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…
Broderick “Adé” Hogue was a Chicago-based art director and letterer as passionate about the sport of cycling as he was about the intricacies of design—with a drive to foster diversity in both worlds. Tragically, he…
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,…
In recognition of the typographic flourishing of world scripts and the increasing volume of high-quality typefaces designed each year, TDC is expanding its renowned typeface design competition to include three breakout categories for the Arabic…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, has opened the call for entries and announced juries for its two premiere global awards programs: TDC68 Communication…
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS: TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email director@tdc.org for a code to reveal Members-Only Tickets. ABOUT THE EVENT: Meet the TDC68 Communication Design Jury moderated…
MEMBERS-ONLY BACKSTAGE PASS: TDC Members have the opportunity to join our panelists for a conversation after the panel. Email director@tdc.org for a code to reveal Members-Only Tickets. ABOUT THE EVENT: Meet the second half of the 25TDC…
Get a fun 2-day crash course in type design with Matteo Bologna (mucca.com) in a workshop from the comfort of your couch. About the Workshop March 11th from 9am to 5pm ET and March 12th from 9am…
ABOUT THE EVENT: Even when trapped behind our computer screens, typography behaves as if it were physical: it stretches, it compresses, it thickens, it thins, and animates. In this workshop, Kelcey Gray will guide participants…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, has opened the call for entries and announced juries for its two premiere global awards programs: TDC68 Communication…
Typeface design is about drawing and spacing beautiful letters, which is not as straightforward if you are making one for a script you haven’t grown up with. In this talk, Toshi discusses the ways to…
Isometric Studio partners Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid will share their recent work at the intersection of typography, architecture, and social justice. This includes brand identities and exhibition design projects for major educational and cultural…
The TDC’s first female member, Beatrice Warde, was a journalist, scholar, and passionate advocate of education. Named in her honor and sponsored by Monotype, the scholarship recognizes one female-identifying college junior, whose work demonstrates exceptional…
Branding identity work by COLLINS San Francisco on behalf of the San Francisco Symphony was named Best in Show in the Type Directors Club 67th Communications Design awards. The announcement, along with TDC Judge’s…
We are proud to announce this year’s TDC67 and 24TDC Competitions’ Best in Show winner from COLLINS San Francisco as well as our Judges’ Choice and Student monetary award winners. This year’s TDC67 Communications Design…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, has unveiled the for its two premiere global awards programs: TDC67 Communication Design and 24TDC Typeface Design…
The Type Directors Club (TDC) announced the launch of Type Drives Communities, a global conference that will explore the ways typography is used to form and transform creative communities. Taking place online on May 7-8,…
Join us as Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen interviews the award-winning designer Gail Anderson in a live recording of the popular public radio series from the Type Directors Club. Designer, writer, and educator Gail…
Elizabeth Carey Smith: How has being a parent changed your perspective, from a work standpoint, now that working and parenting are kind of in the same space for you? Douglas Davis: I think, in some…
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 Virtual Salon Ksenya Samarska moderates a discussion with the judges for the Type Directors Club’s 24th Type Design competition, discussing their work, the state of the type scene today, and what…
The Type Directors Club, the leading global typography organization, has enhanced diversity within its leadership with the announcement of a new TDC Advisory Board. The Advisory Board, which includes five new members, is the first…
Meet the TDC67 Judges: Jason Ramirez, Melissa Deckert, Leland Maschmeyer, Leandro Assis, Joyce N. Ho, Marta Cerdà Alimabu, and Jason Sfetko. Moderated by Juan Carlos Pagan. At this event, the judges of the Type Directors…
TDC24 Judges Night w/Peter Biľak, Ryoko Nishizuka, Noël Leu, Agyei Archer, Nadine Chahine, and Sandra García. Moderated by Ksenya Samarskaya. At this event, the judges of the Type Directors Club’s 24th Type Design competition will…
Elizabeth Carey Smith: I thought we could start with the easy questions, haha. What isn’t challenging you right now? Elaine Lopez: Yeah, that’s a hard one. No, I really enjoy teaching. When we’re in the…
View 2023 TDC Scholarships Find the application and related information here. Extended application deadline: March 19, 2021. The Beatrice Warde Scholarship recognizes one female-identifying college student in their penultimate year of undergraduate study, whose work demonstrates exceptional…
Find the application and related information here. Extended application deadline: March 19, 2021. The 2021 TDC Superscript Scholarship sponsored by Monotype recognizes BIPOC students studying type design at a college or university in the United…
I was thinking before this interview, what do I want to understand about Ksenya? And I kind of don’t want to; I love the enigma that is you. KS Hah. Well, the enigma is not intentional.…
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and now part of The One Club for Creativity, has opened the call for entries and announced diverse juries for its two premiere global awards programs:…
Thursday, October 22, 2020 Virtual Salon Emery Walker (1851–1933) inspired and facilitated the private press movement and raised general standards in printing and typography – largely reflected through others’ work. Who was he, what exactly…
Everyone who enters the competition will have the opportunity for their work to be considered by a diverse group of international designers. In January 2021 the group will review a wide range of design –…
The One Club for Creativity, the world’s foremost nonprofit organization whose mission is to support and celebrate the global creative community, announced a merger agreement with the Type Directors Club, the leading global typography organization.…
Founded in 1946, The Type Directors Club celebrates and amplifies the undeniable power of typography. Charles Nix, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Club, will reveal how type and design connect people to ideas,…