The Type Directors Club is pleased to invite everyone to the opening of Rocco Piscatello: Poster Works for FIT, the first retrospective of Piscatello’s series of posters for the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Visiting Artist Program. Rocco himself will be on hand to present and explain his signature ten qualities of powerful design. The exhibition … 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
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
The Type Directors Club and the Society of Typographic Aficionados are pleased to announce that lettering artist and illustrator Gemma O’Brien will be giving a special presentation on Thursday, August 2nd, as part of TypeCon2018 in Portland, Oregon. Join us in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Portland Downtown hotel at 7:30 pm and learn … 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
Given the massive number of people who use Arabic script, the industry’s indifference regarding it becomes catastrophic, despite competent contributions. Thomas Milo's talk demonstrates a new concept that can grow into a universal solution that preserves the characteristics of any specific script in the context of global computing and Unicode. Thomas Milo is a linguist … Read more
Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger will unveil their signage & identity typeface design for the new Essex Market, and share the thinking and process behind it. While the building that will soon house the market is brand new (the Essex Crossing development on Delancey and Essex Streets, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan), this … Read more
Join us for a talk by Scott Boms at the opening of our latest exhibition at Type Directors Club -- The Right Kind of Wrong -- Inside the Facebook Analog Research Lab. You'll get to see posters produced at Facebook's artist-in-residence program and find out why one of the world's largest digital leaders is hand-crafting … Read more
Typography empowers communication whether it’s a hand-painted sign, a silk-screened message, or letterpress printed words. Gloria Kondrup will present posters curated from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics -- a selection that examines issues such as choice, gender inequality, war, and violence against women. Included are works by Barbara Kruger, … Read more
This free event, courtesy of Google, will be streamed live from Google HQ in New York City on the TDC YouTube Channel: TDC YouTube The last 30 years has seen a great growth in generalized glyphs and styles. David Berlow's talk will show what happens to and for typography when we start to get more … Read more
