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← Older posts Newer posts →Exhibition| Rocco Piscatello: Poster Works for FIT
March 9, 2018The Type Directors Club is pleased to present Rocco Piscatello: Poster Works for FIT, the first retrospective of Piscatello’s series of posters for the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Visiting Artist Program. The exhibition will feature all 24 posters created for the program and include Piscatello’s ten qualities of powerful design. Come to the TDC April … Read more
Tagged exhibition, poster design, posters, rocco piscatello, typography | Leave a commentRoss MacDonald: Hidden in Plain Sight—Props for Film, Television, and Theater
March 7, 2018Ross MacDonald is perhaps best known as an illustrator, yet all the while he has led a secret double life designing and fabricating props for over 40 movies and television series. He has made everything from the book Bradley Cooper’s character throws out the window in Silver Linings Playbook, to the titular Book of Secrets … Read more
Tagged film, historical type, prop styling, salon, theater, typography | Leave a commentType ThursdaysNYC
February 20, 2018Crit Club + Drinks + Fun, in New York City. TypeThursday is a monthly meet-up in New York City for people who love letterforms. The events feature networking opportunities and a critique of works in progress led by editorial designer Kara Gordon of Point Five. Event Host Partner: TDC | The Type Directors Club Foundry … Read more
Tagged crit, crit club, Type Thursday, typography | Leave a commentTDC63 Exhibition in Nantes, France
February 15, 2018ECV Nantes is hosting the 63rd Annual Communications Design and 2017 Typeface Design Exhibitions of Type Directors Club in Nantes, France at Galerie Loire, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes. This marks the 25th year that ECV (Ecole de Communication Visuelle) has served as the official sponsor of the Type Directors Club annual exhibition in … Read more
Tagged book design, calligraphy, exhibition, fonts, graphic design, hand lettering, magazine design, posters, tdc63, tour, traveling exhibition, type, typeface design, typography, web design | Leave a commentType Drives Culture
February 5, 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 commentTime is Form. Form is Time— with DIA
January 31, 2018Mitch will describe DIA’s “Input Output” studio approach highlighting the thinking and process behind kinetic identity design and typography. Mitch Paone is the Founder & Creative Director at DIA, a Brooklyn based creative studio specializing in kinetic identity systems, graphic design and typography. Beyond his work with DIA, Mitch is a performing jazz pianist, composer, … Read more
Tagged identity, kinetic design, type, typography | Leave a commentJean François Porchez: The Visible Invisibility of Words
January 31, 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 commentBest of the old/Best of the new: Unifying The Wall Street Journal typography.
January 21, 2018Che Douglas, Global Head of Design at The Wall Street Journal, will discuss the recent undertaking to simplify, standardize and modernize the typography of all WSJ brand experiences. Che Douglas was born in South Australia. He is a graduate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Che was the Founder and Creative Director of … Read more
Tagged newspaper design, salon, typography | Leave a commentLibrary Travelogue with Tobias Frere-Jones
January 3, 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
Tagged fonts, salons, type, type design, type specimens, typography | Leave a commentSee/Hear: The First All-Type Swissted Poster Exhibition
November 21, 2017EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND through March 2 — Type Directors Club is pleased to present “See/Hear”, a collection of all-type posters from New York City designer Mike Joyce’s Swissted project, which combines his fascination with punk rock and modern Swiss type. The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am … Read more
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