Workshops
and Tours
This year’s Typographics workshops and tours are all being conducted online.
Additional workshops and tours may be announced in the coming days. For updates and announcements, join the Typographics mailing list and follow @TypographicsNYC on Twitter.
Schedule specifics are subject to change.
Tours
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@Home with Hamilton Wood Type, presented by Adobe Fonts
Museum Tour 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Join Hamilton museum staff for a whirlwind tour of the characters that make our collection a must-see for font and design lovers of all kinds. Whizzing pantographs, colossal clowns and three-foot-tall type await you on this on this letter-y excursion. This virtual visit will cross your I’s and dot your T’s!
Tour led by Jim Moran - Master Printer, Stephanie Carpenter - Program Officer, Bill Moran - Partnerships Officer@Home Lettering project workshop 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM (following the tour)
Add to a piece of type history with pencil and paper by taking part in the @Home with Hamilton Wood Type event. The Chromatic American typeface was created circa 1858 by William Page without an @. This event challenges you to create a missing character that William Page would be proud of. Typeface designers Gen Ramírez and Zrinka Buljubašić will lead a design workshop where participants learn learn to draw the commercial at sign #HWT-commercial-at #HWT-ArrobaWorkshop participants will be working on drawing a commercial at sign for HWT American as a fun letter design exercise. This font is featured on the Hamilton Wood Type foundry page.
Tue, July 21, 2020
12:30–3:30pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
FREE
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Production Type Studio Visit with Jean-Baptiste Levée with Jean Baptiste Levée
Jean-Baptiste will introduce some of his favourite type specimens from the Production Type library.
Jean-Baptiste Levée is a typeface designer. He has designed over a hundred typefaces for industry, moving pictures, fashion and media. He is the founder of the independent foundry Production Type. His work has won multiple awards and has been shown internationally in group and solo shows. It is featured in the permanent collections of the French national library (BnF), the Decorative Arts museum of Paris and the National Center of arts (Cnap); of the Newberry Library in Chicago, and several printing museums in Europe. He is a vice president at ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), honorary counselor of the Letterform Archive (San Francisco), and consults as a design expert advisor for the French Public Investment Bank (BPI) where he is contributing to the spread of design in innovative businesses. Levée teaches art direction in typeface design at the Amiens school of Arts & Design and at the Institut Français de la Mode.
Thu, July 23, 2020
9–10am (New York City time, UTC-4)
FREE
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Typographics Père Lachaise Walk with Jean Baptiste Levée
A virtual walk through Paris‘ Père-Lachaise cemetery, having a close look at stone carved letters and styles.
Fri, July 24, 2020
9–10am (New York City time, UTC-4)
FREE
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Hang Out with Cyrus & June of Occupant Fonts with Cyrus Highsmith, June Shin
Hang out in a Zoom meeting with Cyrus and June of Occupant Fonts. They’ll chat about how June got into type design as a student of Cyrus, in a super casual interview. Take a peek inside Cyrus’ awesome garage studio and Occupant Fonts’ latest type specimen board book. Bring questions!
Fri, July 24, 2020
10:30–11:30am (New York City time, UTC-4)
Free
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Ask a type designer! A virtual studio visit with XYZ Type with Ben Kiel, Jesse Ragan
Ever want to ask a type designer what they think about X? Or, how do they do Y? Or possibly, how does one commission Z? Ben Kiel and Jesse Ragan —partners in XYZ Type— will virtually open their studios to answer your questions about typeface design and their practice. They will also show in-progress work and gems from their book collections.
XYZ Type is an independent type foundry established in 2017. Ben and Jesse have worked as typeface designers for over thirty years combined, both as freelancers, other foundries (House Industries and Hoefler & Frere-Jones), and as partners running XYZ Type. They publish retail typefaces, design custom typefaces & logotypes, and dabble in font technology.
Fri, July 24, 2020
10:30am–12pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
Free
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Ask a type designer! A virtual studio visit with XYZ Type with Jesse Ragan, Ben Kiel
Ever want to ask a type designer what they think about X? Or, how do they do Y? Or possibly, how does one commission Z? Ben Kiel and Jesse Ragan —partners in XYZ Type— will virtually open their studios to answer your questions about typeface design and their practice. They will also show in-progress work and gems from their book collections.
