The Latest News
-
June 20, 2017
The World’s Best Typography: TDC63 and TDC2017 Opening Reception
July 18th at The Cooper Union Gallery: Type, drinks, and friends!
The Type Directors Club invites members, its honorees, and the press to the private New York opening of The World’s Best Typography: The 63rd Annual Exhibition of the Type Directors Club. The exhibition features communication design and the selections from the twentieth annual typeface design competition, TDC 2017.
Announcements of the Best in Show, Best in Show Student Awards and Scholarship presentations start at 6:30 PM in the auditorium. We will also present the 30th TDC Medal to Gerard Unger. Over the past 50 years the TDC Medal has been awarded to individuals who excel in the field of typography and typographic design.
Drinks and hors d’ouevres in the foyer.
Exhibition viewing in the gallery.The exhibition runs through August 10, 2017.
This event is sponsored by Monotype and The Cooper Union
-
May 31, 2017
Exhibition—New York Times Magazine Type: 2015–Present
June 1 – September 5, 2017. Make an appointment to see this exhibition curated by Gail Bichler, Design Director of … Read more
-
March 18, 2017
Classic Penguin: The Exhibition
Up through May 25th. The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 … Read more
-
March 16, 2017
TYPO Berlin: Wanderlust, May 25–27, 2017
For more than 20 years running, TYPO BERLIN is Europe’s biggest and most successful design event—and TDC members get a … Read more
-
February 13, 2017
Legacy of Letters 2017 Tour and Workshop with Erik Spiekermann
If you don’t recognize this face you haven’t been paying attention to graphic design, information design, typography and type design … Read more
-
January 27, 2017
Type Over Time
The Type Directors Club 70th anniversary event— a day-long series of typography talks with TDC Medalists and past TDC presidents, followed by an evening reception. Read more
-
January 21, 2017
TDC Judges Night with Janine Vangool and Alice Savoie
Thursday, January 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm! Register online. The TDC annual competitions highlight the best typographic work … Read more
-
November 26, 2016
Time, Craft, Precision, and Beautiful Language: TDC 63 Judge Stewart Devlin
The competition is heating up for TDC 63 and Typography 38 as the December 9th entry deadline approaches. And we … Read more
-
November 11, 2016
Hidden Meanings and Hot Wheels Logos: Talking Type with TDC 63 Judge Xerxes Irani
As the entries pour in for TDC 63 and Typography 38 we are excited to introduce some of the vastly … Read more
-
October 29, 2016
TDC 63 Judges’ Profiles: The Curious Case of Ben Schott
As the TDC 63 /Typography 38 competition entries pour in we are excited to introduce the vastly talented people who … Read more
-
October 14, 2016
LOL Cats and Contamination: Leftloft Designs TDC 63
Italian branding and design consultancy Leftloft talk about their work, and their new look for TDC63, the Type Directors Club annual competition. Read more
-
July 18, 2016
Beatrice Warde Scholarship awarded to Ania Wieluńska
After last year’s inaugural launch of the Beatrice Warde Scholarship, in partnership with Monotype, we are proud to name our … Read more
-
July 13, 2016
TDC62’s Best In Show Goes to Ari Weinkle for Feelers
At our sold out annual award ceremony last night, the Type Directors Club announced that Ari Weinkle has won Best … Read more
-
July 13, 2016
Emigre Wins the TDC Medal
The Type Directors Club is very pleased to award the 29th TDC Medal to Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans of … Read more
-
May 23, 2016
The Lost Art of Type Punch Cutting
The film of the lost art of type punch cutting, initiated by Rod McDonald and Sheridan College in Canada, and … Read more
-
May 16, 2016
Our Typography Ambassador in Havana
With President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March, Americans have been seeing and hearing more about Cuba lately. The … Read more
-
May 11, 2016
TDC Election Results 2016
Matteo Bologna, Chairman of the Board of the Type Directors Club, announced the results of the TDC Annual Election for … Read more
-
May 3, 2016
Adrian Frutiger: A Tribute by Matthew Carter
To commemorate the life and work of Adrian Frutiger, the Type Directors Club asked renowned type designer Matthew Carter to … Read more
-
April 27, 2016
TDC62 & TDC2016 Judges Choices and Opening Reception
We invite ours members, their honorees, and the press to attend a private showing of our 62nd annual typography exhibit, … Read more
-
March 31, 2016
New “TypeVoice” Technology Turns The Spoken Word Into A Custom Font
In celebration of the announcement of the 20th Annual Webby Awards and the opening of People’s Voice on Tuesday, April … Read more
-
March 29, 2016
ATypI 2016 Warsaw Call for Presentations Open Through April 11
The Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) invites submissions of presentations, demonstrations, and workshops for the organization’s upcoming conference to be held … Read more
-
March 24, 2016
America’s last Linotype newspaper
The Saguache Crescent newspaper in Saguache, Colorado, is a family run newspaper, from the 1800s, and also the last American newspaper … Read more
-
March 10, 2016
Judging the TDC62 Competition
Communication design judges (l-r): Robbin Schiff, Jarik van Sluijs, Julia Zeltser, Sagi Haviv, Forest Young, Karen Welman and Darhil Crooks … Read more
-
February 24, 2016
TDC61 global exhibition tour
Image credit: Pinterest place pin map of the TDC61 Traveling exhibits board. As the worldwide traveling exhibition of the sixty-first … Read more
-
February 21, 2016
Pierre Bernard: “Make The Message Your Own”
Esteemed French graphic designer Pierre Bernard died on November 23, 2015. In a career that spanned over 40 years, Bernard … Read more
-
February 19, 2016
Typographics 2016 announced
Typographics – A design festival for people who use type. June 2016, New York City We are excited to hear … Read more
-
February 1, 2016
A Selection of Type and Design Books
A book purchase can be inspired by an impulse, a glancing judgment of the contents page or a cover design. … Read more
-
February 1, 2016
You Will be Jealous of Everything in this Book: The TDC Annual
The TDC annual book of design competition winners, Typography 36, is now available on Amazon. Exacting! Exclusive! A year in … Read more
-
January 20, 2016
TDC Winter/Spring Workshops announced!
This winter/spring we are offering a wealth of diverse typography workshops, salons and more to get your creative juices flowing. … Read more
-
December 9, 2015
Snask’s Make Enemies & Gain Fans
Reading Make Enemies and Gain Fans by self-proclaimed “rock-star” design, branding and film agency Snask is like opening a door … Read more