Book Review:
Typography, Referenced
Typography, Referenced. 2012, Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers Haley, Allan; Poulin, Richard; Saltz, Ina: et al. 8.5″ x 10″, hardcover, $50 Comprehensive. That’s the very first word that comes to mind with this remarkable 400-page compilation of information. But that happens …
Maxim Zhukov. Modern Typography: Hi & Lo
In conjunction with the judging of the Type Directors Club’s Type Design Competition of 2012 (TDC² 2012) a special event took place on Thursday, 12 January 2012. The TDC Judges Night 2012 was a panel discussion with the judges Roger …
In aedibus Aldi : Aldus & Co.
Through his scholarship and personal rapport with collaborators such as Erasmus, the printed books of Aldus Manutius (the Latinized name of Teobaldo Mannucci) found new markets in cinquecento Italy and abroad that went beyond the traditionally closed manuscript culture from which they sprang.
Get your hands on a copy of Typography 32
The Type Directors Club is proud to announce the publication of Typography 32. The latest Annual devoted exclusively to typography presenting the finest work in the field from 2010.
Meet the Judges of TDC58, the Type Directors Club Communication Design Competition.
The Type Directors Club competition is recognized worldwide as the premier typography competition. This is due, in part, to the esteemed judges that participate each year. This year is no different. It’s with pride and gratitude that we announce year’s list of judges.
TDC Exhibits in London, October 2011
The exhibition was held at the JWT advertising agency headquarters in Knightsbridge, London. The exhibition marks the start of The Typographic Circle season of talks and events. www.typocircle.com. The exhibition opens with a private view for members and remains on …
TDC Exhibits at ATypI Reykjavik
The TDC exhibits were displayed during the ATypI conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, 14-18 September. Over 250 participants enjoyed the many informative speakers and discussions. Reykjavik was a wonderful city of warm and friendly people.
TDC57 in Madrid until 20 November
TDC57 was hosted by di_mad, Madrid´s designers association. Their site is located at matadero-madrid, an old slaughterhouse recently renewed where different art related events take place. This has been the fifth year displaying TDC exhibitions.
Type Masters Week
From June 6 to June 10, 2011, the Type Directors Club and Font Bureau brought a week of workshops, lectures and a medal to New York City. The week started with Erik Spiekermann receiving the TDC medal. On Tuesday Erik …
57th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition
The evening of Tuesday 19th July 2011 was the opening of Typography 57 at the Cooper Union Gallery and Rose Auditorium in New York City. Attendees included a TDC Medal Winner (Matthew Carter) past presidents (Gary Munch, Klaus Schmidt, Roy Zucca, Daniel Pelavin), current TDC board members, TDC members and winners.
Cooper Type Diary 1: The First Week
Learn about Type@Cooper, the first postgraduate typeface design certification program in North America.
October, 2010
TDC 56 Visits Indonesia
Check out photos of the traveling TDC 56 exhibition in Indonesia.
October, 2010
Salon Video: Duality in Design
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.
Christopher Masonga’s donated Laptop
Whether you are a technophile or a techonophobe, there is no getting around the fact that a computer is an essential design tool in the 21st century. It is hard to imagine a designer working without one. Which brings us …
Book Review: Letterform Collected – A Typographic Compendium
Letterform Collected: A Typographic Compendium is a body of reprinted columns that appeared in Grafik magazine between 2005 and 2009. It is a very pointed look not just at typefaces, but at individual characters.
Book Review: Forms in Modernism: A Visual Set
The idea for this book is wonderfully simple: compare type forms with their contemporary architectural and furniture and clothing styles in order to reveal a “visual landscape of periods of design, where we can detect a common impulse toward form creation.” Smith calls these groups “visual sets.”
Nicolas Jenson’s Typographic Contributions
Jenson’s type has been used continuously since its design in 1470: it has proven its worthiness through many interpretations. Some of Jenson’s offspring are Golden (Morris, 1890), Kennerly (Goudy, 1911), Cloister Old Style (Benton, 1913), Centaur (Rogers, 1915), and Berkeley Oldstyle (Goudy, 1938).
Book Excerpt: Thinking in Type: The Practical Philosophy of Typography
Today’s typographic designer, working in an environment in which there is simply far too much to see and too much to hear, must act as an editor to reduce as well as clarify messages for readers.
Video Review: TDC library gets Frederic W. Goudy home movies
A videotape appeared in the TDC mail recently from Elizabeth S. Manion, the director of the Marlboro Free Library in Marlboro, New York.
Book Review: American Type Design and Designers
Where does type come from? What inspires its design? Are type designers artists? They certainly can be: type design requires extreme and very specific sensitivity. All the type designers I know have a quirkiness that sets them apart from other designers. This book presents practitioners as whole persons and shows their alphabets in the context of their typographic applications.
Book Review: Graphic Design History
Ignorance of design history is rampant and studying it is a pain in the neck. You probably didn’t get much of it in college and if you did, it was probably easier and more fun to concentrate on your studio coursework. No one ever talks about design history or design contextualization on the job. It takes attention and brain cells to absorb and use design history. If you bumped into the beautifully written articles in Graphic Design History when they first ran in design magazines over the past decade, you may have skipped them. Graphic Design History gives you a second chance.
Book Review: Alphabets to Order
“…Typefounders, like graffiti artists, have nothing in particular to say but an overwhelming need to say it.” The book grew out of a pair of lectures Johnston, a Scotsman who teaches at UC Berkeley and edits The Ampersand for the Pacific Center for the Book Arts, gave in 1979 on the roots of concrete poetry and the origins of display typography.
Book Review: Type & Typography
Type & Typography distinguishes itself in a market that recently seems very well-supplied in books on type. Others include David Jury’s About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography, John D. Berry’s Language Culture Type, and Robin Kinross’ Unjustified Texts: Perspectives on Typography.
Body Type 2
Like so many tales of true love, it started with a chance encounter; this one took place aboard a Manhattan crosstown bus on a summer day. One glimpse of the word Hello tattooed in Helvetica on a fellow passenger’s arm and Ina Saltz was a goner, hopelessly hooked on typographic tattoos.
January 2010
Interviews with former TDC Scholarship recipients
We tracked down some former scholarship recipients to see where their talents have taken them, and learn how the TDC was able to contribute to their career development in a small way.
January 2010
- Book Review:
Typography, Referenced - Maxim Zhukov. Modern Typography: Hi & Lo
- In aedibus Aldi : Aldus & Co.
- Get your hands on a copy of Typography 32
- Meet the Judges of TDC58, the Type Directors Club Communication Design Competition.
- TDC Exhibits in London, October 2011
- TDC Exhibits at ATypI Reykjavik
- TDC57 in Madrid until 20 November
- Type Masters Week
- 57th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition
- Cooper Type Diary 1: The First Week
- TDC 56 Visits Indonesia
- Salon Video: Duality in Design
- Christopher Masonga’s donated Laptop
- Book Review: Letterform Collected – A Typographic Compendium