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Annual exhibition featuring work by Senior Year students in the Design BFA Illustration Program featuring "Obsessions", their Senior Thesis projects, "Superheroes and Villains", a special collaboration with 826NYC/Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., as well as animation, comix, zines, and children's books. This Event runs daily from May 10-14

Is design becoming a more central part of today's brand marketing campaigns? Is it actually beginning to take precedence over advertising? These and other questions will be discussed by top ad/design experts as part of a pre-One Show Design event that is open to all, on the evening of Monday May 10 Hosted by Brian Collins of the COLLINS: design firm along with the design/advertising journalist Warren Berger, the event will feature special guests from several top agencies including R/GA, BBDO, Droga5, HUGE design and others, who will join in a casual discussion. Wine will be served. Special bonus: Those who are attending One Show Design later that evening will be eligible for a free signed copy of Berger's bestselling new book on design and marketing, Glimmer (supply limited; books will be raffled among OSD ticket holders). The discussion will begin promptly at 5:30 at COLLINS: offices located at 71 Fifth Avenue.

One Show Design, now celebrating its tenth year, has become a highly-respected worldwide competition that's unique in the industry for recognizing excellence in design.

Midtown Manhattan is a tourist destination for good reason. It is full of some of the best buildings—and hence best lettering—in the city since it is the heart of 20th c. New York. It is not only the home of Art Deco and Gothic Revivalist skyscrapers but it also contains major churches, hotels and schools that are worthy of the letter-hunter. This is an opportunity to see what you have overlooked during your day-to-day business trips to the area. And to see what the tourists are missing.

11 am to 2 pm Meet in front of Grand Central Terminal across from Pershing Square (42nd Street at Park Avenue). Bring cameras, notebooks, a sandwich, etc. and wear walking shoes.

Paul Shaw is widely known and respected as a guide to urban lettering. With Garrett Boge he co-founded and led the original Legacy of Letters tours of Rome, Florence and Tuscany from 1997 to 2000. On his own he has conducted regular walking tours of lettering in New York City since 2005 for the Type Directors Club and other organizations. He has also led similar tours of Boston, Buffalo and Atlanta for SoTA (the Society of Typographic Aficionados). Paul has been a calligrapher for over 40 years and has designed 18 typefaces. He is the principal of Paul Shaw / Letter Design and teaches calligraphy at Parsons School of Design and the history of typography at the School of Visual Arts. To reserve: payment is due with your reservation Call: 212-633-8943 with your credit card information or Mail your check to: Type Directors Club 347 West 36 Street Suite 603 New York, NY 10018

Please join Art Directors Club, Adobe and Project H Design for a special speaker event. Founded and run by Emily Pilloton, Project H Design connects the power of design to the people who need it most, and the places where it can make a real and lasting difference. Emily has recently traveled across the United States, covering 6300 miles, on a “Design Revolution Roadshow, showcasing 40 products that have been designed to change the world. She will discuss their findings and their initiatives and how it relates to design. Joining Emily will be Lynn Grillo, Manager, Creative Products at Adobe Systems, who will discuss the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite software and show how through the use of the right tools, designers can reach more people, more effectively, in more places, with whatever masterpiece imagined. Come and see how design can change the world and how you can join the revolution.

This exhibit is a silent auction raising money for the TDC Scholarship Fund. Each designer/typographer is being asked to use the vernacular of a classified or personal ad (one of their choosing from a local source or newspaper). Classified print ads are extremely common, but are often ignored or taken for granted. When redesigned, the once banal message will be overpowered with a new typographic and visual language.

Plus:
Tina Roth Eisenberg, swissmiss, will be speaking

Since the 1980s this has been the creative heart of New York City. But instead of looking at design firms and advertising agencies this is an opportunity to walk the streets and see the lettering that helps give these two neighborhoods so much of their charm. Instead of Art Deco we will see a wider range of letterforms dating from the late 19th c. to the 1970s. Even a cemetery.

11 am to 2 pm meet at the Flatiron Building (intersection of Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23rd Street). Bring cameras, notebooks, a sandwich, etc. and wear walking shoes.

Paul Shaw is widely known and respected as a guide to urban lettering. With Garrett Boge he co-founded and led the original Legacy of Letters tours of Rome, Florence and Tuscany from 1997 to 2000. On his own he has conducted regular walking tours of lettering in New York City since 2005 for the Type Directors Club and other organizations. He has also led similar tours of Boston, Buffalo and Atlanta for SoTA (the Society of Typographic Aficionados). Paul has been a calligrapher for over 40 years and has designed 18 typefaces. He is the principal of Paul Shaw / Letter Design and teaches calligraphy at Parsons School of Design and the history of typography at the School of Visual Arts.

