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Type Conference in Mexico!

Letrastica Festival is an international type and design event that celebrates diversity of the voices and eclecticism of ideas. It is a connecting festival for industry, professionals, students, enthusiasts and society.

This edition includes talks, workshops and exhibitions on an international level as well as demonstrations, professional critiques and an open forum. Let's create, share and communicate our love for typography, calligraphy, lettering, design y technology.

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Ritesh will peel back the curtain and detail an inside look at how a rebrand happens from a client perspective. He will also offer advice on how designers, agencies, and in-house teams work more effectively and efficiently together, ultimately leading to more sustainable relationships, revenue, and impact for all parties.

About Ritesh Gupta

Ritesh Gupta recently led a rebrand with Sagmeister & Walsh and R/GA while serving as the Senior Director of Brand & UX at Pet Plate. He began his career at Wieden+Kennedy, working brands like Cooper Hewitt and Equinox, and has since transitioned to working in-house at mission-driven startups.

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Adi will introduce the Hebrew script and share his personal and bumpy path of developing his dual-script (Latin-Hebrew) type family Noam Text. Veronika will give some insights in TypeTogether’s dedication to global typography and the particular challenges of developing Noam Text.

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After years of focusing almost exclusively on client work, Ryan began creating self-initiated type, art and design projects. He will discuss his background and process, and walk through his conceptually-driven work that explores themes of identity and being, hope and togetherness. Ryan enjoys the challenge of evoking thought and feeling from concepts heavily rooted in simplicity and clarity.

About Ryan Carl
Ryan Carl is a multidisciplinary designer who has collaborated on projects with Nike, Google, J.Crew, Warby Parker, MoMA and others. He is currently VP of Design at Boxed.com. Ryan received a Master’s degree in Religion from University of Oxford, before becoming a self-taught designer and running his own studio. His academic background has helped form his design process of radical simplicity and his ideals of designing with purpose and meaning.

Register

Find out what 20,000 type designers and users said.

Join us as Mary Catherine Pflug reveals the results of the fourth annual Font Purchasing Habits Survey. With over 20,000 responses, the survey results are more powerful than ever and an important resource to help type designers and font sellers understand their customers.

These results provide insight into questions faced by the type community today, like how graphic designers perceive type designers, what problems are faced by type users today, and how the market feels about variable fonts. You’ll leave with a snapshot of the industry today, and ideas about where we’re headed next.

Mary Catherine Pflug leads partner operations at Monotype, managing relationships with over 5,000 type designers who distribute their fonts on MyFonts.com, FontShop.com, Fonts.com, and Linotype.com. She is focused on helping type designers grow their businesses. Mary Catherine is located in Boston, and is currently pursuing an MA in Management at Harvard University.

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Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.

For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.

Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

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In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

Over its 20-year history, the DesignThinkers Conference has spanned massive changes in the communication design industry. From print to digital, visual identity to brand, websites to user experiences, design has evolved as new trends, technologies and philosophies transform the wider world. Join us at DesignThinkers Toronto this October, put on by RGD, to explore the innovations and disruptions that inform, inspire and influence design, consider its impact and re-imagine its role as we confront fundamental global challenges.

Conference registration includes presentations by industry leaders, a design marketplace, book signings, giveaways, food and drink at our Delegate Party and a multitude of opportunities to network with top design professionals from around the world.

TDC members receive discounts on their registration. Email director@tdc.org for the discount code.

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Let’s create, share, and communicate our love for typography, calligraphy, lettering, design, and technology at an exciting festival in Mexico!

Letrástica Festival is an independent international type and design event that celebrates diversity of the voices and eclecticism of ideas. It is a connecting festival for industry, professionals, students, enthusiasts and society.

This edition includes talks, workshops and exhibitions on an international level as well as demonstrations, professional critiques and an open forum.

See the schedule of events here.

The list of international type designers and creatives who will be speaking and hosting workshops is here.

Register for type, lettering, and calligraphy workshops here.

Registration information here.

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Typeface design and the implementation of typography has never been more exciting. In many cases, type is presented on monitors, tiny and huge electronic visual displays, i.e., screens.

In collaboration with the Type Directors Club, Design Incubation will moderate a panel discussion among design innovators about their design and use of type in today’s changing environment.

