possible Futures (SOMArts, San Francisco, 2013), and was recently selected as a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
chris hamamoto (b. USA, 1984) is a designer and educator based in Berkeley, CA. He holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts. In addition to teaching, he maintains an independent practice — pursuing his interest in how automation and algorithms affect social relationships and aesthetics — a topic he explores through graphic design, software design, and production. He has shown work and lectured internationally, and has been recognized by institutions such as Printed Matter, STA Chicago, the Walker Art Center, Hongik University, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
About Letterform Archive
Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community. Rob Saunders, a collector of the letter arts for over 40 years, founded the archive as a place to share his private collection with the public. Letterform Archive opened to visitors in February 2015 and now offers hands-on access to a curated collection of over 50,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design, spanning thousands of years of history.

Ellen Lupton: "Herbert Bayer: From Bauhaus to Madison Avenue"
2020-05-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
The Bauhaus was the world’s most famous art school, and Herbert Bayer (1900–1985) was its most prolific graphic designer. This talk, which features up-close images from the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and from the Merrill C. Berman Collection and Display, Graphic Design Collection, delves into Bayer’s unique design methods and the theories he refined and repeated over his long career. We’ll also dish about Bayer’s unusual relationship with modernism’s biggest power couple (Walter and Ise Gropius) and take a look at his connection to the Third Reich.

Registration for this special event is free to everyone, 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/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Dubai (GST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer, whose latest books are Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold, a feminist career guide for designers. Her book Design Is Storytelling was published by Cooper Hewitt in 2017. She is the founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she authored Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen. She received the AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is dedicated to all disciplines of design. It has a permanent collection of more than 210,000 design objects fully digitized and available online, including its collection of product design, decorative arts, works on paper, graphic design, textiles, wallcoverings, and digital materials.

Elizabeth Denlinger and Charles Cuykendall Carter: NYPL’s Pforzheimer Collection
2020-05-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Travel back in time at the New York Public Library where curators Elizabeth Denlinger and Charles Cuykendall Carter will show us some of the NYPL’s Pforzheimer Collection’s rich compilation of 18th and 19th century books and ephemera.
The Pforzheimer Collection was the creation of the financier Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), who took a special interest in the lives and works of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his contemporaries, including his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and such friends and fellow writers as Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, and Edward John Trelawny.
The curators will discuss and show us a wide range of collateral materials supporting study of this period, including biographies, criticism, political and scientific treatises, grammars, dictionaries, almanacs, topical pamphlets, and broadsides related to issues of the day. Because Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer of feminist thought, books and manuscripts we will be introduced to many lesser-known women writers of the period along with advice books, manuals on child-rearing, etiquette, domestic economy, and key proto-feminist texts.

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Curator Elizabeth Denlinger specializes in British Romantic literature, promoting this area through classes, publications, digital projects, and exhibitions, such as Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era and Shelley’s Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet.
Assistant curator Charles Carter processes and organizes the collection materials, and shares outreach duties with Elizabeth. He serves on the board of The American Printing History Association and is the Metadata Developer for The Shelley-Godwin Archive.
Founded in 1895, the New York Public Library is the largest public library system in the United States, featuring a unique combination of 88 neighborhood branches and four scholarly research centers.

Erik Spiekermann: p98a
2020-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom webinar, Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 10018, United States
To kick off our virtual salon series, everyone is invited to join us via Zoom webinar as longtime member, TDC Medalist, and former board member, Erik Spiekermann gives us a tour of p98a, his gallery and experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin.
Registration for this special event is free to everyone, on a first-come, first-served basis. Click on the registration link to register 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/Europe (CEST)
9:00pm Dubai (GST)
1:00am Seoul/Manila
2:00am Tokyo
5:00am Auckland
Erik and Lilith printing the “Orbit” poster for a client at galerie p98a
Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, type designer, and author of books and articles on type and typography. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. In 1979, he founded MetaDesign and in 1989, FontShop. He is behind the design of well-know brands such as Audi, Bosch, VW, German Railways and Heidelberg Printing, among others; information systems for Berlin Transit and Düsseldorf Airport and for publications like The Economist. The family of typefaces he designed with Christian Schwartz for DB German Railways won the Gold Medal in the German Design Awards 2007.
Erik is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and in 2003 received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in The Hague. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorship from Pasadena Art Center. He was made an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA in Britain in 2007 and Ambassador for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation by the European Union for 2009.
In addition to receiving the TDC Medal in 2011, Erik received the German National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Lifetime Award from the German Art Directors Club. He was managing partner and creative director of Edenspiekermann with offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Los Angeles until June 2014 when he moved from that position to the supervisory board. He now runs galerie p98a, an experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin.
Erik spoke about his career at the Type Directors Club 2017 conference, Type Over Time. See the video here.

Webinar: Technology and Heritage at CBA
2020-03-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
This event is the third in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts.
This evening will feature:

David Crossland, who will discuss variable fonts
Mamoun Sakkal, who will present "Calligraph, Type, Image: A Journey into Arabic Script.

For more on each of the speakers, click here.
The theme of the series revolves around concepts of modernity in Arabic type design, the heritage of Arabic letterforms in the context of current technologies, contemporary Arabic branding design, and the history of Arab graphic design. The series brings together renowned and award winning designers working with Arabic type, both from the US and the Middle East.
Since 1974, The Center for Book Arts has promoted active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. CBA achieve this through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting.
Support for​ ​The Center for Book Arts’ 2020 History of Art Series is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.