You're invited to a one night viewing of new works by:

Eric Han
Menswear
Han is influenced by how geometric shapes are deconstructed when conforming to the human figure.

Jennifer Ipekel
Photography
Ipekel juxtaposes urban life with architectural forms to soften the impact of our environment with humor and human connections through photography. Erica Sanchez Styling & Photography Sanchez' work is influenced by old gypsy tales of the past and brought to life through a series of fashion stories. Maya Zaken Womenswear & Accessories Styling & photography Zaken's pieces are influenced by youth culture and urban city life. Gemma Glasser Paintings & Jewelry Glasser's work is inspired the experience and multiplicity of colors, textures, light and cultural meaning one encounters when watching the sea.

COLLABORATION: MIRKO ILIC AND DANIEL YOUNG

What happens when a designer and a former lawyer decide to take on the problems of the world? Mirco Ilic and Daniel Young have teamed up to be Ralph Nader, Robin Hood, Mother Theresa and maybe even Don Quixote, all rolled into one. They put the "pro" back in pro bono—not only do they create work for free, they actually self-finance the projects for causes they believe in. Even more than making different causes public, these guys like to make trouble. Come and hear about how they infuriated religious leaders in Jerusalem, and how they took their political provocations to the skies over Florida. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention, but for Mirko and Daniel, it is sensitivity, compassion and altruism. For them, that's necessity!

Mirko Ilic Corp. was established in 1995 as a multi-disciplinary studio specializing in graphic design, 3D animation, motion picture titles, and illustration. Mirko has written several books with Steve Heller, including Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design, Handwritten, and The Anatomy of Design. He has also written The Design of Dissent with Milton Glaser. Mirko has taught advanced design classes at the Cooper Union and currently teaches master degree classes in illustration at the School of Visual Arts.

Daniel Young lives and works in New York City. He graduated from Cornell University and Columbia University Law School. He worked as a lawyer in the field of international trade. In 1988 he met Milton Glaser and, under his influence, changed from a lawyer into an inventor and designer. Young founded Paradoxy Products in 2005, a company dedicated to making design objects which cross the borders between fun and philosophy, and between design and art.

Each month, "Collaboration" will examine the process of co-creation; it will look closely at collaborative outcomes as we all learn to work with each other.

Join us to discover the pros and cons of working with experts in our field and others.

The future of fonts as we know them is ever-changing. To help prognosticate, we're collecting some of the industry's leaders and asking them to explain what's coming next, why and how it will effect our everyday. We'll touch on lettering, foundries, collectives, technology and applications as well as web, customization and licensing.

Typographers are a rare and specialized breed, so we'll keep an expert moderator on hand to translate and provoke. Questions for the discussion will be taken via Twitter leading up to and during the event. To pose a question, use the hashtag #freshd or address @freshdialogue.

SPEAKERS

Jessica Hische is a typographer and illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia with a degree in Graphic Design, she worked for Headcase Design before moving to New York to take a position as Senior Designer at Louise Fili Ltd. In September of 2009, after two and a half years of little sleep, lots of gelato, and a ton of hand-lettering, Jessica left Louise Fili Ltd. to pursue her freelance career. She has since started Daily Drop Cap, a year long project that has gained international recognition in which she illustrates an initial cap every (work)day, and also released her first font, Buttermilk, in July of 2009.

Georg Seifert studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar. He works as a software and type designer in Berlin, Germany. His typefaces include Graublau Sans and OliveGreen Mono as well as corporate fonts for clients such as Duravit. For more than four years, Georg has been working on "Glyphs," his own font design application.

Joshua Darden is the founder of Darden Studio, a typeface design studio and consultancy based in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in suburban Los Angeles, Joshua published his first typeface at the age of fifteen. He has developed custom typefaces for Latin-based, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets. He has lectured at the University of California Santa Barbara, has sat on panels at the TypeCon and South by Southwest Interactive conferences, juried the Type Directors Club Type Design Competition, and visited the Rhode Island School of Design as a Guest Critic. Joshua teaches the design and use of typefaces at Parsons School of Design, and has taught the history of typography at School of Visual Arts.

MODERATOR

Matteo Bologna is the founder of Mucca Design, a branding agency based in Manhattan. Born and raised in Milan, Italy, Matteo's grounding in architecture, graphic design, illustration and typography facilitated his early business successes and inspired his decision to create a New York business. He meticulously oversees every project at Mucca Design, as creative director and father figure. Matteo is on the board of directors of the AIGA New York Chapter and is the Chairman of the Type Salons for the Type Directors Club. He is frequently asked to lecture about branding and typography around the world

SU + NINA
A SUNSET PRESENTATION of our SPRING 2010
With a Video Presentation by Colin Snapp
Jewelry by BlackSheepAndProdigalSons
Live Bluegrass Music!