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
From September 11 to December 14, 2018, The Type Directors Club is presenting The World’s Best Typography exhibition at Sheridan College's Trafalgar campus in Oakville, featuring the winning work of the Type Director Club’s 64th Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design competitions. The exhibition, sponsored by Sheridan College and the Sheridan Typographic Hub, is … Read more
From September 12 to 15, 2018, The Type Directors Club will present The World’s Best Typography exhibition at the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) conference in Antwerp, featuring the winning work of the Type Director Club’s 64th Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design competitions. This year’s annual juried exhibition includes hundreds of works that features … Read more
Exhibition: September 15 - October 31, 2018. The Type Directors Club exhibition TDC63 is on display in Santander as the fifth stop on its tour though Spain. TDC63 is on display at the Cantabria Central Library as the kick-off to the region's third annual TIPOS graphic design competition, which takes place in later this year. … Read more
Messages from the dead! Mystical communication across two centuries! International intrigue! Typographic treasures guarded by a network of biblio-zealots! A massive cabal! A plot so colossal no less than 90 collaborators involved! A Corsican invader! Genius hampered by Emperor Napoleon! German Romance! The Caspar David Friedrich of type! Behold! An illustrated lecture! Join Charles Nix … Read more
Design Incubation invites you to join industry professionals and design educators for a panel discussion on creating effective design portfolios. We will explore the role portfolios play in a successful design career now and in the future and will ask, are traditional portfolios still relevant? If so, what does a successful portfolio look like and … Read more
Hagen Verleger will give an insight into “Margaret van Eyck,” an ongoing, collaborative research/art project at the intersection of institutional critique, feminist design intervention, and the politics of (re-)naming, which he initiated in 2017 during his time as artist-in-residence at Van Eyck, a Dutch post-academic institute for fine art, design, and reflection. Upon arriving at … Read more
TypeThursdayNYC x Meet the Creatives! This is going to be a special night, complete with a live podcast! 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 … Read more
BAU Design College of Barcelona is hosting the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design Exhibitions of Type Directors Club in several locations on its campus in Barcelona, Spain. Over 200 selections in the TDC64 exhibition represent the award-winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface design competition and communication design competition selected by … Read more
For the first time in hundreds of years, because of the web, the role of the typographer has changed. We no longer decide; we suggest. We no longer simply choose typefaces, font sizes, line spacing, and margins; we prepare and instruct text to make those choices for itself. Tim Brown is a designer, writer, speaker, … Read more