Moderators

Liz DeLuna
St John’s University

Dan Wong
New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Panelists

• Jason Pamental
• Javier Viramontes
• Nancy Campbell
• Ksenya Samarskaya

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Adi will introduce the Hebrew script and share his personal and bumpy path of developing his dual-script (Latin-Hebrew) type family Noam Text. Veronika will give some insights in TypeTogether’s dedication to global typography and the particular challenges of developing Noam Text.

Register

After years of focusing almost exclusively on client work, Ryan began creating self-initiated type, art and design projects. He will discuss his background and process, and walk through his conceptually-driven work that explores themes of identity and being, hope and togetherness. Ryan enjoys the challenge of evoking thought and feeling from concepts heavily rooted in simplicity and clarity.

About Ryan Carl
Ryan Carl is a multidisciplinary designer who has collaborated on projects with Nike, Google, J.Crew, Warby Parker, MoMA and others. He is currently VP of Design at Boxed.com. Ryan received a Master’s degree in Religion from University of Oxford, before becoming a self-taught designer and running his own studio. His academic background has helped form his design process of radical simplicity and his ideals of designing with purpose and meaning.

Register

Find out what 20,000 type designers and users said.

Join us as Mary Catherine Pflug reveals the results of the fourth annual Font Purchasing Habits Survey. With over 20,000 responses, the survey results are more powerful than ever and an important resource to help type designers and font sellers understand their customers.

These results provide insight into questions faced by the type community today, like how graphic designers perceive type designers, what problems are faced by type users today, and how the market feels about variable fonts. You’ll leave with a snapshot of the industry today, and ideas about where we’re headed next.

Mary Catherine Pflug leads partner operations at Monotype, managing relationships with over 5,000 type designers who distribute their fonts on MyFonts.com, FontShop.com, Fonts.com, and Linotype.com. She is focused on helping type designers grow their businesses. Mary Catherine is located in Boston, and is currently pursuing an MA in Management at Harvard University.

Register

Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.

For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.

Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

Typeface design and the implementation of typography has never been more exciting. In many cases, type is presented on monitors, tiny and huge electronic visual displays, i.e., screens.

In collaboration with the Type Directors Club, Design Incubation will moderate a panel discussion among design innovators about their design and use of type in today’s changing environment.

Moderators

Liz DeLuna
St John’s University

Dan Wong
New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Panelists

• Jason Pamental
• Javier Viramontes
• Nancy Campbell
• Ksenya Samarskaya

Register

Adi will introduce the Hebrew script and share his personal and bumpy path of developing his dual-script (Latin-Hebrew) type family Noam Text. Veronika will give some insights in TypeTogether’s dedication to global typography and the particular challenges of developing Noam Text.

Register

After years of focusing almost exclusively on client work, Ryan began creating self-initiated type, art and design projects. He will discuss his background and process, and walk through his conceptually-driven work that explores themes of identity and being, hope and togetherness. Ryan enjoys the challenge of evoking thought and feeling from concepts heavily rooted in simplicity and clarity.

About Ryan Carl
Ryan Carl is a multidisciplinary designer who has collaborated on projects with Nike, Google, J.Crew, Warby Parker, MoMA and others. He is currently VP of Design at Boxed.com. Ryan received a Master’s degree in Religion from University of Oxford, before becoming a self-taught designer and running his own studio. His academic background has helped form his design process of radical simplicity and his ideals of designing with purpose and meaning.

Register

Find out what 20,000 type designers and users said.

Join us as Mary Catherine Pflug reveals the results of the fourth annual Font Purchasing Habits Survey. With over 20,000 responses, the survey results are more powerful than ever and an important resource to help type designers and font sellers understand their customers.

These results provide insight into questions faced by the type community today, like how graphic designers perceive type designers, what problems are faced by type users today, and how the market feels about variable fonts. You’ll leave with a snapshot of the industry today, and ideas about where we’re headed next.

Mary Catherine Pflug leads partner operations at Monotype, managing relationships with over 5,000 type designers who distribute their fonts on MyFonts.com, FontShop.com, Fonts.com, and Linotype.com. She is focused on helping type designers grow their businesses. Mary Catherine is located in Boston, and is currently pursuing an MA in Management at Harvard University.

Register

Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.

For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.

Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

Typeface design and the implementation of typography has never been more exciting. In many cases, type is presented on monitors, tiny and huge electronic visual displays, i.e., screens.

In collaboration with the Type Directors Club, Design Incubation will moderate a panel discussion among design innovators about their design and use of type in today’s changing environment.

