NYC Exhibition
The Ascenders 2019 Exhibition
Congratulations to the Ascenders 2019! Come see their work! The Type Directors Club invites everyone to view examples of the work of ten young designers named Ascenders 2019, the result…
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Presenting the 2019 Ascenders
The board of the Type Directors Club had the difficult task of selecting this group from 130 outstanding designers from 33 countries. The board was impressed with the quality and…
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Type Drives Culture 2019: Part 5 Yotam Hadar
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…
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Type Drives Culture 2019: Part 4 Ksenya Samarskaya
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…
Competitions
Bloco Gráfico of São Paulo Awarded TDC65 Best in Show for Dynamic Poster Series
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…
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Type Drives Culture 2019: Part 3 E Roon Kang
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…
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Type Drives Culture 2019: Part 2 Fiona Ross
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…
NYC Exhibition
TDC65 Exhibition at The Cooper Union in New York City
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…
Interviews
Kris Sowersby
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…
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Type Drives Culture 2019: Part 1 Rich Tu
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…
Special Events
TypeCon 2019
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…
Special Events
Juan Carlos Pagan at TypeCon (+ Facebook Analog Research Lab!)
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,…
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Ron Gordon: The Twilight of Letterpress - New York in the 80s
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…
Exhibitions
TDC65 Exhibition at PJITK in Warsaw
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…
Exhibitions
TDC65 Exhibition at Takeo in Tokyo
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…
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Miguel Reyes: Variation on a Theme
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…
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Manuel Estrada: “Painting with Letters” Exhibition Opening
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:…
Exhibitions
TDC65 Exhibition at ECV in Lille, France
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…
Exhibitions
TDC64 Exhibition in Madrid
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.…
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David Berlow at Google HQ: Beyond The Quest for the Perfect Uppercase Partial Differential
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…
Exhibitions
TDC65 Exhibition in Seoul
Samwon Specialty Paper is currently hosting the “World’s Best Typography” exhibition — the winners of the 65th Annual Communications Design and 2019 Typeface Design competition of Type Directors Club —…
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Jan Tschichold, the TDC, and a Mystery
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…
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May in NYC = Type & Design Month
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…
Special Events
Typographics
WHAT: The 11-day festival is a forum for presentations about graphic design, lettering, web design, publication design, book design, type design, packaging, branding, corporate identity, advertising, and motion graphics. Importantly,…
Exhibitions
TDC64 Exhibition at EASD Soria, Spain
This marks the first time that EASD Soria hosts this exhibition of award-winning work. The exhibition opening was held in conjunction with the 20th celebration of the art school’s Graphic…
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Report from New York: TDC Conference the Most Diverse Ever
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…
Exhibitions
TDC64 Exhibition at ECV Nantes
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…
Salons
Gloria Kundrup and Meryl Vedros: FEMINAE, Typographic Voices: of Women, by Women
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,…
Interviews
Catherine Casalino
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…
Competition
Communication Design 2019
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.
Special Events
Type Drives Culture Conference 2019
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…
NYC Exhibition
Viktor Koen Exhibition: Phenotypes
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.…
Beatrice Warde Scholarship
Audience: Women in Junior Year of Undergraduate Program Award: $5,000 The TDC’s first female member, Beatrice Warde (1900-1969), was a journalist, typographical scholar and communicator on typography, and passionate advocate…
Competitions
Welcome to the Judges of TDC65 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
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…
Interviews
Brian LaRossa
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…
Interviews
Torsten Jahnke
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…
Medal Winner
Fiona Ross
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…
Interviews
Nour Kanafani
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…
Interviews
Synoptic Office
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…