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Exhibition Opening — Viktor Koen: Decoding Phenotypes

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Join us for an opening-night reception and talk at this Type Directors Club exhibition of the work of Viktor Koen, an award-winning artist, designer, educator and TED speaker. Exploring the cross-section between typography and illustration is fascinating, but often challenging to understand. Viktor Koen's talk for this exhibition opening will examine if this duality should … Read more

Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger: BEEF, PORK, LAMB, VEAL & TYPE

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger will unveil their signage & identity typeface design for the new Essex Market, and share the thinking and process behind it. While the building that will soon house the market is brand new (the Essex Crossing development on Delancey and Essex Streets, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan), this … Read more

TypeThursdayNYC (December)

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

It's fontastic & boldacious & x-heighting! It’s TypeThursdayNYC! 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 … Read more

TDC Judges Night: Karin Fong and Kristyan Sarkis

Parsons the New School for Design 63 Fifth Avenue, Room L105, New York, NY, United States

Two Judges. One Night. Karin Fong (Los Angeles) Founding Member of Imaginary Forces Emmy Award Winning Director TDC65 Communication Design Judge Kristyan Sarkis (Amsterdam/Beirut) Co-founder TPTQ Arabic Co-founder Type Design–Beirut TDC65 Typeface Design Judge Two esteemed judges of the Type Directors Club's competitions will present their work and their perspectives. Join them in conversation with … Read more

The Right Kind of Wrong: Inside the Facebook Analog Research Lab

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a talk by Scott Boms at the opening of our latest exhibition at Type Directors Club -- The Right Kind of Wrong -- Inside the Facebook Analog Research Lab. You'll get to see posters produced at Facebook's artist-in-residence program and find out why one of the world's largest digital leaders is hand-crafting … Read more

TypeThursdayNYC February

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

It's fontastic & boldacious & x-heighting! It’s TypeThursdayNYC! 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 … Read more

Timothy Samara: The Wheel Is Still Round: Renewing Focus on the Study of Form in Graphic Design Education

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

If graphic design is about creating and organizing visual form to communicate, why are design educators obsessed with everything except teaching about form? How did we become so distracted from what really matters? Provocative answers to these questions precede a prescription for effectively building students’ expertise in design’s core fluency. Timothy Samara is a New … Read more

Gloria Kondrup: FEMINAE, Typographic Voices: of Women, by Women

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Typography empowers communication whether it’s a hand-painted sign, a silk-screened message, or letterpress printed words. Gloria Kondrup will present posters curated from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics -- a selection that examines issues such as choice, gender inequality, war, and violence against women. Included are works by Barbara Kruger, … Read more

The Twilight of Letterpress: New York in the 80s

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

In the early 1980s Ron Gordon and his associate, Dean Bornstein, traveled around New York City to document the letterpress shops that were still in operation, including Bowne & Co., the Harbor Press, Pittsburgh Metal’s foundry, Peter Kruty Editions, Grenfell Press, Ron’s own Oliphant Press, and Charles Press (shown above). Ron and Dean interviewed the … Read more

David Berlow: Beyond the Quest for the Perfect Uppercase Partial Differential

Google 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, United States

This free event, courtesy of Google, will be streamed live from Google HQ in New York City on the TDC YouTube Channel: TDC YouTube The last 30 years has seen a great growth in generalized glyphs and styles. David Berlow's talk will show what happens to and for typography when we start to get more … Read more