An interview with Alan Peckolick about type then and now. Designer Dominick Santise interviews Alan Peckolick about the changing role of type and technology. The two designers will delve into the topic of reconciling the human need for motion and emotion in visual communications, with the simplicity technology requires. The interview will be accompanied by … Read more
In this full-day, intensive workshop, the thirteen participants and hosts will work collaboratively to create a full vector alphabet by the end of the day. Through several rounds of group critiques and concentrated work sessions, the alphabet will evolve from idea to sketch to refined vector execution. This is a great workshop for beginning to … Read more
Architectural and Urban Inscriptions Between Wayfinding, Visual Language and Scenography Ruedi Baur Thursday, November 21, 6:30 to 8:30 Starting with our wayfinding project for The New School in New York to the more modest Parsons School in Paris, Ruedi Baur will present his approach to the question of orientation and identification of public institutions. He … Read more
A Flyby with Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic. Description: Typography has jumped off the printed page to stand on its own as branding, sculpture, and even architecture. Lettering Large examines this phenomenon through a diverse collection of images collected from a vast range of sources around the world. As technology has made construction and production of … Read more
Do words like Clipping Group, Compound Paths, Adjustment Layers, Nested Styles, and the Appearance panel send shivers down your spine? Do you cringe when you hear successful designers talk about Glyphs, Curves, Levels, or Layer Comps? Do Smart Objects make you feel dumb? Does the word Mask sending you screaming from the room? If so, … Read more
Join TDC in celebrating the holiday season and hear guest speaker Chip Kidd. Chip will be signing his new book, GO: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design. Design is all around you. From an exit sign to a speed bump to the back of a shampoo bottle, everything that is not made by nature is … Read more
Ellen Lupton (Type Design judge) Your Grandma Sets Type in Hell: Ten Reasons Typography Won’t Make You Happy Ellen Lupton tells stories about graphic design. Everywhere she goes, she sees design winning, losing, or just trying to catch your eye. Designers often complain that their own mothers don’t understand what they do. Lupton tries to … Read more
Opening reception Thursday, Jan 23, 6 - 8:30pm On display January 23 - 30, 2014 We are delighted to display the first solo show by designer and typographer Craig Ward; continuing his preoccupation with the juxtaposition of clean, classically designed typography with the chaos of natural processes and organic materials. Over a year in the … Read more
Launched in 2009, the italian edition of Wired has immediately become one of the most popular magazines in the country, despite the crisis of the global editorial industry. Acknowledged for its creative and unique approach to information, Wired Italy focused its attention in defining a different storytelling to share its contents. Design, typography, illustration, information … Read more
Brazilian modern graphic design had its start during the fifties and sixties, when the first Brazilian design schools were established. Its educational model came from Germany and Switzerland, as for the rest of Latin America. At that time, visual identity, signs and logos were the mainstream of graphic design. Some decades later, that very precise … Read more