Moderators

Liz DeLuna
St John’s University

Dan Wong
New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Panelists

• Jason Pamental
• Javier Viramontes
• Nancy Campbell
• Ksenya Samarskaya

Register

Creating a global typographic language.

Digital communication allows us to reach beyond geographic and typographical barriers. What does it mean to practice design and typography when nationalities, languages, and scripts are in constant interaction? This panel discussion brings together designers whose work stretches beyond Latin typography to share their perspectives on designing for a global world.

Global Typography is the second in a three-part Type x Graphic Design series on global typography and design by AIGA NY and the TDC.

Type designer Ksenya Samarskaya (Samarskaya & Partners) with moderate a panel that includes Wael Morcos (Morcos Key), Chris Wu (Wkshps), and Caspar Lam & YuJune Park (Synoptic Office) to discuss the global aspects of typography. 

register

Celebrate the holiday season with the Type Directors Club at the fabulous new Poster House poster museum on West 23rd Street.

Join us for a convivial typographic evening with wine, hors d’oevres, two poster exhibitions with a curator-guided tour, and a silent auction.

Two exciting exhibitions at Poster House will be open during the party and curator Angelina Lippert will lead a tour of the Ghana movie poster show, “Baptized by Beefcake,” during the party. Also on view are smart, passionate protest posters from the 2017 Women’s March in Boston.

Entry fees and silent auction proceeds will benefit the TDC scholarship fund. Every year the TDC awards scholarships to seven outstanding students of typography.

Many thanks to our party sponsors:
Poster House
Syltbar (prosecco)
Deutsch Family Wines & Spirits
A to A Studio Solutions

register

Adi will introduce the Hebrew script and share his personal and bumpy path of developing his dual-script (Latin-Hebrew) type family Noam Text. Veronika will give some insights in TypeTogether’s dedication to global typography and the particular challenges of developing Noam Text.

Register

After years of focusing almost exclusively on client work, Ryan began creating self-initiated type, art and design projects. He will discuss his background and process, and walk through his conceptually-driven work that explores themes of identity and being, hope and togetherness. Ryan enjoys the challenge of evoking thought and feeling from concepts heavily rooted in simplicity and clarity.

About Ryan Carl
Ryan Carl is a multidisciplinary designer who has collaborated on projects with Nike, Google, J.Crew, Warby Parker, MoMA and others. He is currently VP of Design at Boxed.com. Ryan received a Master’s degree in Religion from University of Oxford, before becoming a self-taught designer and running his own studio. His academic background has helped form his design process of radical simplicity and his ideals of designing with purpose and meaning.

Register

Find out what 20,000 type designers and users said.

Join us as Mary Catherine Pflug reveals the results of the fourth annual Font Purchasing Habits Survey. With over 20,000 responses, the survey results are more powerful than ever and an important resource to help type designers and font sellers understand their customers.

These results provide insight into questions faced by the type community today, like how graphic designers perceive type designers, what problems are faced by type users today, and how the market feels about variable fonts. You’ll leave with a snapshot of the industry today, and ideas about where we’re headed next.

Mary Catherine Pflug leads partner operations at Monotype, managing relationships with over 5,000 type designers who distribute their fonts on MyFonts.com, FontShop.com, Fonts.com, and Linotype.com. She is focused on helping type designers grow their businesses. Mary Catherine is located in Boston, and is currently pursuing an MA in Management at Harvard University.

Register

Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.

For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.

Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

Creating a global typographic language.

Digital communication allows us to reach beyond geographic and typographical barriers. What does it mean to practice design and typography when nationalities, languages, and scripts are in constant interaction? This panel discussion brings together designers whose work stretches beyond Latin typography to share their perspectives on designing for a global world.

Global Typography is the second in a three-part Type x Graphic Design series on global typography and design by AIGA NY and the TDC.

Type designer Ksenya Samarskaya (Samarskaya & Partners) with moderate a panel that includes Wael Morcos (Morcos Key), Chris Wu (Wkshps), and Caspar Lam & YuJune Park (Synoptic Office) to discuss the global aspects of typography. 

register

Celebrate the holiday season with the Type Directors Club at the fabulous new Poster House poster museum on West 23rd Street.

Join us for a convivial typographic evening with wine, hors d’oevres, two poster exhibitions with a curator-guided tour, and a silent auction.

Two exciting exhibitions at Poster House will be open during the party and curator Angelina Lippert will lead a tour of the Ghana movie poster show, “Baptized by Beefcake,” during the party. Also on view are smart, passionate protest posters from the 2017 Women’s March in Boston.

