Ken-tsai Lee is the founder of ken-tsai lee design lab/Taiwan TECH. He is the Taiwan representative of Type Directors Club NY and Taiwan representative of Art Directors Club NY. Ken-tsai is also Design director of Taiwan designers’ week. See more of Ken-tsai Lee's work TDC Members get free access to this event! Contact [email protected] to […]
This free program series is sponsored by Poster House CMYK Council, a working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff. Poster House is excited to partner with Tré Seals of Vocal Type Co for the second event in our Genius on Display series, a platform for spotlighting the expertise of BIPOC artists […]
Designing Type has been described as a highly rational guide to the anatomy of letters. In this talk, author Karen Cheng will explain her obsessive interest in dissecting type, and describe her efforts—both successes and failures—to create the “perfect” introductory course to type design. Karen Cheng is Professor of Visual Communication Design at the University […]
A History of Arab Graphic Design traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a field of graphic design in the Arab world. Examining the work of over eighty key designers from Morocco to Iraq, and covering the period from pre-1900 to the end of the twentieth century, Bahia Shehab and […]
Adrian Wilson will describe how has been combining typography and wordplay to anonymously transform New York’s street and subway signage into world famous tributes, from David Bowery to Aretha Franklin Avenue. Wilson’s father and two older brothers were all renowned graphic designers in Manchester, England. Wilson chose to be a photographer instead and, despite amassing […]
These are questions asked by Sofya Karah and Dan McManus, Design Directors at The Narrative, while rebranding 900 910 North Lake Shore Drive, a pair of perpendicular glass and steel highrise buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. They will be discussing their research-based methodology, historical discoveries about Mies van der Rohe, and […]
Join designer Kelly Walters, author of the new book Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race, alongside design educators David Jon Walker and Shantanu Suman as they discuss the intersection of language, politics and typography in their design practice. In this panel discussion, Kelly will share highlights from the interviews in […]
Join us as Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen interviews the award-winning designer Gail Anderson in a live recording of the popular public radio series from the Type Directors Club. Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director […]
The Type Directors Club is pleased to present Type Drives Communities, an international conference exploring the ways in which people use typography to form and transform creative communities. Join us virtually on Friday, May 7 and Saturday, May 8, 2021 for two half-days of illuminating talks, presentations, and group discussion spanning design disciplines and local […]
Eric Widjaja founded Jakarta-based design studio Thinking*Room in 2005 after finding his love for graphic design in music and graduated from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. His work in telling a story with a clear voice and lasting characters through design, from working for brands to self-initiated projects, is established across the country […]