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Magazines According to Luke

Pentagram partner Luke Hayman discusses his wide-ranging experience designing magazines for clients TIME, Cosmopolitan, SELF, Consumer Reports, Radar, The Atlantic and more. Register Now

TDC59 Exhibition Party in Minneapolis

Rat Race Studios 1625 Hennepin Avenue Suite 150 (alley entrance), Minneapolis, MN, United States

Mingle with your fellow typophiles from near and far on the eve of the Head, Heart, Hand: AIGA Design Conference. We’re bringing the Type Directors Club’s 59th annual communication design and typeface exhibition to Minneapolis. The TDC’s juried exhibition showcases the most beautiful and ambitious work from today’s best international designers and typographers. Join us … Read more

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TDC Medal Presentation for Gerrit Noordzij

The Aula of the University of Amsterdam Singel 411, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

The TDC will present Dutch typographer, type designer, author, lettering artist, and influential teacher Gerrit Noordzij with its highest honor, the Type Directors Club Medal, during this year’s conference of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) in Amsterdam. An overview of Mr. Noordzij’s work will be presented by his colleague, Peter Verheul. TDC Executive Director Carol … Read more

The birth of Czech typography

 A fight for the national typeface Czech typographer and editor Filip Blažek will describe the story of the Czech typography from its shy beginnings at the end of the 19th century until the boom of the digital type production we experience now. Filip will show the visual journey of the Czech typography, its inspirational sources, … Read more

DPS for Designers: Creating Interactive Publications for iPad

In case you missed the memo, print is dead. For designers this means embracing new technologies like eBooks and tablets. Fortunately the tools are still largely the same. Over the last several years Adobe has been grooming industry standard InDesign as the basis of its Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) revolution. Leveraging tools already in InDesign, … Read more

Bronx Lettering Tour with Paul Shaw

East Bronx: Allerton, Olinville and Williamsbridge Register Now For the first time a TDC lettering walk will take place in the Bronx. We will visit several neighborhoods in the East Bronx located between Bronx Park and Boston Road: Allerton, Olinville and Williamsbridge. These neighborhoods will be unfamiliar to most TDC members and will provide a … Read more

Ampersand NYC

The TDC is proud to sponsor the conference Ampersand NYC on November 2, 2013. Ampersand NYC is a day-long event about web typography and, based on its success in the UK, it promises to be stimulating and popular. There have been three Ampersand conferences in seaside Brighton, England and this is the first in the United … Read more

This Is (Still) NOT A Sagmeister

In 2011, Eric Heiman took almost a year off from everything design—his practice, his teaching gig, his writing, even that cursed social media (for the most part)—to read, travel, take photos, get all existential, and (most of all) deny that this sabbatical was anything like the ones that famous Austrian graphic designer takes. While he … Read more

New Transport + New Newspaper Fonts

Henrik Kubel graduated from Denmark’s Design School in 1997, and went on to complete a Postgraduate degree in Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art in 2000. Upon graduation Henrik co-founded A2/SW/HK with fellow graduate Scott Williams. A2/SW/HK has a conceptual approach to design across various media, including design for print, screen … Read more