Cancelled for March - TypeThursdayNYC
2020-03-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly gathering of type geeks, held at Type Directors Club. We like to think of ourselves as a type superfamily: we attract local letterform lovers hailing from all disciplines and levels of expertise. Social hours bookend the centerpiece of our event, a group critique we refer to as Type Crit.
What the font is Type Crit‽
Briefly: It’s a critique. Of letterforms. No grades. Plenty of wine.
Verbosely: Type Crit is a group critique of up to four, in-progress projects involving letterform design and/or usage. You can get, give, or simply listen to feedback—your pick! Discussion is moderated by a TypeThursdayNYC dialogue lead—we pride ourselves on fostering a friendly forum for constructive, thoughtful advice that’ll raise the baseline on your letterform game.
QUICK LINK: Sign up to present work for feedback at Type Crit
What’s the program for the evening?
6:00pm – 6:45pm: Check in & Socializing
6:50pm: Opening Statements | Introduction
7:00pm – 8:00pm: Type Critiques
8:00pm: Closing Comments | Outro
8:10pm – 8:45pm: Socializing & End of Event

Postponed – Elliot Jay Stocks: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Typography but Have Been Afraid to Ask
2020-03-14 08:30 - 16:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
In this deeply detailed but varied all-day workshop, Elliot will cover a huge spectrum of typographic knowledge, from foundational best practices and definitions to the very latest techniques and technologies for setting great type across multiple media.
Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.
Read our interview with Elliot about his workshop here.
Website — https://elliotjaystocks.com/
Instagram — @elliotjaystocks
Twitter — @elliotjaystocks

Postponed - Elliot Jay Stocks: The (Really) New Typography
2020-03-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Screen-based design has grown up, but there's still so much to keep up with. Best practices for font loading. Licensing fonts for apps. OpenType Variable Fonts. The myriad of places to find new fonts. Elliot will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.
Read our interview with Elliot here.
Website — https://elliotjaystocks.com/
Instagram — @elliotjaystocks
Twitter — @elliotjaystocks

Postponed - With a Cast of Colored Stars - A Talk with Kelly Walters
2020-03-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, 10018, United States
In design, visual expression is informed by an understanding of history, language, symbols, patterns and image aesthetics. It is imperative that designers have a strong foundation in these areas in order to support the creation of culturally conscious work. Despite this awareness, there remain gaps in design history that neglect showing a broad spectrum of visual languages from the past and excludes discussions on how design has been complicit in forming and reinforcing racism.
Through historical archival research and the act of experimental printmaking, my research aims to highlight the linguistic phrases used in promotional Black film posters during the Jim Crow through Blaxploitation eras. By extracting typographic elements such as “an all colored cast” or “with a cast of colored stars,” Kelly Walters is able to closely examine examples of segregation while also re-contextualizing them for new alternative platforms. In looking closely at typographic details, language, and gestures, identifiable patterns emerge pointing to shifts in communication styles and cultural representation in this area of poster design.
About Kelly Walters
Kelly Walters is a designer and educator whose work investigates the intersection of black cultural vernacular in mainstream media. Her research practice is deeply intertwined with the molding and shaping of cultural identity, and an investment in making visible historical visual expressions that reclaim a Black voice within the field of graphic design. In her independent design studio Bright Polka Dot, she produces print and digital ephemera for publications, exhibitions and social campaigns. She currently is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York.
Website: https://brightpolkadot.com/
Instagram: @brightpolkadot

Contemporary Arabic Graphic Design at CBA
2020-03-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
This event is the second in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts.
The afternoon will feature:

Tarek Atrissi, who will be discussing "Branding with Arabic Typography"
Tala Safie will be presenting Haza al Massa (or Tonight), a documentation of the golden years of Lebanese cinema through posters, zines, press books, and film ephemera
Bahia Shehab, who will be giving a talk entitled "From Calligraphers to Type Designers: Arabic Script in Transition."

For more on each of the speakers, click here.
The theme of the series revolves around concepts of modernity in Arabic type design, the heritage of Arabic letterforms in the context of current technologies, contemporary Arabic branding design, and the history of Arab graphic design. The series brings together renowned and award winning designers working with Arabic type, both from the US and the Middle East.
Since 1974, The Center for Book Arts has promoted active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. CBA achieve this through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting.
Other events in the series are:

"Technology and Heritage" on March 19

Support for​ ​The Center for Book Arts’ 2020 History of Art Series is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.

Modernity in Arabic Type Design​ at CBA
2020-03-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
This event is the first in a series of three seminars in Arabic Type: Between Heritage and Modernity, dedicated to Arabic type design and typography, curated by typography expert Dr. Nadine Chahine for the Center for Book Arts.
This evening will feature:

Wael Morcos, with a talk entitled "​Right to Left: A Practice​"
Dr. Nadine Chahine discussing ​"The Politics of Arabic Graphic Design​"
Thomas Jockin, who will be presenting ​"Two Decades of Type Directors Club Award-Winning Arabic Typefaces​."

For more on each of the speakers, click here. An opening reception will follow the speakers.
The theme of the series revolves around concepts of modernity in Arabic type design, the heritage of Arabic letterforms in the context of current technologies, contemporary Arabic branding design, and the history of Arab graphic design. The series brings together renowned and award winning designers working with Arabic type, both from the US and the Middle East.
Since 1974, The Center for Book Arts has promoted active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary visual and literary arts, while being a model organization locally, nationally, and internationally within the field. CBA achieve this through exhibitions, classes, public programming, literary presentations, opportunities for artists and writers, publications, and collecting.
Other events in the series are:

"Contemporary Arabic Graphic Design" on March 7
"Technology and Heritage" on March 19

Support for​ ​The Center for Book Arts’ 2020 History of Art Series is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.
