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SUMMARY:"She Designs Books" Exhibition at TDC
DESCRIPTION:Love beautiful book covers? See some of the best in the latest exhibit at Type Directors Club through March 26. \nShe Designs Books celebrates two years of recognizing women designers working in book publishing with a special exhibition at Type Directors Club.  \nFounded by Anne Twomey and Nicole Caputo\, the organization promotes\, supports\, and celebrates female designers creating memorable book covers. \nThe She Designs Books Celebrates 2 Years! exhibition\, on view through March 31\, features books and posters of the best-loved covers featured on the She Designs Books Instagram feed over the last two years. \nThe exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday\, 9 am to 4 pm by appointment only.   \nCall 212-633-8943 or email director@tdc.org for an appointment. \nSee photos of the exhibition here. \nThis show features work by 22 designers: \nRobin Biradello\nNicole Caputo\nCatherine Casalino\nDonna Cheng\nCassie Gonzalez\nKimberly Glyder\nOlga Grlic\nGrace Han\nJanet Hansen\nJan Heuer\nLinda Huang\nLaywan Kwan\nMarcie Lawrence\nJuliana Lee\nEmily Mahon\nAnna Morrison\nMumtaz Mustafa\nJoanna O’Neill\nJune Park\nAllison Saltzman\nNicole Seeback\nAnne Twomey\nRachel Wiley \nTo see more beautiful work\, follow She Designs Books:\nInstagram: @shedesignsbooks\nFacebook @shedesignsbooks\nTwitter @shedesignsbooks \nSponsor: A2A Studio Solutions
URL:https://tdc.org/event/she-designs-books-exhibition-at-tdc/
LOCATION:Type Directors Club\, 347 W 36th St Suite 603\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:NYC Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Erik Spiekermann: p98a
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nRegistration 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. \nThe start time for the live event is:\n10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)\n1:00pm New York (EST)\n6:00pm London (BST)\n7:00pm Berlin/Europe (CEST)\n9:00pm Dubai (GST)\n1:00am Seoul/Manila\n2:00am Tokyo\n5:00am Auckland \nErik and Lilith printing the “Orbit” poster for a client at galerie p98a \nErik 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. \nErik 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. \nIn 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.  \nErik spoke about his career at the Type Directors Club 2017 conference\, Type Over Time. See the video here.
URL:https://tdc.org/event/erik-spiekermann-p98a/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar\, Hosted by Type Directors Club\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Salons
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T130000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Denlinger and Charles Cuykendall Carter: NYPL’s Pforzheimer Collection
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nThe 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. \nThe 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.  \n\nRegistration 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. \nThe start time for the live event is:\n10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)\n1:00pm New York (EST)\n6:00pm London (BST)\n7:00pm Berlin/Europe (CEST)\n9:00pm Dubai (GST)\n1:00am Seoul\n2:00am Tokyo \nCurator 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. \nAssistant 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.  \nFounded 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.
URL:https://tdc.org/event/nypl-pforzheimer-collection/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar\, Hosted by Type Directors Club\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Salons
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SUMMARY:Ellen Lupton: "Herbert Bayer: From Bauhaus to Madison Avenue"
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nRegistration 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. \nThe start time for the live event is:\n10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)\n1:00pm New York (EST)\n6:00pm London (BST)\n7:00pm Berlin/Europe (CEST)\n9:00pm Dubai (GST)\n1:00am Seoul/Manila\n2:00am Tokyo\n5:00am Auckland \n\nEllen 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. \nCooper 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.
URL:https://tdc.org/event/ellen-lupton-cooper-hewitt-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar\, Hosted by Type Directors Club\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Salons
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T150000
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SUMMARY:Online Archive Virtual Happy Hour with Letterform Archive
DESCRIPTION: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! \nAfter 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. \nOn 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. \nRob Saunders\, Kate Long\, and Stephen Coles \nYou'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. \nCheck out the Online Archive and come ready to ask them your questions! \nRegistration 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. \nThe start time for the live event is:\n12:00pm San Francisco/LA/Seattle (PST)\n2:00pm Chicago/Toronto (CST)\n3:00pm New York (EST)\n8:00pm London (BST)\n9:00pm Paris/Madrid/Europe (CEST)\n11:00pm Dubai (GST)\n3:00am Seoul/Manila\n4:00am Tokyo\n7:00am Auckland \n\nSpeakers\nRob 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. \nKate 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. \nStephen “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. \nThe design team – Murray Grigo-McMahon\, Jon Sueda\, and chris hamamoto \nMurray 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. \nOriginally 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. \nchris 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. \nAbout Letterform Archive\nLetterform 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. \n 
URL:https://tdc.org/event/online-archive-virtual-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar\, Hosted by Type Directors Club\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Armin Vit: A Real-Time Journey Through My .AI Files
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBorn 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. \nAlong 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. \nRegistration 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. \nThe start time for the live event is:\n10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)\n12:00pm Chicago/Mexico City\n1:00pm New York (EST)\n6:00pm London (BST)\n7:00pm Madrid/Europe (CEST)\n1:00am Seoul/Manila\n2:00am Tokyo\n5:00am Auckland
URL:https://tdc.org/event/armin-vit/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar\, Hosted by Type Directors Club\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Salons
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SUMMARY:Anne Quito: On Writing "Mag Men" with Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nFor 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. \nRegistration 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. \nThe start time for the live event is:\n10:00am LA/SF/Seattle (PST)\n12:00pm Chicago/Minneapolis\n1:00pm New York (EST)\n6:00pm London (BST) \nSpread from Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines \nAnne 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. \nAnne 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.”
URL:https://tdc.org/event/anne-quito-writing-mag-men/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar\, Hosted by Type Directors Club\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Salons
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