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June 25, 2013
After the Jump: event rewind.
On June 7, 2013, we welcomed creative professionals to “After the Jump” – a day of ideas and inspiration presented by Sullivan and the Type Directors Club at New York’s Cooper Union Rose Auditorium. The question of the day? How are rapid advances in digital communications changing the world of design? Our notable panelists brought … Read more
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June 17, 2013
Designing Better Experiences in the Digital Landscape
This morning I’d love to point you in the direction of a great design event happening inNYC in just a few weeks. After the Jump: Designing Better Experiences in the Digital Landscape is a half-day symposium focused on various topics in digital design. The event was conceived and curated by Sullivan, an NYC brand engagement firm, and The Type … Read more
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June 17, 2013
Designers: Read the Writing on the Wall
In recent years, graffiti has enjoyed as near to mainstream appreciation as something that transgressive can get. However, much of that praise has been geared at graffiti murals and imagery, while tagging has taken a back seat, bearing more of a resemblance to vandalism than art. Tagging has been around in some form as long … Read more
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June 17, 2013
TDC Type-design Competition 2012
The Type Directors Club in New York City has been holding an annual competition for the best in typography (that is, the use of type in graphic design) since the 1950s. In 1997, James Montalbano and Paul Shaw founded TDC2, a second competition that dealt specifically with the design of typefaces. Together, they chaired the … Read more
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November 15, 2012
65 Fan Letters & Numbers to the TDC
Sixty-five designers created sixty-five numbers to honor the Type Directors Club’s 65th anniversary. They’re all available in a new book. BUY THE BOOK Here is what some of the designers had to say about their contributions: #4 — Ed Benguiat: “After days of sketching and drawing I hated everything I did. ‘Why did I even get … Read more
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September 21, 2012
Teaching Type Design with Fontstruct
An Interview With Donald Partyka Art Director Donald Partyka teaches typography, among other design-related subjects, in the Electronic Design and Multimedia program of the Art Department at The City College of New York. Last summer he tried using a new, free type design application called Fontstruct to teach his beginning typography students the basics of … Read more
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March 31, 2012
Maxim Zhukov. Modern Typography: Hi & Lo
In conjunction with the judging of the Type Directors Club’s Type Design Competition of 2012 (TDC² 2012) a special event took place on Thursday, 12 January 2012. The TDC Judges Night 2012 was a panel discussion with the judges Roger Black, Matthew Carter, Paul Shaw, and Erik Spiekermann. It was moderated by Maxim Zhukov, the … Read more
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March 5, 2012
In aedibus Aldi : Aldus & Co.
Through his scholarship and personal rapport with collaborators such as Erasmus, the printed books of Aldus Manutius (the Latinized name of Teobaldo Mannucci) found new markets in cinquecento Italy and abroad that went beyond the traditionally closed manuscript culture from which they sprang. Read more
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February 22, 2012
Get your hands on a copy of Typography 32
The Type Directors Club is proud to announce the publication of Typography 32. The latest Annual devoted exclusively to typography presenting the finest work in the field from 2010. Read more
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November 27, 2011
Meet the Judges of TDC58, the Type Directors Club Communication Design Competition.
The Type Directors Club competition is recognized worldwide as the premier typography competition. This is due, in part, to the esteemed judges that participate each year. This year is no different. It’s with pride and gratitude that we announce year’s list of judges. Read more
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August 5, 2011
Type Masters Week
From June 6 to June 10, 2011, the Type Directors Club and Font Bureau brought a week of workshops, lectures and a medal to New York City. The week started with Erik Spiekermann receiving the TDC medal. On Tuesday Erik Spiekermann’s workshop was about “What makes a good typeface?”, on Wednesday Cyrus Highsmith “Thinking in … Read more
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May 31, 2011
The Type Directors Club travelling show recently opened at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The 56th International Typographic Exhibition featured all of the 242 winning entries including printed matter, packaging, logos, fonts and movie titles. Entries come from 20 countries including, US, England, Germany, Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands. The exhibition was sponsored by Richard Moore Associates in cooperation with FPT Arena and … Read more
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April 8, 2011
Kurt Weidemann, 1926–2011
Kurt Weidemann, TDC member since 1966, passed away on March 30, 2011 at age 88. Kurt was one of the most prominent German graphic designers, working in his later years as a “one-man-studio” out of an old railroad signal tower in Stuttgart. After returning from army service during WWII, he finished a typesetter apprenticeship and … Read more
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October 30, 2010
Cooper Type Diary 1: The First Week
Type@Cooper is the first postgraduate typeface design certification program in North America. It was created as a collaboration between the Type Director’s Club of New York and The Cooper Union. The Cooper Union is one of the few free universities in the United States, and has educated design luminaries including Lou Dorfsman, Herb Lubalin, Milton … Read more
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July 14, 2010
Christopher Masonga’s donated Laptop
Whether you are a technophile or a techonophobe, there is no getting around the fact that a computer is an essential design tool in the 21st century. It is hard to imagine a designer working without one. Which brings us to the only recipient of a Type Directors Club scholarship in Africa. Christopher Masonga was … Read more
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May 3, 2010
Nicolas Jenson’s Typographic Contributions
Jenson’s type has been used continuously since its design in 1470: it has proven its worthiness through many interpretations. Some of Jenson’s offspring are Golden (Morris, 1890), Kennerly (Goudy, 1911), Cloister Old Style (Benton, 1913), Centaur (Rogers, 1915), and Berkeley Oldstyle (Goudy, 1938). Read more
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May 3, 2010
Video Review: TDC library gets Frederic W. Goudy home movies
A videotape appeared in the TDC mail recently from Elizabeth S. Manion, the director of the Marlboro Free Library in Marlboro, New York. Read more
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December 29, 2009
Interviews with former TDC Scholarship recipients
We tracked down some former scholarship recipients to see where their talents have taken them, and learn how the TDC was able to contribute to their career development in a small way. Read more
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November 3, 2009
Glyphs: a new font editor now in public beta
Glyphs is a new font editor for the Mac, in public beta testing right now. One of Glyphs major advantages is that it allows live testing of the font in the context of real words. This may make the time-consuming process of setting up kerning a little easier. Read more
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November 3, 2009
A giant step for typography on the Web
There is a buzz in the typographic and design communities right now about Web font embedding. The recently released version of CSS (cascading style sheets) includes an @font-face tag, which allows Web pages to use any truetype or opentype font. Read more
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April 25, 2009
Typographer's Typography
The Type Directors Club has been advancing and preserving the best of typography for over 60 years. That’s a long time. Typography, the TDC annual, is testimony to the remarkable evolution of style and technology in our profession—from modernism to mashups, from metal type to Minion Pro, from bookplates to broadband. If the last 5000 … Read more
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February 16, 2009
Type Nouveau
Approaching the art of typography as a graphic designer and illustrator, I am naturally drawn towards more decorative fonts and unique typography. Generally elaborate, one-of-a-kind, designed by hand and finished on the computer, I call this style ‘Type Nouveau’. There seems to be a steady increase of young graphic designers that are also drawn to … Read more
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January 29, 2009
Do we need more fonts?
One of the things I have struggled with as a type designer is explaining what I do for a living. This was especially true when I was starting out. I might be at a party with my girlfriend, now my wife, and we would be meeting some new people for the first time. Read more
