Part 5 of 12 Yotam Hadar: “Type: More Bi-Scriptual Than Ever” Type Directors Club Type Drives Culture Conference 2019 . SVA Theatre, New York City March 1, 2019 Video recording sponsored by Google Type Drives…
Part 4 of 12 Ksenya Samarskaya: “Type: More Questionable Than Ever” Type Directors Club Type Drives Culture Conference 2019 . SVA Theatre, New York City March 1, 2019 Video recording sponsored by Google Type Drives…
Bloco Gráfio created the Oficinas de criatividade Sesc Pompéia 2018 set of posters to promote a series of workshops held inside one of São Paul’s most celebrated cultural buildings. Here are the credits: Design: Gabriela…
Part 3 of 12 E Roon Kang: “Type: More Systematic Than Ever” Type Directors Club Type Drives Culture Conference 2019 . SVA Theatre, New York City March 1, 2019 Video recording sponsored by Google Type…
Part 2 of 12 Fiona Ross: “Type: More Examined Than Ever” Type Directors Club Type Drives Culture Conference 2019 SVA Theatre, New York City March 1, 2019 Videotaping courtesy of Google Type Drives Culture is…
Type Directors Club thanks The Cooper Union, Type@Cooper, and the Herb Lubalin Study Center for hosting the New York City debut of The World’s Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club’s 65th…
What book are you reading at the moment? I usually have more than one book on the go. At the moment it’s The Bone People, Printers Type in the Twentieth Century, and The Design Philosophy…
Part 1 of 12 Type Directors Club Type Drives Culture Conference 2019 SVA Theatre, New York City March 1, 2019 Videotaping courtesy of Google TYPE DRIVES CULTURE is the TDC’s annual one-day conference that reflects…
TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts. The majority of the TypeCon program (see below)…
The Type Directors Club and the Society of Typographic Aficionados are pleased to announce that lettering artist and illustrator Juan Carlos Pagan will be giving a special presentation on Thursday, August 29th, as part of…
TDC Salon: “The Twilight of Letterpress: New York in the 80s” with Ron Gordon Type Directors Club, New York April 25, 2019 In the early 1980s Ron Gordon and his associate, Dean Bornstein, traveled around…
Type Directors Club thanks the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJITK) in Warsaw for this year’s Polish debut of The World’s Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club’s 65th Annual Communications Design and…
Type Directors Club thanks the Japan Typography Association and Takeo Paper for the Japanese debut of the World’s Best Typography exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club’s 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface…
TDC Salon: “Variation on a Theme” with Miguel Reyes Type Directors Club, New York April 11, 2019 Type designer Miguel Reyes of Commercial Type explains the ideas and process behind a new condensed display family…
Exhibition opening for “Painting with Letters” exhibition by Manuel Estrada Type Directors Club, New York April 3, 2019 Spanish Designer Manuel Estrada opens his New York exhibition Painting with Letters: Book Covers, Typograms, and Other…
Type Directors Club thanks the École de Communication Visuelle (ECV) Lille for the French debut of the “World’s Best Typography” exhibition, which features award-winning work of the club’s 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface…
Di_Mad (Asociación Diseñadores de Madrid y Fundación Diseño Madrid), Madrid’s leading organization of designers and design firms, is hosting his exhibition of award-winning work at Matadero Madrid through June 30. This exhibition is one of…
David Berlow: “Beyond The Quest for the Perfect Uppercase Differential” Presented by the Type Directors Club at Google HQ, New York City, May 16, 2019 The last 30 years have seen a great growth in…
An exhibition currently on view in New York City celebrates the German designer and typographer Jan Tschichold and reminds us of his prominent position within design history. One gallery in the exhibition Jan Tschichold and…
The Type Directors Club May calendar is particularly full as we join forces with three special design celebrations in New York that spotlight great type and design: The One Club’s Creative Week, an exciting line-up…
It takes a lot for a group of volunteers to put together a day of talks that attendees will enjoy, learn from, and value! But we think his year’s annual Type Directors Club conference did…
The exciting exhibition brings together the creations of established professionals and student work from an international network of schools of graphic design and visual communication. The show highlights the best of current achievements and future…
Gloria Kundrup and Meryl Vedros will present posters curated from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics — a selection that examines issues such as choice, gender inequality, war, and violence…
Let’s tell the studio audience about your career trajectory — I always find fascinating those fortuitous connections that help a young designer grow into their own. I’ve been working in book design in one capacity…
The jury selected 254 professional and student winners from 33 countries. These communication design winners are included in The World’s Best Typography, the Annual of the Type Directors Club, Typography 40, and showcased in 8 exhibitions that are touring cities in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, Spain, and Taiwan.
The Type Directors Club celebrates the undeniable significance of typography around the world. We are a global community of experts and enthusiasts who are united by the shared belief that type drives culture. And culture…
This exhibition explores the cross-section between typography and illustration, and features Viktor’s steam-punkphabet works, his Sciphabet, the Artphabet designed for School of the Visual Arts, and many more inspirational creations. The exhibition is free and…
Every year, we honor up to seven students with the TDC Scholarship, a $1,000 award recognizing their achievements in and appreciation for typography in design. Winners are selected by the TDC Scholarship Committee, which receives…
The TDC’s first female member, Beatrice Warde (1900-1969), was a journalist, typographical scholar and communicator on typography, and passionate advocate of education. Named in her honor and sponsored by Monotype, the scholarship recognizes one woman…
After receiving entries in the TDC65 competitions from students and professionals from all over the world, the Type Directors Club is gearing up for Judges’ Weekend. To get ready, we’d like to acknowledge the group…
You have a career I’d describe as “multi-hyphenate”. How would you describe your professional day-to-day? The majority of my day is spent leading a team of in-house and freelance designers for Scholastic’s education division. We…
Tell us about what your design “day job” entails. How did you end up working there? Music was my first love… I always wanted to start an interview with this quote. It’s a tad bit…
With her background in languages and her PhD in Indian Palaeography (SOAS), Fiona Ross began working at Linotype in the United Kingdom in 1978. She became Linotype’s first female manager when she assumed leadership of…
Nour! I’m so glad we could connect. You’ve been a TDC member for a few years now. How long have you been a practicing designer? I published my first professional project in 1996, I was…
Your studio, Synoptic Office, is a true design ‘practice’ – your work is exploratory and collaborative. Tell us how you got started in your design partnership? We first met in grad school at Yale. It…
The TDC is a sponsor partner of Type@Cooper, the post-graduate typeface design program at The Cooper Union. Tell us about your experience with Type@Cooper. What did you make? Who were your teachers? I’ve said this…
Usually when you read about people in film and television, they often seem to take a circuitous route to their current careers. You rarely hear of someone majoring in title design in college, so what…
How did this crazy whirlwind begin? Were you a graphic designer first? Was type always your goal and/or interest? If my interest in type had been clear from the start, it might have sped things…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work My name is Graham Weber, and I am a 14-year-old aspiring type designer, graphic designer, and art director ferociously studying…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – what you do and where you work I’m a British designer, typographer and art director currently based in New York, where I’ve run my studio for the…