The primary challenge when creating representational lettering is balancing legibility of type and clarity of object. This is only made more complex when a client is involved. Sasha Prood will examine her representational lettering process from project brief, through ideation, sketch evolution, final art, and even the occasional “final final” art. She will delve into … Read more
Maps are some of the most carefully designed objects, often blending utility and beauty seamlessly. The type on a map has higher stakes than type elsewhere — it represents a real three-dimensional world in two-dimensional space. Type is crucial to if a map succeeds, and the type systems of maps can be incredibly rigid, complex, … Read more
Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer, the founding partners of Hubert & Fischer, a design studio with offices in New York and Berlin, are coming to the Type Directors Club to talk about their passion—book design. They met at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany, where they had access to the school’s … Read more
This past fall, Princeton Architectural Press published Fifty Type Specimens from The Collection of Tobias Frere-Jones, a sampling from his library of 400+ type specimens. Tobias will recount the making of the collection and will give a larger tour of the library, examining specimens as expressions of type as well as artifacts of commerce and … 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
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
The Cyrillic art of lettering has a thousand-year-old history. Since the 18th Century, the Latin world has been inspiring the Cyrillic letterforms, but Cyrillic can inspire Latin designers for new features and forms as well. From this presentation, you’ll know about the history of Cyrillic calligraphy and how it influenced artists in the 20th Century … 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
Join us for an opening-night reception and talk at this Type Directors Club exhibition of the work of Viktor Koen, an award-winning artist, designer, educator and TED speaker. Exploring the cross-section between typography and illustration is fascinating, but often challenging to understand. Viktor Koen's talk for this exhibition opening will examine if this duality should … Read more
Two Judges. One Night. Karin Fong (Los Angeles) Founding Member of Imaginary Forces Emmy Award Winning Director TDC65 Communication Design Judge Kristyan Sarkis (Amsterdam/Beirut) Co-founder TPTQ Arabic Co-founder Type Design–Beirut TDC65 Typeface Design Judge Two esteemed judges of the Type Directors Club's competitions will present their work and their perspectives. Join them in conversation with … Read more
