The Hamilton pressure-print workshop on June 12th will be led by Jim Moran, Director of the Museum and assisted by Stephanie Carpenter, the Museum's Assistant Director. They will be bringing both type and decorative blocks from the museum's collection for participants to experiment and print with. This "hand's on" workshop runs from noon until 4 … Read more
Jim Moran, Director of the Museum will give a presentation that will highlight the history of Hamilton's place in the world of typography and their year-long effort to pack up the world's largest collection of type into a new facility and begin a re-birth of the Hamilton legacy. Register Online
In 1921, Condé Nast set out to centralize production of his magazines and pattern business just outside of New York City. The result was a 300,000 square foot state of the art printing plant along the Boston Post Road in Greenwich, CT. Join Shawn Waldron, Senior Director of the Condé Nast Archive, as he talks … Read more
(CANCELED) Braille was developed in 1824. Its design was constrained by the technology of the day. It has been the standard tactile alphabet for 190 years. However, only 59,000 people in the U.S. can read braille, out of a visually impaired population of 8.3 million people. This low adoption rate (less than 1%) is due … Read more
We are very excited to announce a trip to visit Lou Dorsfman’s Gastrotypographicassemblage at the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, New York. Nick Fasciano who worked with Lou to help put the wall together, and later, retrieved and restored it will be discussing the wall with us as we sit in front of it. Alexander … Read more
The Type Directors Club invites members, its honorees, and the press to attend a private showing of its sixtieth annual typography exhibit, TDC60, and the selections from the annual typeface design competition, TDC 2014. Acknowledgements, announcements of the Best in Show, Best in Show Student Awards and Scholarship presentations start at 6:30 PM. The exhibition … Read more
The Type Directors Club invites everyone to its sixtieth annual typography exhibit, TDC60, and the selections from the annual typeface design competition, TDC 2014. The exhibition runs July 17 through August 7, 2014. Open Monday through Thursday 10am to 5pm The exhibition is sponsored by Cooper Union.
Typography on the web has made huge leaps forward in recent years, allowing web designers to realize their designs with an almost print-like level of control. However, the details surrounding that control can still be challenging, and bleeding-edge technology like OpenType support is still in flux. In this talk, Typekit’s Creative Director and 8 Faces … Read more
The Type Directors Club will be sponsoring a special presentation by Brooklyn-based graphic designer and letterer Dana Tanamachi during TypeCon2014. Join in for an hour of light-hearted storytelling. Dana will share her story and perspective on how she used her day job as a platform for her dream job. She’ll also chat about embracing anonymity … Read more
Presented by the Type Directors Club The TypeCon2014 TypeGallery schedule Thursday, July 31st 9:00am – 5:30pm Friday, August 1st 8:00am – 8:00pm Saturday, August 2nd 8:00am – 5:30pm Sunday, August 3rd 8:30am – 12:45pm FREE and open to the general public.
