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TDC Judges Night: Karin Fong and Kristyan Sarkis

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

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

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Exhibition Opening — Viktor Koen: Decoding Phenotypes

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

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

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Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting 101

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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

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Dina Ruzha: From Traditional Cyrillic to Contemporary Cyrillic

Posted on by Angela Voulangas

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

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TDC at Parsons: Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

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

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Kameel Hawa: Shape of the Word – Arabic Typographic Sculpture for Public Spaces

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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

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Library Travelogue with Tobias Frere-Jones

Posted on by Angela Voulangas

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

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Hubert & Fischer: Boooooooooook Design

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

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

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Mapping, Typography and Storytelling

Posted on by Angela Voulangas

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

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Letter as Object: Representational Lettering From Project Brief Through Final Art—with Sasha Prood

Posted on by Carol Wahler

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

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