It was said of the great British architect, Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), "if you seek his monument – look around you." Well, that may be true if you were standing in certain parts of London, but in the case of Hermann Zapf, if you want to see his monument, you can look around you almost … Read more
ONE + ONE = THREE I spend my working life helping other people work smarter. Every day my team and I enter organisations, identify problems and find solutions. We redesign not just how an organisation looks but how it articulates, how it flows. For the past 25 years, I have always been designing. I’ve built … Read more
A book about writing without a single word Hushed Writing is a book that cannot be read in the conventional way: only a graphic interpretation is possible. This act of deliberately separating form from content has transformed the graphic structure of the book into its narrative. The project is made entirely from materials found on … Read more
Get a crash course in designing type from Matteo Bologna, Creative Director of award-winning studio Mucca Design (and mastermind behind some of the most drool-worthy typography we’ve ever seen). The workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild journey into the super fun world of type design. In this class you … Read more
Image Credit: Mauro Gimeno A book about writing without a single word Hushed Writing is a book that cannot be read in the conventional way: only a graphic interpretation is possible. This act of deliberately separating form from content has transformed the graphic structure of the book into its narrative. The project is made entirely … Read more
The Fall 2015 TDC Lettering Walk: The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Paul Shaw The Fall 2015 TDC Lettering Walk will be the first ever to take place indoors. We will visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the wide variety of lettering that it contains, from the obvious such as Roman sarcophagi to … Read more
International Typographic Exhibition of the New York Type Directors Club (TDC), will take place in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City this month and next month, respectively. The TDC61 exhibition will include 272 selections of winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface design competition as well as the communication design contest. Typography will … Read more
Athelas by TypeTogether Maiola by TypeTogether Veronika Burian, TypeTogether Curating a type library The commercialisation of typefaces has become increasingly complex in recent years. The different kinds of licences, the large amount of fonts on offer, and the variety of font pricing structure and language support result in a scenario where choosing and buying typefaces … Read more
With the Revival of Printing movement of the 1890s, there arose a generation of book printers and designers, keenly interested in learning form the typographic heritage of the past generations. These typographers sought out each other's company to talk shop and exchange ideas. The Typophiles of New York, which began in the early 1930s as … Read more
This case study, premiered at the occasion of this TDC lecture, focuses on the recent design and development of a typeface family for France’s premier car manufacturer, designed for automotive chrome lettering. Spanning from design direction to industrial constraints, Levée will embrace many aspects of 2D type design that were extended into 3D vehicle marking. … Read more