Entry fees and silent auction proceeds will benefit the TDC scholarship fund. Every year the TDC awards scholarships to seven outstanding students of typography.

Many thanks to our party sponsors:
Poster House
Syltbar (prosecco)
Deutsch Family Wines & Spirits
A to A Studio Solutions

register

After years of focusing almost exclusively on client work, Ryan began creating self-initiated type, art and design projects. He will discuss his background and process, and walk through his conceptually-driven work that explores themes of identity and being, hope and togetherness. Ryan enjoys the challenge of evoking thought and feeling from concepts heavily rooted in simplicity and clarity.

About Ryan Carl
Ryan Carl is a multidisciplinary designer who has collaborated on projects with Nike, Google, J.Crew, Warby Parker, MoMA and others. He is currently VP of Design at Boxed.com. Ryan received a Master’s degree in Religion from University of Oxford, before becoming a self-taught designer and running his own studio. His academic background has helped form his design process of radical simplicity and his ideals of designing with purpose and meaning.

Register

Find out what 20,000 type designers and users said.

Join us as Mary Catherine Pflug reveals the results of the fourth annual Font Purchasing Habits Survey. With over 20,000 responses, the survey results are more powerful than ever and an important resource to help type designers and font sellers understand their customers.

These results provide insight into questions faced by the type community today, like how graphic designers perceive type designers, what problems are faced by type users today, and how the market feels about variable fonts. You’ll leave with a snapshot of the industry today, and ideas about where we’re headed next.

Mary Catherine Pflug leads partner operations at Monotype, managing relationships with over 5,000 type designers who distribute their fonts on MyFonts.com, FontShop.com, Fonts.com, and Linotype.com. She is focused on helping type designers grow their businesses. Mary Catherine is located in Boston, and is currently pursuing an MA in Management at Harvard University.

Register

Ten things that drove the design of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface for people with low vision. Winner of the Graphic Design category in Fast Company's 2019 Innovation by Design Awards. 

Register

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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

Register

Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.

For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.

Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

Register

Creating a global typographic language.

Digital communication allows us to reach beyond geographic and typographical barriers. What does it mean to practice design and typography when nationalities, languages, and scripts are in constant interaction? This panel discussion brings together designers whose work stretches beyond Latin typography to share their perspectives on designing for a global world.

Global Typography is the second in a three-part Type x Graphic Design series on global typography and design by AIGA NY and the TDC.

Type designer Ksenya Samarskaya (Samarskaya & Partners) with moderate a panel that includes Wael Morcos (Morcos Key), Chris Wu (Wkshps), and Caspar Lam & YuJune Park (Synoptic Office) to discuss the global aspects of typography. 

register

Attendees will receive the free Hyperlegible type specimen poster! 

Register

Celebrate the holiday season with the Type Directors Club at the fabulous new Poster House poster museum on West 23rd Street.

Join us for a convivial typographic evening with wine, hors d’oevres, two poster exhibitions with a curator-guided tour, and a silent auction.

Two exciting exhibitions at Poster House will be open during the party and curator Angelina Lippert will lead a tour of the Ghana movie poster show, “Baptized by Beefcake,” during the party. Also on view are smart, passionate protest posters from the 2017 Women’s March in Boston.

Entry fees and silent auction proceeds will benefit the TDC scholarship fund. Every year the TDC awards scholarships to seven outstanding students of typography.

Many thanks to our party sponsors:
Poster House
Syltbar (prosecco)
Deutsch Family Wines & Spirits
A to A Studio Solutions

register

Find out what 20,000 type designers and users said.

Join us as Mary Catherine Pflug reveals the results of the fourth annual Font Purchasing Habits Survey. With over 20,000 responses, the survey results are more powerful than ever and an important resource to help type designers and font sellers understand their customers.

These results provide insight into questions faced by the type community today, like how graphic designers perceive type designers, what problems are faced by type users today, and how the market feels about variable fonts. You’ll leave with a snapshot of the industry today, and ideas about where we’re headed next.

Mary Catherine Pflug leads partner operations at Monotype, managing relationships with over 5,000 type designers who distribute their fonts on MyFonts.com, FontShop.com, Fonts.com, and Linotype.com. She is focused on helping type designers grow their businesses. Mary Catherine is located in Boston, and is currently pursuing an MA in Management at Harvard University.

