Officers

Chairman

Charles Nix

Charles Nix is a partner in the publishing firm Scott & Nix, Inc. and the Chairman of the Board of the TDC.

President

Diego Vainesman

With more than 20 years of design experience, argentinian born Diego Vainesman started his own desing firm, 40N47 Design, to provide clients with all sorts of design ranging from promotional cards to large environmental graphics identities.

Vice President

Graham Clifford

Graham Clifford is a second-generation typographic designer. He was trained by his father before working for some of London’s best advertising agencies CDP and GGT. He moved to New York in 1989 and plied his craft at Chiat/Day and Ogilvy.

Secretary-Treasurer

Matteo Bologna

Matteo Bologna is the founder and President of New York-based Mucca Design Corporation, where he also serves as Creative Director. Born and raised in Milan, Italy, Matteo’s grounding in architecture, graphic design, illustration and typography facilitated his early business successes and inspired his decision to create a New York agency.

Director

Scott Citron

Scott Citron is an award-winning graphic designer and publishing consultant based in New York City. A designer of fine books, logos, and websites, his clients include Adobe Systems, Random House, HarperCollins Publishers, Walker & Company, the InDesign and Creative Suite Conferences, InDesign Magazine, American Jewish University, and Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.

Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich

Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich is currently principal at his own design firm in NYC specializing in publications, restaurant design and branding.

Director

Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische is a typographer, illustrator, and eater of cake working in Brooklyn, New York.

Director

Sean King

Sean King is currently Design Director of Corporate Communications at Landor Associates, where he oversees a variety of print and digital communications. A self-proclaimed design nerd, he is passionate about both the history and the future of typography and lettering.

Director

Brian D. Miller

Brian Miller is an award-winning designer, author and lecturer who specializes in branding for the Web and print. Brian’s experience spans from being the in-house creative director of Gartner Inc. — a global technology consulting firm — to principal design director of the Brian Miller Design Group.

Director

Ina Saltz

Ina Saltz is an art director, author and professor (of Electronic Design and Multimedia at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and magazine design. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Art Department at CCNY. For over 22 years, Ina was an editorial Design Director at Time Magazine’s International Editions, Worth, Golf Magazine and others.

Director

Scott Valins

Originally from the midwest, Scott Valins threw himself headfirst into a design career as an architect at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. His studio time there led to an erratic multidisciplinary design career.

Executive Director

Carol Wahler

Carol Wahler is celebrating her twenty-eighth year with the Type Directors Club. Ms. Wahler has a type background from working in her families’ businesses that spans starting with the period of ludlow typesetting in the 50′s through today – the digital world.