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Graphic Arts in the Liberal Arts—Free Panel Discussion

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

What challenges and obstacles do graphic design programs encounter today as they work to balance the multitude of critical thinking, and conceptual and technical skills needed to help students grow into thoughtful, adept and culturally aware design practitioners? How do programs housed in liberal arts institutions differ from those in art schools? We invite you to join educators in a conversation on the teaching … Read more

Teaching Type: A Panel Conversation on Typography Education

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

Design Incubation and the Type Directors Club bring together a panel of educators to discuss innovations, challenges and best practices for teaching typography to be held at the TDC, Saturday, April 1, 2017, 2pm–5pm. This event is free, but you must register. As a mainstay of design, typography is a cornerstone of most degree programs … Read more

Devising Design Projects: From Conception to Deployment

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

A Design Incubation and TDC co-sponsored conference. The development of design projects and course plans is being conducted in increasingly complex educational environments requiring a more sophisticated set of thoughtful and negotiated responses. Educators work to devise projects that will best serve students, the discipline and the profession. Once complete they then have to decide … Read more

Chicago Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers

Fireblly Design 1402 N Western Avenue, Chicago, IL

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

Type ThursdayNYC (July)

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

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

NYC Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers with Matteo Bologna

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

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) six-hour workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild … Read more

Timothy Samara: The Wheel Is Still Round: Renewing Focus on the Study of Form in Graphic Design Education

Type Directors Club 347 W 36th St Suite 603, New York, NY, United States

If graphic design is about creating and organizing visual form to communicate, why are design educators obsessed with everything except teaching about form? How did we become so distracted from what really matters? Provocative answers to these questions precede a prescription for effectively building students’ expertise in design’s core fluency. Timothy Samara is a New … Read more