Ross MacDonald is perhaps best known as an illustrator, yet all the while he has led a secret double life designing and fabricating props for over 40 movies and television series. Type Directors Club is pleased to present this fun exhibition Hidden in Plain Sight and give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how movie, TV, and … Read more
Ross MacDonald is perhaps best known as an illustrator, yet all the while he has led a secret double life designing and fabricating props for over 40 movies and television series. He has made everything from the book Bradley Cooper’s character throws out the window in Silver Linings Playbook, to the titular Book of Secrets … Read more
Kameel Hawa will present his typographic sculptures and reveal the creative process and the conceptual considerations behind these projects. He will highlight the artistic power and poetry of the Arabic letterforms, and their cultural contribution to public space. About Kameel Hawa Lebanese designer, painter, and writer Kameel Hawa's name has become synonymous with Almohtaraf, the … Read more
It's fontastic & boldacious & x-heighting! It’s TypeThursdayNYC! TypeThursdayNYC is a monthly gathering of type geeks, held at Type Dorectors 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
Typographics Festival events include a conference, tours, talks, workshops, a Book Fair, and TypeLab. Speakers for this year's conference include: Anton & Irene, Gail Bichler, Bahia Shehab, Veronika Burian & José Scaglione, Silas Munro, Shannon Harvey, Peter Bilak, Tamara Shopsin, Lance Wyman, Teddy Blanks, Sarah Gephart & Alicia Cheng, Massimo Pitis, Bobby C. Martin, Mr. … Read more
Join the TDC at Parsons for an evening double feature! In Letters We Trust | Tobias Frere-Jones For centuries, letterforms have been a means of security for citizens and governments alike. This talk will explore the ways that letterforms have been used in plain sight and in secret, to thwart forgery. Some strategies have relied … Read more
Neville Brody is coming to New York to speak on "Type and Time" as part of our TDC at Parsons program. Different eras, different societies, and different peoples demand different ways of communicating. As technology, tools, and tasks change over time, the languages we speak and the way we speak them need to evolve to … Read more
Now in its fifth year, the UK’s most popular web typography conference is returning June 29 to sunny, beautiful Brighton. The conference brings together experts from all aspects of web typography, including branding and editorial designers, web developers, visual designers, browser makers, and type designers. The idea is to provide the audience with a full picture … Read more
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology is again hosting the Type Directors Club "World's Best Typography" exhibition -- the winners of the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design competition of Type Directors Club -- in Warsaw, Poland. The "World's Best Typography" exhibition includes over 280 selections of winning work from the TDC’s annual international … Read more
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