Register

Ten things that drove the design of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface for people with low vision. Winner of the Graphic Design category in Fast Company's 2019 Innovation by Design Awards. 

Register

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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

Register

Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.

For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.

Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

Register

Celebrate the holiday season with the Type Directors Club at the fabulous new Poster House poster museum on West 23rd Street.

Join us for a convivial typographic evening with wine, hors d’oevres, two poster exhibitions with a curator-guided tour, and a silent auction.

Two exciting exhibitions at Poster House will be open during the party and curator Angelina Lippert will lead a tour of the Ghana movie poster show, “Baptized by Beefcake,” during the party. Also on view are smart, passionate protest posters from the 2017 Women’s March in Boston.

Entry fees and silent auction proceeds will benefit the TDC scholarship fund. Every year the TDC awards scholarships to seven outstanding students of typography.

Many thanks to our party sponsors:
Poster House
Syltbar (prosecco)
Deutsch Family Wines & Spirits
A to A Studio Solutions

register

Find out what 20,000 type designers and users said.

Join us as Mary Catherine Pflug reveals the results of the fourth annual Font Purchasing Habits Survey. With over 20,000 responses, the survey results are more powerful than ever and an important resource to help type designers and font sellers understand their customers.

These results provide insight into questions faced by the type community today, like how graphic designers perceive type designers, what problems are faced by type users today, and how the market feels about variable fonts. You’ll leave with a snapshot of the industry today, and ideas about where we’re headed next.

Mary Catherine Pflug leads partner operations at Monotype, managing relationships with over 5,000 type designers who distribute their fonts on MyFonts.com, FontShop.com, Fonts.com, and Linotype.com. She is focused on helping type designers grow their businesses. Mary Catherine is located in Boston, and is currently pursuing an MA in Management at Harvard University.

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Ten things that drove the design of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface for people with low vision. Winner of the Graphic Design category in Fast Company's 2019 Innovation by Design Awards. 

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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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

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Adobe InDesign has come a long way since its transition from CS6 to Creative Cloud. If you’re like most users, many of these changes may have passed you by in your quest to stay afloat as a graphic designer. In this one-day workshop, Adobe Certified Expert and freelance jack-of-all trades Scott Citron will bring you up to speed on where we are and what you’ve missed in the world’s favorite page layout tool.

For questions about the class feel free to contact me at scott@scottcitrondesign.com.

Scott Citron is a print and web designer in NYC. The founder and head of the New York InDesign User Group for over ten years, Scott is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom. From 2008 to 2012 he served on the board of the Type Directors Club, and today continues in his role as an Adobe Community Professional. Scott is also the author or co-author of two books for Adobe Press and co-authored an Adobe Photoshop 5.5 training DVD for video2brain.com in 2010.

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In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

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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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

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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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

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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.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.

Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director at Visual Arts Press at SVA. Anderson is a partner at Anderson Newton Design and serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS and the advisory board for Poster House.

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Typophiles, a group that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking, is inviting everyone to come to their annual holiday luncheon!

Maxim Zhukov, a longtime member and supporter of Type Directors Club, is the featured speaker and will talk about his prolific and influential career in book design.

Tickets to the annual luncheon are $45 in advance and $49 at the door.

???? If you attend, be sure to bring a wrapped book of interest to Typophiles to join in the group’s traditional Holiday Grab Bag.

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In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

Register

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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

Register

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.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.

Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director at Visual Arts Press at SVA. Anderson is a partner at Anderson Newton Design and serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS and the advisory board for Poster House.

Register

Typophiles, a group that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking, is inviting everyone to come to their annual holiday luncheon!

Maxim Zhukov, a longtime member and supporter of Type Directors Club, is the featured speaker and will talk about his prolific and influential career in book design.

Tickets to the annual luncheon are $45 in advance and $49 at the door.

???? If you attend, be sure to bring a wrapped book of interest to Typophiles to join in the group’s traditional Holiday Grab Bag.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

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Type Directors Club Type Socks

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The World’s Best Typography 

The World’s Best Typography (Typography 40) presents the winning designs for the Type Directors Club’s two respected annual competitions: the 65th annual communications design competition (TDC65) and the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. This beautiful 384-page book features over 500 full-color images of international graphic design and type design designed by Hugh Miller of Bond Creative Agency in London.

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Type Directors Club Tote Bag

Black with white-and-red screen printing, matching woven red handles. Designed by Elizabeth Carey Smith & Jones Knowles Ritchie with type by Klim.

