TDC64 is on display at the Cantabria Central Library as the kick-off to the region’s fourth annual TIPOS graphic design competition, which takes place later this year.  This free exhibition has previously toured to Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, New York, Antwerp, Ontario, Saigon, and Auckland. TDC64's tour through Spain has included Barcelona, Sabadell, Soria, Madrid, and Amilla, Granada.

As part of TIPOS, this show is sponsored by the Government of Cantabria and the Santander Creative Foundation, the cultural foundation formed by the Santander Council, Cantabria Government, Fundación Botin, Banco Santander, Cantabria University and Menéndez Pelayo International University to promote cultural activity.

The exhibition displays typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, magazines, fanzines, multimedia applications, and animation pieces from many countries including the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.

Exhibition visitors can read about the book that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.

The exhibition features eighteen typeface design winners selected from over 225 entries from 39 countries. Review the list of award-winning typeface designs from 2018 here, and read more about these Judges’ Choices:

Gallery hours at the Library:
Mon-Fri from 9 AM – 9 PM
Saturday-Sunday from 11 AM – 8 PM

Join us for a convivial typographic evening with wine, hors d’oevres, two poster exhibitions with a curator-guided tour, and a silent auction.

There may even be a nerdy typographic game (we’re still working on the details).

Two dynamic exhibitions at Poster House will be open during the party and curator Angelina Lippert will lead a tour of the Ghana movie poster show, Baptized by Beefcake, during the party. Also on view are smart, passionate protest posters from the 2017 Women's March in Boston.

Entry fees and silent auction proceeds will benefit the TDC scholarship fund. Every year the TDC awards scholarships to seven outstanding students of typography.

We are excited to auction works by TDC Medalists:

As well as a private gallery tour by Poster House

Looking for a holiday event for your studio or office? Please email Carol Wahler, TDC Executive Director, to discuss group discounts, at director@tdc.org.

Doors open at 6:30pm.

Many thanks to our party sponsors:

Every year, the SASD Graphic Design department brings to the Schelfhaudt Gallery an extraordinary display of communication design, typography, and type design. This year is new and different in the best ways — new works by world-class graphic designers, new works by new practitioners of design working in posters, books, identities, interactive, environmental, editorial, and work by graphic design students.

The Schelfhaudt Gallery is open to the public Tuesday–Friday from 11am to 4pm, and on Saturday from noon to 4pm. The TDC64 exhibition will be on view until January 11, but visitors are advised to call ahead to make arrangements to see the exhibition on weekends and during the school's annual winter break (Friday, December 12, 2019 through Saturday, January 11, 2020).

This TDC64 exhibition opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut following the exhibition’s tour to Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, New York, Antwerp, Ontario, Saigon, Auckland and several cities in Spain, including Barcelona, Sabadell, Soria,and Madrid. TDC64 is finishing its tour at the University of Bridgeport, where the works become part of the SASD GD Archives.

The exhibition displays typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, magazines, fanzines, multimedia applications, and animation pieces from many countries including the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.

Exhibition visitors can read about the book that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.

The exhibition features eighteen typeface design winners selected from over 225 entries from 39 countries. Review the list of award-winning typeface designs from 2018 here, and read more about these Judges’ Choices:

 

Everyone is invited to the opening reception for TDC's 64th Annual Competition Exhibition, The World’s Best Typography at the University of Bridgeport.

The reception is open to the public, with a short panel discussion by fontaholics to start off an evening of a typographic feast.

Every year, the SASD Graphic Design department brings to the Schelfhaudt Gallery an extraordinary display of communication design, typography, and type design. This year is new and different in the best ways — new works by world-class graphic designers, new works by new practitioners of design working in posters, books, identities, interactive, environmental, editorial, and work by graphic design students.

The exhibition features over 265 works from the annual TDC Competitions in Communication Design and Typeface Design. The exhibit travels the United States and throughout the world to finish its tour at the University of Bridgeport, where the works become part of the SASD GD Archives.

The TDC64 exhibition will be on view until January 11; please check ahead on weekends and during the annual winter break (Friday, December 12, 2019 through Saturday, January 11, 2020).

Parking is available off of University Avenue or Ingleside Place.

Bvh is featured in The World’s Best Typography exhibition (TDC65), currently on display at Sheridan College’s Oakville, Ontario campus.

About Bvh

“In 2018, we were invited by the contemporary art centre Le Portique in Le Havre, France, to do a solo show of our work during the Une saison graphique graphic design festival. It was the 10th anniversary of the festival and also our studio. Time to look back on our working manner and give it a visual form for the exhibition poster. We are inventing flexible systems during our design process, are moving between disciplines and navigate fluidly through different supports.

Typography always plays a key element in our work. The design of the first three letters bvh, out of our studio name baldinger•vu-huu, reflects our flexibility, movement,and fluidity in the design process, while preserving the everlasting connection between us.”

Watch their interview at the Le Portique exhibition here.

Bvh on display at the TDC65 exhibition opening in New York at The Cooper Union.

Comments by Communication Design Judge Annik Troxler

I have chosen the poster bvh, because it is a fresh, unique, and excellent example of innovative type design. In its simplicity, it both bold and emblematic, clearly communicating the essence of its purpose. The three beautifully designed letterforms are rounded and sensuously fluid, filling the entire poster’s surface. It is not just the powerful presence of the image that attracts me, but also the elegance of the single blue color printed on white, with the black informational text acting as a counterpoint to the expressive shapes.

