NEW YORK, January 5, 2023 — The Type Directors Club (TDC) continues to explore the ways typography is used to form and transform creative communities and the broader culture, this time focusing on Latin America…
In followup to the recent successful Ezhishin conference, the first-ever panel and workshop event dedicated to Native North American typography, the Type Directors Club and Google have announced the creation of the first TDC Ezhishin…
In recognition of its fundamental importance in all forms of communications, Typography, Type Design & Lettering has been added as a separate discipline with its own jury of experts for the 2022 One Asia Creative…
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 — The Type Directors Club, the leading organization for the global type community, this fall will host Ezhishin, the first-ever conference dedicated to Native North American typography. Named after the…
About the Event Briar Levit and Anne Galperin will tell the stories of Ellen Raskin and Betti Broadwater Haft, two New York-based contemporaries: one an illustrator turned book designer, turned author and the other, a…
How have ideas about typography been shaped by culture and technology over the last three centuries, and what is Gretel’s approach today? Dylan Mulvaney is Head of Design at Gretel. His expertise lies in translating…
In this deeply detailed but varied all-day workshop, Elliot will cover a huge spectrum of typographic knowledge, from foundational best practices and definitions to the very latest techniques and technologies for setting great type across…
Screen-based design has grown up, but there’s still so much to keep up with. Best practices for font loading. Licensing fonts for apps. OpenType Variable Fonts. The myriad of places to find new fonts. Elliot…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I am a Pentagram Partner and design identities, environmental graphics, books, promotion and packaging for a wide range of clients.…
NEW YORK, January 24, 2023 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today opened the call for entries for its global Ascenders competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers age 35…
Want to know what it takes to get the coveted best-in-show prize in our annual competition? Last year, Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and Jonny Sikov took home this single coveted prize in their leadership on the…
Meet three of the eight TDC69 Lettering judges: Hussein Alazaat, Huston Wilson, and Ximena Jiménez, and join the discussion on why lettering is having such a hot moment, and how it translates around the globe. …
TDC celebrated 75 years as an organization! Read about our milestones and influence in the co-published Readymag: The Faces Behind Typefaces. This year, Ksenya Samarskaya was appointed as Managing Director—the first position of its…
Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), the acclaimed association that unites the world’s leading creative talents in design, advertising, and illustration, has granted a distinguished membership to Ksenya Samarskaya, managing director at the Type Directors Club. Established…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, announces significant expansion in accepted work and a host of additional changes to its annual awards with today’s…
In preparing for our interview, I reached out to a mutual friend—one that has nothing to do with type or even design, but is in the music scene. He told me he was a fan…
Akira Kobayashi was introduced to the possibilities of type while still at school in his home country of Japan. Students were given regular poster art projects, coinciding with civic initiatives such as road safety week…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced Akira Kobayashi, creative type director at Monotype, as this year’s recipient of its highest honor, the prestigious TDC Medal. First awarded to Hermann Zapf in…
ABOUT THE EVENT: Steven Heller’s recent book GROWING UP UNDERGROUND : A Memoir of Counter Culture New York chronicles the first decade of his 50+ year career as an art director, graphic designer, educator and writer (of…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today announced the 25 talented young winners from 13 countries in the Ascenders 3 competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers age 35 and under.…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, has opened its TDC68 Exhibition of this year’s competition winners in New York, as well as announced this…
The legendary Gail Anderson agreed to judge, host a panel, and be interviewed (she clearly needs to work on establishing boundaries). We are deeply grateful for her generosity and wisdom. We sent out a questionnaire…
Recommended by former Board Member, Zelda Harrison, Bayu was initially hesitant as typography is “more of a side hustle.” Ascenders Chair, Paul Carlos writes: “He’s not only qualified, but he’s also a keen observer, which…
A TypeMedia graduate and frequent collaborator with Commercial Type, Production Type, and Typotheque, we reached out to Hrvoje to provide wisdom and inspiration for the upcoming class of Ascenders. We sent out a questionnaire out…
NEW YORK, March 30, 2022 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced the winners for its two premiere global professional awards programs — TDC68 Communication Design and 25TDC Typeface Design competitions…
TDC has also opened the call for entries for the Beatrice Warde Scholarship, recognizing a female college student globally in their next-to-last year of undergraduate study whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography across current media. The $5,000 scholarship is open to students globally.
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today opened the call for entries for the third edition of its global Ascenders competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers age 35 and under.…
Join Paul Shaw at Poster House for an in-depth exploration of the hand-lettering featured in the museum’s latest exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. Take a close look at the letterforms featured in…
Explore the Victorian-era hand-lettering featured in Poster House’s latest exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property with type historian Patricia Childers. Take a close look at the letterforms this pioneering graphic artist used in her poster…
Poster House is excited to welcome Misha Beletsky for an evening exploring the Cyrillic hand-lettering in The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s. Moderated by Chief Curator Angelina Lippert, this talk will examine how…
How do typography, architecture, and storytelling blend into your studio practice? The studio’s practice evolved naturally from our backgrounds and interests– Andy’s training in the ethnography of inequality and in graphic design, and Waqas’ study…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has renamed its annual BIPOC student scholarship as the Adé Hogue Scholarship, in memory of the talented young designer. The 2022 call for entries for…
TDC is pleased to present the 2022 Edition of Type Drives Culture, our global conference that explores ways in which people use typography to form and transform creative communities, and conversations around contemporary type and…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has further enhanced existing diversity within its leadership with the announcement of seven new TDC Advisory Board members. Starting two-year terms this month, the new members…
Meet the TDC68 Communication Design Jury moderated by competition co-chair Joe Newton. During this panel discussion the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 68th Communication Design competition discuss their work, the state of communication design…
The Type Directors Club (TDC) announced the launch of Type Drives Culture 2022, a global virtual conference on March 4-5, 2022 that will explore the ways typography is used to form and transform creative communities…
Online at typedrivesculture.com on March 4th (12pm to 5pm ET) and 5th (9am to 2pm ET). General Admission is $100 ($85 for Members) and Student Admission is $50 ($45 for Members) The Type Directors Club…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has appointed designer, strategist, and educator Ksenya Samarskaya to serve as its first managing director in the club’s 75-year history. Samarskaya will work alongside Carol Wahler,…