Paul Shaw will lead a walking tour of lettering on the Upper East Side, Carnegie Hall, and Harlem.
11:00am – 2:00pm Sunday 19 October 2008
Since the fall of 2005 Paul Shaw has been leading walking tours of lettering in New York City for the Type Directors Club. There have been seven tours so far and each one has been different. The neighborhoods that have been covered so far are: the Financial District, Tribeca, Civic Center, Midtown, Lincoln Center, Morningside Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Long Island City, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. You may have missed out on one of these tours but New York is vast and there is a huge amount of fascinating lettering to be seen in parts of the city that many of us only know about from traffic reports.
The latest TDC lettering tour will cover parts of the Upper East Side and Harlem. It will begin near Hunter College and finish around 125th Street. As usual we will be looking at a wide mix of lettering styles (classical Roman capitals, Art Deco, versals, blackletter, grotesques, scripts), materials (stone, terracotta, metal, wood, plastic) and techniques (carving, casting, painting). The emphasis will continue to be the historical, social and architectural uses of lettering in New York as well as on aesthetics. These tours are an opportunity to see and learn more about the great city of New York.
Registration is required. Space is limited.
Paul Shaw has been conducting lettering tours for over a decade. From 1997 to 2000 he was co-leader with Garrett Boge of the Legacy of Letters tours of Rome and Florence. Since 2005 he has been leading tours of New York and other American cities for the Society of Typographic Afficionados, GEL, and the Type Directors Club. Paul has written about lettering in New York for the Society of Scribes, AIGA Voice, Letter Exchange Forum, and the TDC Newsletter. In April 2007 he was profiled by Christopher Gray for his Streetscapes column in the New York Times. He has lectured on the subject to the Typophiles, the Society of Scribes, the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York, and the New York Public Library.
If you must cancel for any reason, please notify us via e-mail at director@tdc.org by Thursday 16 October 2008. Your registration fee will be refunded less a processing fee. No refunds will be made after this date.
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