These five sessions are the first in what is planned as an on-going series of classes devoted to covering the history of type and typography from Gutenberg to Emigre.
Tuesday Evenings
10, 17, 24 October; 7, 14 November 2006
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
TDC Conference Center
Type Directors Club
127 West 25th Street, 8th floor
New York, NY 10001
The classes will look at the pre-Gutenberg history of calligraphy and inscriptional letters that still influences type today, the changing technology of type manufacture and its effect on type design, the major type designers of the past and present, the development of typographic conventions, the naming and classification of typefaces, typographic styles, and more. The classes will be a mixture of lecture and seminar with some demonstrations. Field trips to letterpress print shops, type design studios, major libraries, and exhibitions will be included as extra sessions whenever possible.
Paul Shaw teaches typography, calligraphy, the history of graphic design, and the history of typography at design schools in the New York metropolitan area. He is the principal of Paul Shaw / Letter Design, a studio specializing in all forms of lettering, calligraphy and typography. He has designed 17 typefaces for LetterPerfect including Old Claude, Kolo, Bermuda and Donatello. With Peter Bain he co-curated Blackletter: Type and National Identity and co-wrote the accompanying monograph and catalogue. Paul co-led four Legacy of Letters tours of Rome, Florence and Tuscany with Garrett Boge from 1997 to 2000. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including ones from the Smithsonian Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Academy in Rome. He is currently trying to complete a biography of W.A. Dwiggins.
If you must cancel for any reason, please notify us via e-mail at director@tdc.org by the Friday before the session. Your registration fee will be refunded less a $10 processing fee. No refunds will be made after this date.
TDC :: Type Directors Club
127 West 25th Street 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001
USA
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