The Type Directors Club is happy to partner with Kevin Bradley and Church of Type to offer a one-day workshop in Santa Monica, California. Enter Kevin's temple of typography on Thursday, December 7, and you will have access to a vast collection of wood and metal type, illustrations and woodcuts, and presses. Leave your computer … Read more
Crit club + Drinks + Fun, in New York City. TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly meet-up in New York City for people who love letterforms. The events feature networking opportunities and a critique of works in progress led by editorial designer Kara Gordon of Point5. Event Host Partner: #TDC | #TypeDirectorsClub December Foundry Spotlight: #Typoteque National … Read more
"The World's Best Typography" exhibition from the New York Type Directors Club (TDC) will be on view at 92 Lê Thánh Tôn in Ho Chi Minh City from December 8 through December 14. The TDC63 exhibition will include over 200 selections of winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface design competition and communication design … Read more
The TDC annual competitions highlight the best typographic work in both communication and typeface design from studios and individuals around the world. Our judges make it happen. Spend an evening with Gemma O’Brien and Sahar Afshar, two of our international team of judges for this year's TDC64 Communication Design and 21st TDC Type Design competitions. … Read more
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
Sorry, this workshop is SOLD OUT. Join Australian artist Gemma O’Brien at the Type Directors Club New York for a full-day workshop designed to teach participants lettering skills and techniques for large scale murals. The first part of the day will focus on two methods of letter creation: drawing and writing. Gemma will share a … Read more
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
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
Join Jason Fulford & Leanne Shapton for an informal evening as they talk about books they have made, both through their non-profit, J&L Books, and with other publishers including Aperture, FSG, Penguin, Phaidon and more. Jason Fulford is a photographer, editor and publisher. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a frequent lecturer at universities. Leanne … Read more
Che Douglas, Global Head of Design at The Wall Street Journal, will discuss the recent undertaking to simplify, standardize and modernize the typography of all WSJ brand experiences. Che Douglas was born in South Australia. He is a graduate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Che was the Founder and Creative Director of … Read more
