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September 2018
Brooklyn Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw
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 Brookly ... Read more
May 2018
Urban Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: From Canal Street to City Hall
This walk will look at lettering in a former industrial/commercial section of Lower Manhattan that has been undergoing a rapid transformation into a residential neighborhood for ... Read more
Creative Week Urban Lettering Walk: Garment District and Chelsea
This year's Creative Week Urban Lettering Walk is co-sponsored by the Type Directors Club, The One Club, and Legacy of Letters. Design historian Paul Shaw will walk participants ... Read more
November 2017
TDC Legacy of Letters Urban Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Upper East Side
We return to Manhattan for the Legacy of Letters urban lettering walk this fall with an investigation of the Upper East Side from 59th Street to 96th Street. The area encompasse ... Read more
October 2017
TDC Tour: Gone Tomorrow Pop-Up Exhibition and Poster House Preview
Join the TDC and Angelina M. Lippert, Curator at Poster House, for a special guided tour of Gone Tomorrow—a pop-up exhibition featuring posters from iconic venues and cult eve ... Read more
May 2017
Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Elmhurst and Corona, Queens
This lettering walk will take in two working class neighborhoods of Queens: Elmhurst and Corona. Elmhurst can trace its history back to the Dutch village of Middenburgh, establi ... Read more
Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Financial District
Rumors to the contrary, New York is not entirely a grid. The area south of 14th Street was developed before the the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 was adopted. The streets, like ... Read more
June 2016
A lettering tour of Newark with Paul Shaw
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Paul Shaw's lettering tours of New York’s five boroughs for the Type Directors Club, and the 20th anniversary of the Legacy of Letters ... Read more
Typographics Festival
TDC is a proud association partner of Typographics. Use this promo code to receive $50 off the ticket price TDC_2016 Typographics is an 11-day design festival devoted to contemp ... Read more
April 2016
TDC Type Walk with Paul Shaw: North Bronx
This lettering walk will take in several neighborhoods in the northern part of the Bronx, between the New York Botanical Garden and Westchester: Norwood, Williamsbridge, Wakefie ... Read more
