Everyone is invited to drop in at Type Directors Club in New York to see our new exhibition, Visual Memoranda: A Selection of Posters from the IBM Poster Program 1969-1979 through August 1. The decades following World War II ushered in an era of unprecedented growth for International Business Machines (IBM), as innovations in electronic […]
Type Directors Club thanks the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJITK) in Warsaw for this year's Polish debut of The World's Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club's 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition. Everyone is invited to attend the exhibition opening June 1 at 7:00 pm. The World's Best […]
Type Directors Club thanks The Cooper Union, Type@Cooper, and the Herb Lubalin Study Center for hosting the New York City debut of The World's Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club's 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition. Everyone is invited to see the exhibition through August 9. The exhibition […]
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 […]
Have a glass of wine and join the Type Directors Club board of directors in celebrating some of the best designers in the world: Daniel Brokstad (New York) Vincent Chan (Melbourne) Fernanda Cozzi (Buenos Aires) Sean Freeman (London) Ben Grandgenett (New York) Anthony Hos (Auckland) Ben Johnston (Toronto) Abraham Lule (New York) Loris Olivier (Geneva) […]
Congratulations to the Ascenders 2019! Come see their work! The Type Directors Club invites everyone to view examples of the work of ten young designers named Ascenders 2019, the result of a competition that received 130 entries by designers from 33 countries. See award-winning work by: Daniel Brokstad (New York) Vincent Chan (Melbourne) Fernanda Cozzi […]
School of Visual Arts presents Look Both Ways: The Illicit Liaison Between Image and Information, a new exhibition curated by Debbie Millman, chair of the MPS Branding program at SVA. This exhibition brings together a wide range of typographic work from 60 individual artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Paul Sahre, Carin Goldberg, Jenny Holzer, […]
TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts. The majority of the TypeCon program (see below) takes place at the Hilton Minneapolis from August 28th to September 1st in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consult the TypeCon program page […]
The Type Directors Club and the Society of Typographic Aficionados are pleased to announce that lettering artist and illustrator Juan Carlos Pagan will be giving a special presentation on Thursday, August 29th, as part of TypeCon2019 “Nice” in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Plus, a we are hosting a screenprinting activity with Facebook Analog Research Lab! After the […]