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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 commentTDC63 Exhibition in Grenada, Spain
May 9, 2018The Type Directors Club 63rd Annual Communications Design and 2017 Typeface Design Exhibitions will be on display in the gallery and throughout the Estación Diseño school in Amilla near Grenada through the end of July. Estación Diseño hosts this exhibition annually, and continues in this tradition during 2018. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Estación Diseño … Read more
Tagged book design, branding, calligraphy, exhibition, graphic design, hand lettering, magazine design, motion graphics, posters, tdc63, traveling exhibition, type design, typeface design, typography | Leave a commentTDC63 Exhibition in Nanjing
May 4, 2018The Type Directors Club 63rd Annual Communications Design and 2017 Typeface Design Exhibitions are part of The Way of Type 2018, a three-part exhibition and associated design events that are travelling through China. In Nanjing, the Type Directors Club show is presented alongside The Ninth FounderType Design Competition, and the GTI Course Exhibition Tour. FounderType … Read more
Tagged book design, branding, calligraphy, exhibition, graphic design, lettering, magazine design, posters, tdc63, type design, typeface design, typography | Leave a comment2-Day Workshop: Designing Type with Mark Simonson
April 27, 2018Start a Glyphs font project with renowned type designer Mark Simonson: Mark is an independent type designer working out of his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mark was variously a graphic designer, art director, illustrator, and lettering artist before becoming a full-time type designer in 2005. He is probably best known for designing the typeface … Read more
Tagged Glyphs, Mark Simonson, type, type design, Workshop | Leave a commentColophon Foundry: Our Way or the Bézier
April 16, 2018Anthony Sheret and Edd Harrington of Colophon Foundry will look at their inter-locking approach to design and type design—through retail type work, self-driven exhibition work and custom type projects for a variety of agencies, brands and companies. Note: This Type Directors Club event will be at Parsons The New School in Room UL105.
Tagged branding, exhibition, graphic design, type design | Leave a commentTDC63 Exhibition in Beijing
March 31, 2018Installation of TDC63 in Beijing, showing poster by Ibán Ramón for the University of Valencia (left) with numbered posters by Fotone for the Thessalonika’s Taratsa International Film Festival (far right) and posters by Neue Gestaltung for the Staatstheater Mainz. The Type Directors Club 63rd Annual Communications Design and 2017 Typeface Design Exhibitions are part of … Read more
Tagged book design, bookjackets, branding, exhibition, fonts, graphic design, lettering, magazine design, posters, tdc63, tour, traveling exhibition, type, type design, typography | Leave a commentType Drives Culture
March 23, 2018The Type Directors Club celebrates and amplifies the undeniable power of typography. We are a global community of experts and enthusiasts who are united by the shared belief that type drives culture. And culture drives type. The Type Drives Culture conference on March 23 will be a day of presentations about the influence of type … Read more
Tagged branding, fonts, graphic design, TDC, type, type conference, type design, typedesign, typedrivesculture, typeface design, typography | Leave a commentJean François Porchez: The Visible Invisibility of Words
February 28, 2018Why is typography a vital asset for business communication? Visual identity is built from the colors and typefaces that make up the most fundamental expression of a brand, yet the design of typefaces must remain invisible for the convenience of the reader. How does the typeface designer reconcile such inherent contradictions, while also meeting the … Read more
Tagged Business Communication, digital, Jean François Porchez, Le Monde, type design, Typofonderie, typography | Leave a commentTDC63 Exhibition in Barcelona
February 19, 2018BAU Design College of Barcelona is hosting the 63rd Annual Communications Design and 2017 Typeface Design Exhibitions of Type Directors Club in two locations on its campus in Barcelona, Spain Over 200 selections in the TDC63 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, branding, calligraphy, exhibition, fonts, graphic design, hand lettering, magazine design, posters, tdc63, traveling exhibition, type design, typeface design | Leave a commentLibrary Travelogue with Tobias Frere-Jones
January 25, 2018This 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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