By combining the letters bvh in this way, the image references the studio’s name, baldinger•vu-huu, with its flexibility, movement, and fluidity throughout innovative design processes, while keeping the connection between the group's individuals.

The poster was created for a personal exhibition at Le Portique, the contemporary art center in Le Havre, France for the 10th anniversary of their studio. The duo stated as their work ethic, “We are inventing flexible systems during our design process; are moving between disciplines and navigate fluidly through different supports. This, I think, is exactly what the design of this poster reflects.”

About Annik Troxler

Annik Troxler is a Swiss graphic designer born 1979 in Willisau. She studied graphic design at the ECAL in Lausanne; now she works in the cultural field and teaches at the Basel School of Design. With a strong focus on content, narrative and visual quality, Annik Troxler creates posters and visual identities that use typography and images in unusual ways. Her design methods combine a significant use of playful techniques and experimentation but a strong connection to the minimalistic functionalism is still apparent.

Annik Troxler gives lectures and workshops in Europe and abroad and she has won several prizes such as in 2006 the Grand Prix of the International Poster Triennale of the Museum of Modern Art Toyama and the first prize at the International Poster Festival in Chaumont in 2007.

Annik Troxler: Website

September 20 – November 1, 2019. The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm by appointment only.

Call 212-633-8943 or email director@tdc.org for an appointment.

This exhibition celebrates the creative output of the 2019 class of the Type@Cooper Extended Program, which offers a Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design through the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club. Participants have been guided by top industry professionals at Cooper Union’s New York City campus on key typeface design principles — technique, aesthetics, expression, history, and theory.

Now you can see the results from this year’s group of designers…work by the following typeface designers:

Congratulations to all the graduates!

Take a look at the exhibition and close-ups of the work on our Flickr site here.

From October 1 to November 1, 2019, Sheridan College’s Trafalgar campus in Oakville is presenting The World’s Best Typography exhibition, featuring the winning work of the Type Director Club’s 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competitions.

The exhibition, sponsored by Sheridan College and the Sheridan Typographic Hub, is on view on campus until 10:00pm daily in the Sheridan Library Learning Commons — easy driving distance from Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo.

This year’s annual juried exhibition includes hundreds of works that features typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, corporate branding, logos, web graphics, film and TV titles, products, and magazines.

Professional and student communications design work from many countries will be on display, including the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.

Visitors will have an opportunity to experience the works up close, pick up the books, examine the exquisite bookbinding, touch the packaging, and look through the printed magazines.

This event is free and open to the public seven days a week. Parking at Sheridan is free on weekends.

Please contact Renée Alleyn (renee.allen@sheridancollege.ca) with any questions.

Read about the poster project from Brazil that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.

Read more about these Judges’ Choices, which are featured in this exhibition:

This TDC64 exhibition opens in Grenada following the exhibition’s tour to Tokyo, Seoul, Warsaw, New York, Antwerp, Ontario, Saigon, and Auckland. TDC64's tour through Spain has included Barcelona, Sabadell, Soria,and Madrid. Read about AAD's history with Type Directors Club exhibitions and watch the association's wonderful video tribute here.

On October 10, the final day of the exhibition, Estación Diseño and AAD invite everyone to join in, tour the exhibit, and take part in the closing ceremony.

The exhibition displays typography in a wide range of categories including books, posters, magazines, fanzines, multimedia applications, and animation pieces from many countries including the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, and others.

Exhibition visitors can read about the book that received the Best in Show award here, and the award-winning student work here.

The exhibition features eighteen typeface design winners selected from over 225 entries from 39 countries. Review the list of award-winning typeface designs from 2018 here, and read more about these Judges’ Choices:

 

Join designer, author, educator, and curator Debbie Millman and two artists from the New York typographic exhibition Look Both Ways, on view at the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery through September 21, for a behind-the-scenes look at how a curator produces such a lively, thought-provoking exhibition.

Exhibition installation, featuring work by Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez

Edel Rodriguez, who created a site-specific installation for the show and Cey Adams, celebrated OG street artist and designer, will join Debbie in a roundtable that will explore how an exhibition theme is brought to life, how artists were selected, and how exhibition design puts it all into context.

Work by hip-hop graphic designer Cey Adams

About Debbie Millman

Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters.

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, Seymour Chwast, Chip Kidd, Kim Gordon, Tim Goodman, Paula Scher, and more, from Millman’s personal collection and beyond. Look Both Ways is free and open to the public, and will be on view from August 24 through September 21 at the SVA Chelsea Gallery.

Look Both Ways showcases the many ways in which words, text, and information influence art, design, literature and music. Bold typographic expression has become the cultural currency of communication and the centerpiece of connection. Objects and experiences all around us now contain an inscription, an impression or a point of view.

“I am thrilled to partner with SVA to share this selection of typography works from a group of innovative and outspoken artists, several from my own personal collection,” said curator and MPS Branding chair Debbie Millman. “This exhibition is a stark reminder of the power language has to rule all facets of culture. These works will undoubtedly incite many passionate discussions.”

In addition to her work as an educator and leader at SVA, Millman is an acclaimed designer, writer, and strategist and has been hosting her Design Matters podcast for more than 14 years.

The exhibition, located on the 15th Floor of Manhattan's landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, is open Monday through Saturday (closed Sunday).

Everyone is welcomed to attend the exhibition reception on September 6 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, where there will be performances by selected artists.