The Type Directors Club 63rd Annual Communications Design and 2017 Typeface Design Exhibitions are part of The Way of Type 2018, a three-part exhibition and associated design events that are travelling through China. In Nanjing, the Type Directors Club show is presented alongside The Ninth FounderType Design Competition, and the GTI Course Exhibition Tour. FounderType … Read more
In this hands-on intensive workshop you will drive the process of drawing and refining custom script lettering. In this one-day session you will be introduced to effective techniques to create cursive lettering from scratch, with essential insights to deal with flourishes and composition. It is ideal for beginners as well as advanced letterers who want … Read more
This year's Creative Week Urban Lettering Walk is co-sponsored by the Type Directors Club, The One Club, and Legacy of Letters. Design historian Paul Shaw will walk participants through the adjoining West Side neighborhoods of the Garment District and Chelsea between 42nd Street and 14th Street to see letters. The Garment District is an industrial … Read more
The Type Directors Club 63rd Annual Communications Design and 2017 Typeface Design Exhibitions will be on display in the gallery and throughout the Estación Diseño school in Amilla near Grenada through the end of July. Estación Diseño hosts this exhibition annually, and continues in this tradition during 2018. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Estación Diseño … Read more
Samwon Specialty Paper is currently hosting the "World's Best Typography" exhibition -- the winners of the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design competition of Type Directors Club -- in a special gallery in Under Stand Avenue in Seoul, South Korea. The "World's Best Typography" exhibition includes over 280 selections of winning work from … Read more
Monograms and ciphers sold to personalize products such as luggage, handbags, totes, linens, dress shirts, sweatshirts, T-shirts and even baby onesies mostly look the same. Stationer Nancy Sharon Collins explains their historical progression and the evolution of the monogram into something as plain and simple as most have become. With her decades-long work researching and … Read more
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) 6 hours workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the … Read more
This walk will look at lettering in a former industrial/commercial section of Lower Manhattan that has been undergoing a rapid transformation into a residential neighborhood for the wealthy. It is a chance to see what still survives of the area's 19th century and early 20th century lettering before condoization scrubs everything clean. The tour will … Read more
Japan Typography Association and Takeo Paper are currently hosting the "World's Best Typography" exhibition -- the winners of the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design competition of Type Directors Club -- in the Takeo Mihoncho Honten Gallery in Tokyo. This is the 40th year that the JTA began showing the award-winning work, which … Read more
What is typography? This most basic question has prompted countless debates within Western circles. In China, the situation is more complicated. Terms used to describe calligraphic forms have been augmented to include their mechanical brethren. Competing Chinese words represent differing ideas of what type—printed, calligraphic, and hand-lettered—means. For typography, there is no Chinese term fully … Read more
