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Martina Flor—The Golden Secrets of Lettering

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

Talk and book signing! Martina Flor's new book, The Golden Secrets of Lettering (Princeton Architectural Press) is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to hand lettering. Martina shows readers how to transform their initial lettering concepts and hand sketches into a well-shaped, exquisite piece of digital lettering that can be sold and published. With a foreword … Read more

Ismar David and the First Hebrew Typeface Family

Ismar David was a prolific calligrapher, type designer, illustrator, architect and educator. From the 1930s until the 1990s, he lived and worked in Berlin, Jerusalem and New York and created a manifold of exquisite designs. His most important work is considered to be the David Hebrew Typeface family. It was the first of its kind … Read more

Underware: Enough is Not Enough

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

Underware’s work is among the most popular of independent type foundries — happy-go-lucky, high-quality, text-friendly typefaces for both display use and comprehensive typesetting. Underware’s typefaces stand out thanks to unique aesthetics and a considered collective presence. Underware is a refreshing and intelligent team who, while taking what they do seriously, manage to not take themselves … Read more

From Pentagram to Partnership: Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth

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

Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth are the founding partners of Standards Manual, an independent publishing imprint founded in 2014, and Order, a design office—both located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Reed and Smyth met at Pentagram while working under the direction of Michael Bierut for the last six years. They’ll be sharing what started their paths to … Read more

Hubert & Fischer: Boooooooooook Design

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

Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer, the founding partners of Hubert & Fischer, a design studio with offices in New York and Berlin, are coming to the Type Directors Club to talk about their passion—book design. They met at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany, where they had access to the school’s … Read more

Pablo Medina and the Story of Dekalb….

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

The Story of Dekalb (and other tales about the Brooklyn neighborhood that inspired Pablo A. Medina’s newest font) In 2013 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Pablo A. Medina began the four-year process of designing his latest font called Dekalb. Medina will tell the story of how the font was created by showing images of murals and signage … Read more

A Graphic Memoir?: Debbie Millman and Paul Sahre

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

Designer turned author Paul Sahre will present and then be joined by Debbie Millman and special guests John Gall, and Gabriel Levinson, to discuss Sahre’s new book Two-Dimensional Man, published by Abrams Press. They will talk about the highs and lows of committing to life as a graphic designer, the making of the book, and … Read more

Library Travelogue with Tobias Frere-Jones

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

This past fall, Princeton Architectural Press published Fifty Type Specimens from The Collection of Tobias Frere-Jones, a sampling from his library of 400+ type specimens. Tobias will recount the making of the collection and will give a larger tour of the library, examining specimens as expressions of type as well as artifacts of commerce and … Read more

Eye Magazine—>NYC: Eye 95 Launch with R. O. Blechman and Triboro

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

Join the Type Directors Club for a special NYC launch of Eye 95, the latest issue of the acclaimed independent, international review of graphic design. Part of the team behind Eye, Editor John L. Walters and Art Director Simon Esterson, will be on hand to moderate presentations by Brooklyn design practice and creators of this years TDC … Read more

DWIGFEST! A Celebration of Bruce Kennett’s W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design

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

Come help us celebrate the publication of Bruce Kennett’s W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design (Letterform Archive, 2017), the first comprehensive biography of this major artist ever to be published. Dwiggins (1880-1956) left a significant mark on the fields of type design, graphic design, and puppetry, but was also deeply interested in calligraphy, illustration, … Read more