Past Events from December 10, 2020 – April 8, 2021 › Salons › – Page 2 – The Type Directors Club Past Events from December 10, 2020 – April 8, 2021 › Salons › – Page 2 – The Type Directors Club

Lotus — the making of a magazine by and for Asian America

Zoom webinar Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, United States

Tiffany is a Chinese-American illustrator and designer. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration and recently finished the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts. She is currently freelancing as a designer on the brand identity team at The New York Times. Website: tiffany-pai.com Instagram: @Tiffy_pai … Continued

“Person Place Thing” with Bobby Martin Jr.

Online Online, NY, United States

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, … Continued

Design at the crossroads of the Old and the New with Gabriel Martínez Meave

Zoom webinar Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, United States

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 … Continued

Teaching Yourself Typeface Design for Non-native Scripts with Toshi Omagari

Zoom webinar Hosted by Type Directors Club, New York, NY, United States

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 … Continued