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Take advantage of early-bird discounts on conference registration fees until February 1.

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 drives type.

Formation: The Changing Faces of Typography is a day-long conference created to examine the role of design in our systems-based world.

Type Directors Club is organizing this annual Type Drives Culture event with support from the Communication Design programs at Parsons School of Design at The New School.
 

SPONSORS

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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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

Register

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.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.

Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director at Visual Arts Press at SVA. Anderson is a partner at Anderson Newton Design and serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS and the advisory board for Poster House.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

Register

A poster exhibition featuring Adi Stern’s Noam Text.

Resilience, harmony, and progress are concepts that Adi Stern uses to describe his dual script family, Noam Text. The exhibition features posters by fourteen designers and illustrators that use Noam Text, a Hebrew font that builds on its heritage with the twin tools of honor and progress and a type family that enables the interweaving of an English word or sentence amidst Hebrew text, without any disruption — fluently, calmly.

The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm by appointment only.

Call 212-633-8943 or email director@tdc.org for an appointment.

The exhibition is on view through January 30.

Noam Text is available from TypeTogether.

Register

Take advantage of early-bird discounts on conference registration fees until February 1.

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 drives type.

Formation: The Changing Faces of Typography is a day-long conference created to examine the role of design in our systems-based world.

Type Directors Club is organizing this annual Type Drives Culture event with support from the Communication Design programs at Parsons School of Design at The New School.
 

SPONSORS

Register

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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

Register

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.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.

Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director at Visual Arts Press at SVA. Anderson is a partner at Anderson Newton Design and serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS and the advisory board for Poster House.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

Register

A poster exhibition featuring Adi Stern’s Noam Text.

Resilience, harmony, and progress are concepts that Adi Stern uses to describe his dual script family, Noam Text. The exhibition features posters by fourteen designers and illustrators that use Noam Text, a Hebrew font that builds on its heritage with the twin tools of honor and progress and a type family that enables the interweaving of an English word or sentence amidst Hebrew text, without any disruption — fluently, calmly.

The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm by appointment only.

Call 212-633-8943 or email director@tdc.org for an appointment.

The exhibition is on view through January 30.

Noam Text is available from TypeTogether.

Register

Take advantage of early-bird discounts on conference registration fees until February 1.

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 drives type.

Formation: The Changing Faces of Typography is a day-long conference created to examine the role of design in our systems-based world.

Type Directors Club is organizing this annual Type Drives Culture event with support from the Communication Design programs at Parsons School of Design at The New School.

 

SPONSORS

Register

Let’s raise a glass to the end of the decade and celebrate the beginning of a new one!

Come meet the judges of the TDC Communication Design and Type Design competitions and mingle with fellow type and design enthusiasts.

Hosted by the competition chairs, Liz DeLuna, Douglas Riccardi and Juan Villanueva and featuring your judges of TDC66. Read more about each judge here.
 

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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 will take you on a tour through the latest technological developments and help you stay on top of your type game.

Register

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.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.

Designer, writer, and educator Gail Anderson is the chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design at the School of Visual Arts and the creative director at Visual Arts Press at SVA. Anderson is a partner at Anderson Newton Design and serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS and the advisory board for Poster House.

Register

In an intensive one day workshop, Laura will offer participants the possibility of creating the main characters of a typeface based in the principles of modular type design – letters constructed with a limited amount of elements. We will label a message, that will serve to cut out stencils in a resistant material and paint or print them lately as a poster or in a totebag.

GOALS

• To help participants to understand and practice the principles underlying the design of typefaces.
• Set the basis for creating a full alphabet in the future.
• Reflect on the role of typography in the field of identity and experience the design of custom types. All together can be understood as ‘type design as a tool for designers’.

Register

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 multiple media. Drawing on his extensive experience designing for print and screens, Elliot will guide you through the intricacies of using type in a deliberate and effective way, from choosing and pairing typefaces with emotional and technical goals in mind to optimising readability with spacing; from constructing a typographic system to loading fonts on the web; from using the latest OpenType features to designing brands with the help of Variable Fonts; from the ins-and-outs of modern font licensing to where to find your next typographic inspiration.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician, currently serving as the Creative Director of Maido. He was previously the co-founder of the lifestyle magazine Lagom, and is known in typographic circles thanks to his time as Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and founder of typography magazine 8 Faces.

Register