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Timothy Samara: The Wheel Is Still Round: Renewing Focus on the Study of Form in Graphic Design Education
March 21, 2019If 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
Tagged culture, education, graphic design, History, typedrivesculture | Leave a commentNYC Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers with Matteo Bologna
October 13, 2018Go 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
Tagged education, fonts, type, type design, typedesign, typeface design, typography, Workshop | Leave a commentType ThursdayNYC (July)
July 12, 2018It’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
Tagged crit, crit club, education, fonts, graphic design, hand lettering, lettering, type design, Type Thursday, typography | Leave a commentChicago Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers
May 19, 2018Go 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
Tagged education, graphic design, type, type design, typography | Leave a commentDevising Design Projects: From Conception to Deployment
October 21, 2017A 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
Tagged designeducators, discussion, education | Leave a commentTeaching Type: A Panel Conversation on Typography Education
April 1, 2017Design 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
Tagged education, panel, paneldiscussion | Leave a commentGraphic Arts in the Liberal Arts—Free Panel Discussion
November 12, 2016What 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
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