Meet the Judges III: LGC Judges Day
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…
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Classes and Workshops
Type Design for Non-Type Designers
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…
Classes and Workshops
Let's Make Letters... Together!
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,…
News
TDC Opens Entries for TDC68 Communication and Expanded 25TDC Typeface Design Competitions
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…
Salons
Teaching Yourself Typeface Design for Non-native Scripts with Toshi Omagari
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,…
Salons
Type for Justice with Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid
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…
Special Events
TDC Scholarship Award Day, June 16
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…
News
COLLINS Wins TDC67 Communication Design Best in Show For San Francisco Symphony Brand Identity
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…
News
TDC67 and TD24 Judges Choice and Student Awards Released
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.…
News
COLLINS, Pentagram, The New York Times Magazine Are Top TDC 2021 Award Winners
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…
News
TDC Launches Global “Type Drives Communities 2021” Virtual Conference
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…
Salons
"Person Place Thing" with Gail Anderson
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.…
Salons
Alphabet City: Adrian Wilson
Adrian Wilson will describe how has been combining typography and wordplay to anonymously transform New York’s street and subway signage into world famous tributes, from David Bowery to Aretha Franklin…
Interviews
Douglas Davis
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…
Event video
Meet the Judges, Part 1: 24TDC Type Design Competition
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…
News
New 2021 Advisory Board Reflects Type Directors Club Commitment to Diversity
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…
Special Events
Meet the Judges, Part 2: TDC67 Communication Design Competition
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…
Special Events
Meet the Judges, Part 1: 24TDC Type Design Competition
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…
Interviews
Elaine Lopez
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…
Scholarships
2021 Beatrice Warde Scholarship Competition Deadline March 19 [ARCHIVED]
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…
Scholarships
2021 Superscript Scholarship for BIPOC Graphic Design Students Deadline March 19
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…
Interviews
Ksenya Samarskaya
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,…
Special Events
TDC Medal Presentation to Rubén Fontana
The Type Directors is awarding Rubén Fontana its coveted TDC Medal for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the field of typography. Rubén Fontana was born in Buenos Aires in…
News
TDC Announces Launch and Diverse Juries For Global TDC67 and 24TDC Awards
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…
Event video
Simon Loxley: In Search for Emery Walker
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.…
Competitions
Meet the 24TDC Typeface and TDC67 Communication Design Judges
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…
News
The One Club and Type Directors Club Agree to Merge, Offering Fresh Reset on TDC Programs and Focus
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,…
Special Events
How Type Drives Culture — The National Arts Club @ Home
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…
Medal Winner
Rubén Fontana
The Type Directors Club has announced that Rubén Fontana has been chosen as the recipient of the coveted TDC Medal for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the field of…
News
Type Directors Club Awards the TDC Medal to Rubén Fontana
The Type Directors Club has announced that Rubén Fontana has been chosen as the recipient of the coveted TDC Medal for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the field of…
Building Community
Moving Forward
August 6, 2020 An update from the TDC It is a time of change and transition, and much has happened at the TDC over the last few months. As a…
Classes and Workshops
Jason Pamental: Better Type & Editorial Design w/ Variable Fonts
Part talk, part workshop—this event will introduce attendees to variable fonts (the latest iteration of the OpenType specification) and look at all the ways they can transform how we think…
Interviews
Zan Goodman
We are speaking on Day 50-something of Quarantine. How are you finding it impacting your creativity? Are there any bright sides to it? It certainly feels like Day 1 million.…
Salons
Brenda McManus and Ned Drew: L is for Labor of Love
After their son was born in 2013, Ned and Brenda began to conceive of a meaningful purpose for the collection of type, woodblocks, and line-engraved images that they have been…
Salons
Lubalin Center: Japanese Graphic Design from the Archive
The curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center, Alexander Tochilovsky, will discuss the history of the center and the evolution of its collection. The talk will also focus on a…
Special Events
Online Archive Virtual Happy Hour with Letterform Archive
On April 7, when Letterform Archive launched its Online Archive, a free online resource to all who love letters, no one suspected that it would break the internet! After one…
Salons
Erik Spiekermann: p98a
To kick off our virtual salon series, everyone is invited to join us via Zoom webinar as longtime member, TDC Medalist, and former board member, Erik Spiekermann gives us a…
Salons
Simon Loxley: In Search for Emery Walker
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 was…
News
Help for the Design Community: Resources During the Pandemic
Business Management and Jobs List of design jobs on the TDC site Remote design career coaching and workshops at Design Dept. in San Francisco The AIGA Community Resource hub has…
Event video
Meet the Judges 2020 - Panel Discussion
TDC Judges’ Night 2020 Theresa Lang Auditorium, Parsons School of Design New York, New York January 23, 2020 TDC Communication Design and Type Design competition chairs Liz DeLuna, Douglas Riccardi,…