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November 1, 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, fonts, graphic design, hand lettering, lettering, type design, Type Thursday, typography | Leave a commentTDC Movie Night in LA: A Night Highlighting Typography in the Film Industry
October 26, 2018The 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
Tagged film, graphic design, Los Angeles, movie titles, TV titles, type design, typography | Leave a commentTim Brown: Flexible Typesetting 101
October 18, 2018For 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
Tagged graphic design, salons, type design, typedesign, typeface design, typography, web design | Leave a commentTDC64 Exhibition in Barcelona
October 16, 2018BAU 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
Tagged book design, bookjackets, calligraphy, exhibition, fonts, graphic design, hand lettering, magazine design, posters, TDC64, traveling exhibition, type design, typography | 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 commentDina Ruzha: From Traditional Cyrillic to Contemporary Cyrillic
October 11, 2018The 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
Tagged calligraphy, hand lettering, lettering, salons, script, type, type design, typography | Leave a commentHagen Verleger: Margaret van Eyck – Renaming an Institution, a Case Study
September 27, 2018Hagen 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
Tagged branding, graphic design, salon, type design | Leave a commentCharles Nix: WWJD? (What Would Justus Do?)
September 20, 2018Messages 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
Tagged Charles Nix, fonts, graphic design, type, type design, typedesign, typeface design, typography | Leave a commentType@Cooper Extended Program Graduate 2018 Exhibition
September 20, 2018September 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
Tagged exhibition, fonts, type, type design, typeface design, typography | Leave a commentTDC63 Exhibition in Santander, Spain
September 15, 2018Exhibition: 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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