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 tours of Italy, originally done with Garrett Boge but now with Alta Price. During these years Paul has taken photographs of urban lettering everywhere he … Read more
27th June - 3rd July 2016, London. This week long course has been created for people who want to learn more about the fascinating world of branding and typography and learn about best practices of using type in various areas of design; for those who want to meet in person legendary creative directors, who are … Read more
This year the Legacy of Letters will consist of a letterpress workshop combined with cooking lessons. Both will take place at the Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, just northwest of Venice, from July 9 to 16. The workshop—entitled Tipo Cibo Vino (Type Food Wine) will be led by Peter Kruty and Sayre Gaydos of Peter … Read more
The Type Directors Club invites members, its honorees, and the press to attend a private showing of its sixty-second annual typography exhibit, TDC62, and the selections from the annual typeface design competition, TDC 2016. Acknowledgements, announcements of the Best in Show, Best in Show Student Awards and Scholarship presentations start at 6:30 PM. The second … Read more
The Type Directors Club invites you to its sixty-second annual typography exhibit, TDC62, and the annual typeface design competition, TDC 2016. On view are selections of winning work the TDC’s annual typeface design competition as well as the communication design competition showcasing the best uses of typography in a wide range of categories including web … Read more
The TDC62 exhibition of the world’s best typographic design of 2016 is coming to TypeCon 2016, Seattle WA Presented by the Type Directors Club The TypeCon2016 TypeGallery schedule: Wednesday, August 24th 9:00am – 4:30pm Thursday, August 25th 9:00am – 6:00pm Friday, August 26th 8:00am – 6:00pm Saturday, August 27th 8:00am – 6:00pm Sunday, August 28th … Read more
The TDC62 exhibition of the world’s best typographic design of 2016 is coming to ATypI, Warsaw. It will include the 19th annual Typeface Design Competition, TDC2016, which received nearly 200 entries from 35 countries, with thirteen winning typefaces representing ten countries Come by and see the winning typefaces from our TDC 2016 competition. The winning … Read more
TypeThursday is a meeting place for people who love letterforms. Crit club + Drinks + Fun. Meet after work for a drink or two, share work in progress projects, and catch up with people who love letterforms. Previous work shown and discussion include: Lettering compositions, super family relationships, dutch italics and arabic type design. Register … Read more
In the course of this workshop the participants will reexamine the notions of beauty and ugliness by experimenting with expressive lettering using unfamiliar media and surfaces, including found objects and building materials. They will learn from the visual chaos of the vernacular, make an effort to take themselves and their work less seriously, and attempt to overcome their creative … Read more
Brand advertising and graffiti tagging are similar pursuits that interrupt our urban landscape. A tag is like a logo for a graffiti writer. It’s everywhere. It’s repeated consistently. And the writer wants you to recognize it. The tag becomes a symbol for the person. What happens when tagging is subjected to today’s trend of modernist … Read more
