Neville Brody is coming to New York to speak on "Type and Time" as part of our TDC at Parsons program. Different eras, different societies, and different peoples demand different ways of communicating. As technology, tools, and tasks change over time, the languages we speak and the way we speak them need to evolve to … Read more
Now in its fifth year, the UK’s most popular web typography conference is returning June 29 to sunny, beautiful Brighton. The conference brings together experts from all aspects of web typography, including branding and editorial designers, web developers, visual designers, browser makers, and type designers. The idea is to provide the audience with a full picture … Read more
Type, drinks, and friends! The Type Directors Club invites members, its honorees, and the press to the private New York opening of: The World’s Best Typography: The 64 Annual Exhibition of the Type Directors Club. The exhibition features communication design and the selections from the twenty-first annual typeface design competition, 21TDC. Only winners of the … Read more
The Type Directors Club and the Society of Typographic Aficionados are pleased to announce that lettering artist and illustrator Gemma O’Brien will be giving a special presentation on Thursday, August 2nd, as part of TypeCon2018 in Portland, Oregon. Join us in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Portland Downtown hotel at 7:30 pm and learn … Read more
Join us for a reception to honor the exhibition of work by the 2018 Ascenders, nineteen designers under the age of 35 selected by the TDC's Board of Directors to showcase their remarkable achievement in typography, type design, and lettering. This event marks the opening of the Ascenders exhibition, which will be on display at … Read more
Everyone is invited to come to Bridgeport to celebrate the opening of the annual design exhibition at Shintaro Akatsu School of Design (SASD) on the University of Bridgeport campus. The show features works by international designers who have been awarded Certificates of Excellence by the juries of TDC 63, the Type Directors Club international competitions … Read more
Design Incubation invites you to join industry professionals and design educators for a panel discussion on creating effective design portfolios. We will explore the role portfolios play in a successful design career now and in the future and will ask, are traditional portfolios still relevant? If so, what does a successful portfolio look like and … Read more
TDC and Legacy of Letters are returning to Brooklyn for the first walk in the borough since 2015. This time the focus will be on a group of neighborhoods in the heart of Brooklyn bounded by Church Avenue, Ocean Parkway, King's Highway, and Utica Avenue: Flatbush, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, Ocean Parkway, and Flatlands. It … Read more
The title of a movie is the first connection a viewer has with a film. From the moment a friend asks “Did you see that movie?” its title is the element with which your brain identifies the experience. But the look of that title its often relegated to a second plane. We believe that good … Read more
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
