Old letterpress printing equipment meets contemporary design thinking in the typographic posters of Swiss designer Dafi Kühne. This event is a one-evening presentation and reception at The Arm letterpress studio in Williamsburg (just off the Bedford Avenue stop on the L train). It is free and open to the public. Dafi Kühne is a Swiss … Read more
We are very excited to announce a trip to visit Lou Dorsfman’s Gastrotypographicassemblage at the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, New York. Nick Fasciano who worked with Lou to help put the wall together, and later, retrieved and restored it will be discussing the wall with us as we sit in front of it. Alexander … Read more
The Type Directors Club invites members, its honorees, and the press to attend a private showing of its sixtieth annual typography exhibit, TDC60, and the selections from the annual typeface design competition, TDC 2014. Acknowledgements, announcements of the Best in Show, Best in Show Student Awards and Scholarship presentations start at 6:30 PM. The exhibition … Read more
The Type Directors Club invites everyone to its sixtieth annual typography exhibit, TDC60, and the selections from the annual typeface design competition, TDC 2014. The exhibition runs July 17 through August 7, 2014. Open Monday through Thursday 10am to 5pm The exhibition is sponsored by Cooper Union.
The Type Directors Club will be sponsoring a special presentation by Brooklyn-based graphic designer and letterer Dana Tanamachi during TypeCon2014. Join in for an hour of light-hearted storytelling. Dana will share her story and perspective on how she used her day job as a platform for her dream job. She’ll also chat about embracing anonymity … Read more
Presented by the Type Directors Club The TypeCon2014 TypeGallery schedule Thursday, July 31st 9:00am – 5:30pm Friday, August 1st 8:00am – 8:00pm Saturday, August 2nd 8:00am – 5:30pm Sunday, August 3rd 8:30am – 12:45pm FREE and open to the general public.
The Type Directors Club opens its doors for an intimate, one-night only screening in celebration of the Sign Painters film. A follow up to TDC's 2012 "New Modernist Type" book signing, we proudly extend the invitation to view Faythe Levine and Samuel Macon's beautiful documentary on the big screen. There was a time, as recently … Read more
Bushwick has been gentrifying for several years as artists move to it from Williamsburg. Yet, the neighborhood is large enough that there is still much fascinating commercial signage, architectural lettering and vernacular writing to see. We will see former breweries and banks, churches (both defunct and functioning), public schools, barbershops and the usual auto shops. … Read more
The Type Directors Club invites you to showing of its sixty-first annual typography exhibit, TDC61, and the selections from the annual typeface design competition, TDC 2015. Acknowledgements, announcements of the Best in Show, Best in Show Student Awards and Scholarship presentations start at 6:30 PM. The first TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship will also be presented. … Read more
Famed American graphic designer and writer Abbott Miller, a survey of whose work was published in a beautiful volume last year by Princeton Architectural Press, will join Maryland Institute College of Art digital design MFA director Ellen Lupton for an exciting conversation on typography today. They’ll discuss both their work, as well as Ellen’s acclaimed … Read more
