Promoting excellence in typography for over 65 years.
Chris is a Designer and design junkie. His professional experience includes work in Typography, Graphic Design, Architecture, Environmental Design, Industrial Design, Interactivity and Motion Graphics. He also has a strong interest in the history and criticism of design and visual …
Several lectures on eye opening topics, Gestalt psychology in relation to letterforms, eye test, brain test, before and after examples. Hands on optimizing type in the context of logos. Class requirements: Students should have Illustrator or any other outline drawing …
One place where we see some good hand lettering is the supermarket. Over there, hand lettering works best because if it’s good enough, nobody notices it. During this one-day workshop, we will explore some lettering used typographically, dig deep and …
Drawing with bézier curves or vectors can be frustrating, especially for the beginner. In this workshop, Cyrus Highsmith will share his tricks and strategies for drawing, editing, and thinking with the bézier drawing tools found in applications like FontLab and …
I get asked this question a lot. My answer is always fairly vague: there’s history, fashion, technology, experience, users to consider. Most of these parameters are subjective. A few things, however, can be established by looking closer. What is Bold …
In 2009 Verena Gerlach made two visits two Algiers, the capital of Algeria. She got invited by the Goethe Institute and was supposed to run two workshops for the design students of the École de Beaux Arts. While staying in …
Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer and author of books and articles on type and typography. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. In 1979 he founded MetaDesign and in 1989 …
In 1997 Cyrus Highsmith graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and joined the Font Bureau. As Senior Designer, he concentrates on development of new type series. A faculty member at RISD, he teaches typography in the department of Graphic …
Ale Paul is one of the founders of the Sudtipos project, the first Argentinean type foundry collective. Ale’s career as an art director landed him in some of Argentina’s most prestigious studios, and handling such high-profile corporate brands as Arcor, …
Luc(as) de Groot (1963, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. He then spent four years with the Dutch design group BRS Premsela Vonk, mainly on corporate identity work. In the meantime, he taught at the Art Academy in Den Bosch and freelanced before moving to Berlin in 1993 to join MetaDesign for another four years.
Although rarely studied in today’s classroom, commercial engraving for print is a vital element in the practical history of graphic design, typography, and media studies.
Jim Wasco will discuss the making of Elegy, his award winning new typeface design, based on the ITC logo designed by Ed Benguiat ~1970. Jim will discuss his background in lettering and passions for eighteenth century American Spencerian script. It starts with a brief peek into Jim’s background and early lettering jobs related to copperplate calligraphy.
Learn about Type@Cooper, the first postgraduate typeface design certification program in North America.
Check out photos of the traveling TDC 56 exhibition in Indonesia.
In this video series from the TDC, Will Staehle talks about how everything good in design comes in twos, and how professional work can inform your personal work and vice versa.
