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Dina Ruzha: From Traditional Cyrillic to Contemporary Cyrillic

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

The Cyrillic art of lettering has a thousand-year-old history. Since the 18th Century, the Latin world has been inspiring the Cyrillic letterforms, but Cyrillic can inspire Latin designers for new features and forms as well. From this presentation, you’ll know about the history of Cyrillic calligraphy and how it influenced artists in the 20th Century … Read more

NYC Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers with Matteo Bologna

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Go beyond choosing the same fonts from the type menu to creating your own typefaces and become your own type designer. Get a crash course in designing type from Matteo Bologna, Creative Director of award-winning studio Mucca Design. This (always sold out) six-hour workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild … Read more

TDC64 Exhibition in Barcelona

Bau Centro Universitario de Diseño c/ Pujades, 118, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

BAU Design College of Barcelona is hosting the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design Exhibitions of Type Directors Club in several locations on its campus in Barcelona, Spain. Over 200 selections in the TDC64 exhibition represent the award-winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface design competition and communication design competition selected by … Read more

Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting 101

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

For the first time in hundreds of years, because of the web, the role of the typographer has changed. We no longer decide; we suggest. We no longer simply choose typefaces, font sizes, line spacing, and margins; we prepare and instruct text to make those choices for itself. Tim Brown is a designer, writer, speaker, … Read more

TDC Movie Night in LA: A Night Highlighting Typography in the Film Industry

Netflix Theater 5808 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The title of a movie is the first connection a viewer has with a film. From the moment a friend asks “Did you see that movie?” its title is the element with which your brain identifies the experience. But the look of that title its often relegated to a second plane. We believe that good … Read more

TypeThursday NYC (November)

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

It's fontastic & boldacious & x-heighting! It’s TypeThursdayNYC! TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly gathering of type geeks, held at Type Directors Club. We like to think of ourselves as a type superfamily: we attract local letterform lovers hailing from all disciplines and levels of expertise. Social hours bookend the centerpiece of our event, a group critique … Read more

CANCELLED – Thomas Milo: The Future of Arabic Book Production

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Given the massive number of people who use Arabic script, the industry’s indifference regarding it becomes catastrophic, despite competent contributions. Thomas Milo's talk demonstrates a new concept that can grow into a universal solution that preserves the characteristics of any specific script in the context of global computing and Unicode. Thomas Milo is a linguist … Read more

TDC64 Exhibition at Escola ILLA in Sabadell, Spain

Escola ILLA Carretera de Barcelona, 208 bis, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

Escola d’Art i Disseny ILLA is hosting the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design Exhibitions of Type Directors Club in Sabedell, Barcelona, Spain. The TDC64 exhibition will include over 200 selections of winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface design competition and communication design competition selected by an international jury of top … Read more

TDC64 Exhibition at House of Words in Lublin, Poland

DomDom Słów-Izba Drukarstwa (House of Words-Print House) Żmigród 1 St., Lublin, Poland

Dom Słów-Izba Drukarstwa (House of Words-Print House) is hosting the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design Exhibitions of Type Directors Club in Lublin, Poland. The exhibition is having its debut in conjunction with the fourth edition of TypoLub, a weekend conference and series of workshops that features typographers from Israel and workshops on … Read more

Viktor Koen Exhibition: Phenotypes

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Phenotypes is a special Type Directors Club exhibition featuring the work of Viktor Koen, an award-winning artist, designer, educator and TED speaker. This exhibition explores the cross-section between typography and illustration, and features Viktor's steam-punkphabet works, his Sciphabet, the Artphabet designed for School of the Visual Arts, and many more inspirational creations. The exhibition is … Read more