Typographic tours on the sidewalks of Philadelphia!
Saturday 8 December 2007 ::
9:30 am – 5:00 pm
:: Sorry, this class has been cancelled ::
30th Street Station
Market St. between 29th and 30th Sts
Philadelphia, PA
For the first time the Type Directors Club will be hosting an event outside of New York City. Paul Shaw will lead a walking tour of lettering in the city center of Philadelphia on Saturday, December 8. The tour will begin at Pennsylvania Station (30th Street and Broad Street) and end near the Delaware River in the historic waterfront section of the city.
There we will have lunch with John Langdon, the creator of the ambigrams in Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, author of Wordplay, and one of the originators of ambigrams.
After lunch we will continue the lettering tour as we make our way to the design studio of Allemann, Almquist & Jones.
We will finish the day with a tour of the studio and a showing of its work hosted by Hans Allemann, a graduate of the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel and one of the firm's principals.
| 9:30am–9:45am | meet in the waiting room of 30th Street Station, Philadelphia |
| 9:45am–1:00pm | walking tour of lettering in Philadelphia center city |
| 1:00pm–2:30pm | lunch |
| 2:30pm–3:00pm | walk to design studio of Allemann, Almquist & Jones |
| 3:00pm–5:00pm | studio visit at Allemann, Almquist & Jones |
| evening dinner and activities optional |
Registration is required. Space is limited to 15 people.
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.
Northeast corridor service to Philadelphia from Boston, New Haven, New York, Newark, Baltimore and Washington, DC
There is no roundtrip discount for Amtrak (but they do give AAA and other discounts with 3 day advance purchase).
| Amtrak |
| no. 661 Keystone 7 am (NYC) 8:20 am (Phil) $43 |
| no. 79 Carolinian 7:05 am (NYC) 8:33 am (Phil) $43 |
| 2203 Acela Express 8 am (NYC) 9:10 am (Phil) $81 |
| no. 153 Regional 8:05 am (NYC) 9:29 am (Phil) $61 |
| Amtrak return |
| 2220 Acela Express 5:37 pm (Phila) $81 |
| no. 146 Regional 6:20 pm (Phila) $43 |
| no. 672 Keystone 7:10 pm (Phila) $43 |
| no. 192 Regional 7:20 pm (Phila) $43 |
| no. 158 Regional 8:20 pm (Phila) $43 |
| no. 182 Regional 9:15 pm (Phila) $43 |
| no. 198 Regional 10:30 pm (Phila) $43 |
Northeast Corridor line goes to Trenton where you can change to SEPTA to get to Philadelphia; Atlantic City line goes directly to Philadelphia
Connects by rail to Wilmington, Delaware; Newark, Delaware; and West Trenton, New Jersey
The bus does have reduced round trip prices
| Peter Pan Buses (New York Port Authority Bus Terminal) |
| 1671 GLI 6:00 AM (NYC) 8 am (Phil) $21 (midweek price; one-way) |
| 2113 GLI 7:00 AM (NYC) 9:10 AM (Phil) $21 (midweek price; one-way) |
If you must cancel for any reason, please notify us via e-mail at director@tdc.org by Monday 3 December 2007. Your registration fee will be refunded less a $10 processing fee. No refunds will be made after this date.
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