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Brooklyn Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw
September 30, 2018TDC and Legacy of Letters are returning to Brooklyn for the first walk in the borough since 2015. This time the focus will be on a group of neighborhoods in the heart of Brooklyn bounded by Church Avenue, Ocean Parkway, King’s Highway, and Utica Avenue: Flatbush, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, Ocean Parkway, and Flatlands. It … Read more
Tagged Paul Shaw, type walk, typography | Leave a commentUrban Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: From Canal Street to City Hall
May 20, 2018This walk will look at lettering in a former industrial/commercial section of Lower Manhattan that has been undergoing a rapid transformation into a residential neighborhood for the wealthy. It is a chance to see what still survives of the area’s 19th century and early 20th century lettering before condoization scrubs everything clean. The tour will … Read more
Tagged legacy of letters, lettering walk, Paul Shaw, type walk | Leave a commentCreative Week Urban Lettering Walk: Garment District and Chelsea
May 8, 2018This year’s Creative Week Urban Lettering Walk is co-sponsored by the Type Directors Club, The One Club, and Legacy of Letters. Design historian Paul Shaw will walk participants through the adjoining West Side neighborhoods of the Garment District and Chelsea between 42nd Street and 14th Street to see letters. The Garment District is an industrial … Read more
Tagged fonts, lettering, Paul Shaw, type, type walk, typography | Leave a commentTDC Legacy of Letters Urban Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Upper East Side
November 12, 2017We return to Manhattan for the Legacy of Letters urban lettering walk this fall with an investigation of the Upper East Side from 59th Street to 96th Street. The area encompasses both Lenox Hill and Carnegie Hill, two largely residential neighborhoods. But there are numerous institutions from museums to private schools, libraries, churches and government … Read more
Tagged lettering, Paul Shaw, type walk | Leave a commentLettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Elmhurst and Corona, Queens
May 21, 2017This lettering walk will take in two working class neighborhoods of Queens: Elmhurst and Corona. Elmhurst can trace its history back to the Dutch village of Middenburgh, established in 1652. In the 20th century it became an enclave for Jewish and Italian immigrants, but now it is nearly as ethnically diverse as nearby Jackson Heights. … Read more
Tagged lettering walk, Paul Shaw | Leave a commentLegacy of Letters 2016 workshop
July 9, 2016This year the Legacy of Letters will consist of a letterpress workshop combined with cooking lessons. Both will take place at the Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, just northwest of Venice, from July 9 to 16. The workshop—entitled Tipo Cibo Vino (Type Food Wine) will be led by Peter Kruty and Sayre Gaydos of Peter … Read more
Tagged legacy of letters, Paul Shaw, Workshop | Leave a commentTDC Type Walk with Paul Shaw: North Bronx
April 17, 2016This lettering walk will take in several neighborhoods in the northern part of the Bronx, between the New York Botanical Garden and Westchester: Norwood, Williamsbridge, Wakefield and Woodlawn Heights. We may even stray into Mt. Vernon or Yonkers, if the weather is good and we are not too tired. These neighborhoods are rich in ethnic … Read more
Tagged Bronx, lettering, Paul Shaw, tour | Leave a commentThe Eternal Letter:
Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital Codex Studies in Letterforms | The MIT Press
February 19, 2015
Please join us on Thursday, February 19th, for a book signing and remarks by TDC members Paul Shaw, Linda Florio (the book’s designer) and Scott-Martin Kosofsky (its producer). There are letterforms and then there are letterforms. But only one conquered a planet: the classical Roman capital. It is the greatest legacy of Rome and the … Read more
Tagged Linda Florio, Paul Shaw, Scott-Martin Kosofsky | Leave a commentCentury Expanded: Paul Shaw on W.A. Dwiggins & Paper Promotion 1915–1935
June 3, 2014W.A. Dwiggins is best known for the typefaces he designed for Mergenthaler Linotype (now available through Monotype) and the books he designed for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. However, when he was awarded the AIGA Gold Medal in 1929 it was for neither of those activities. It was for his work in advertising. The most important … Read more
Tagged Paul Shaw, W.A.Dwiggings | Leave a commentTDC Walking Tour: Dutch Kills to Astoria
June 1, 2014Astoria, Dutch Kills and Ravenswood. Three contiguous neighborhoods along the Queens waterfront across from Manhattan that have a mix of pre-1960s signage, churches with Art Deco lettering, lively graffiti, and funky vernacular. A perfect location for the next TDC lettering walk. These walks occur only twice a year and locations are never repeated. So, take … Read more
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