Promoting excellence in typography for over 65 years.
The TDC Events and Salons are held at the Type Directors Club Center,
347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY 10018, unless otherwise noted.
Click here for directions. Seating is limited so please click on an event you’d like
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Type Salon admission is free for members and $20 for non-member professionals
and $15 for non-member students. Admission fees vary for special events.
A Three-part Type Intensive. Every creative professional, including the most seasoned designer, can benefit from learning to communicate more effectively with type. These three sessions will give you the expert-level typographic skills and aesthetics necessary to master your typography, and visibly improve your work.
Workshop 1 June 1–3 Jealous of those wonderful “type videos” you see in the TDC annual year after year? Spend a long weekend with SVA instructor Gail Anderson and her always-cheerful co-teacher, Josh Hester, and create your own short motion …
Armin Vit There are the lucky ones who, through a combination of talented hands and eyes and brains and hard work, can create dazzling typographic compositions that make designers gasp in jealous awe. Then there are the rest of us. …
Workshop 2 June 4 In exploring the creation of a stencil typeface, students will design A–Z or a–z of the Roman alphabet, including numbers. Each letter will be applied to thick card and cut out. Students will apply their new …
Workshop 3 June 5 If you think you’ve got enough energy to be part of this internet-free ants’ nest for one day, you’ll experience that type design can be a thrilling experience if everybody kicks the same ass. We’re gonna …
Workshop 4 June 6th 1. We will start by designing a small number of glyphs and taking them all the way through hinting to browser specimens. (1.5 hours) 2. Then, we will break up into two groups: those who want …
Since the first TDC Greek Week-End in 2007, the demand for new typefaces to cover the Greek script has grown dramatically. The two weekend days will alternate presentations on Greek typography and typeface design targeted specifically to accomplished designers who want to extend their existing Latin typefaces.
