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TypeThursday NYC (November)

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

It’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

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TDC Movie Night in LA: A Night Highlighting Typography in the Film Industry

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

The title of a movie is the first connection a viewer has with a film. From the moment a friend asks “Did you see that movie?” its title is the element with which your brain identifies the experience. But the look of that title its often relegated to a second plane. We believe that good … Read more

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Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting 101

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

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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TDC64 Exhibition in Barcelona

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

BAU Design College of Barcelona is hosting the 64rd Annual Communications Design and 2018 Typeface Design Exhibitions of Type Directors Club in several locations on its campus in Barcelona, Spain. Over 200 selections in the TDC64 exhibition represent the award-winning work from the TDC’s annual international typeface design competition and communication design competition selected by … Read more

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NYC Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers with Matteo Bologna

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

Go 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

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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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Hagen Verleger: Margaret van Eyck – Renaming an Institution, a Case Study

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

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

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Charles Nix: WWJD? (What Would Justus Do?)

Posted on by Susan Bednarczyk

Messages from the dead! Mystical communication across two centuries! International intrigue! Typographic treasures guarded by a network of biblio-zealots! A massive cabal! A plot so colossal no less than 90 collaborators involved! A Corsican invader! Genius hampered by Emperor Napoleon! German Romance! The Caspar David Friedrich of type! Behold! An illustrated lecture! Join Charles Nix … Read more

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Type@Cooper Extended Program Graduate 2018 Exhibition

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September 20 – November 7, 2018. The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm by appointment only. Call 212-633-8943 or email director@tdc.org for an appointment. This exhibition celebrates the creative output of the 2018 class of the Type@Cooper Extended Program, which offers a Postgraduate Certificate in … Read more

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TDC63 Exhibition in Santander, Spain

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Exhibition: September 15 – October 31, 2018. The Type Directors Club exhibition TDC63 is on display in Santander as the fifth stop on its tour though Spain. TDC63 is on display at the Cantabria Central Library as the kick-off to the region’s third annual TIPOS graphic design competition, which takes place in later this year. … Read more

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