Sat, July 25, 2020
10:30am–12pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
FREE
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Hang Out with Cyrus & June of Occupant Fonts with Cyrus Highsmith, June Shin
Hang out in a Zoom meeting with Cyrus and June of Occupant Fonts. They’ll chat about how June got into type design as a student of Cyrus, in a super casual interview. Take a peek inside Cyrus’ awesome garage studio and Occupant Fonts’ latest type specimen board book. Bring questions!
Sat, July 25, 2020
10:30–11:30am (New York City time, UTC-4)
FREE
Details and registration
Workshops
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Choosing the Right Typeface with Tida Tep, Fred Shallcrass
Through a series of lectures, discussions and exercises students learn to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of fonts. They’ll learn about how technology and culture has changed the way we interact with fonts. With an understanding of today’s best practices, students will gain confidence to make better informed decisions.
Sat, June 13, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
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BookFlow with Gustavo Soares
Design development often eats up a big chunk of our time. In book design, this can get quite painful if you have long or messy documents and complex typography ahead. This six-hour workshop will cover a workflow anchored in Planning, Style Mapping, Grep, Grep Styles, Scripts and other powerful InDesign functionalities that result in hundreds, if not thousands, of spot-on typographic pages designed in less than a day.
Mon, June 15, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
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ExhibitFlow with Gustavo Soares
Design development for exhibitions can be demanding. If you are in exhibition design you have probably dealt with Excel and Word documents as sources. Both have pros and cons, but definitely, Word docs are trickier. This intense six-hour workshop will give you strategies and techniques to boost your productivity in both workflows. From preparing documents to producing hundreds or thousands of refined captions, what you will learn here is going to increase your productivity in many other types of projects as well.
Wed, June 17, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
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Designing During Covid-19 with Poster House
Join us for a free special Typographics TypeLab webinar, sponsored by Poster House, with prominent designers Debbie Milliman, Edel Rodriguez, Emily Oberman, Paul Sahre, Jessica Hische, Jennifer Kinon, and Zipeng Zhu for a panel discussion about the impact of COVID-19 on design and the design world’s response to the pandemic.
Thu, June 18, 2020
1–2:30pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
Free
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Micro Typography with Amy Papaelias
Who will sweat the details if we don’t? This one-day workshop will help take your typography skills to the next level of nerdery. Learn about intricate typographic hierarchies and fine-tune long passages of text. Get friendly with OpenType features and the Glyph palette. Dive deep into dashes and hang your punctuation. We’ll even cover how some concepts can be applied to the web. Train your eyes to see like a seasoned typographer, your readers will thank you.
Sat, June 20, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
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Branding with Type with Ellen Lupton
Use your senses to develop a visual system for your own highly personal line of ice cream. Create a menu of visual elements and apply them to a unique product family. Use typography, color, and graphic elements to express sensory delight and explore personal culinary themes (heritage, nostalgia, health, futurism, feminism – you name it). Use this one-day workshop to spark your creativity, find new inspiration, and create a chill portfolio piece. Participants receive copies of Ellen Lupton’s latest books from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Design Is Storytelling and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.
Sun, June 21, 2020
10am–6pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$285
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MagFlow with Gustavo Soares
Magazines are rich typographic environments with intricate hierarchies and endless micro-typography. It sounds and feels great until copy won’t stop changing and teams become minimal. MagFlow is a six-hour workshop that will give you the techniques and strategies to tackle challenging editorial scenarios straightaway. We will use a combination of Character, Paragraph, Nested, Grep and Object Styles to produce resilient templates regardless of the complexity of your typographic decisions or the size of your team.
Mon, June 22, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
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Python for Designers with Maurice Meilleur
Participants in this workshop will learn the basics of writing in Python, a popular and powerful programming language, working in the free and user-friendly application DrawBot for the Macintosh operating system. No previous experience with Python is needed. You’ll create high-quality vector art, and work with text to explore DrawBot’s advanced typographic features. You’ll be able to save your creations as static or moving images (.jpgs and .pngs, animated .gifs and .mp4s), and even export to multipage .pdf files.
Mon–Tue, June 22–23, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$485
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JavaScript for Designers with Gustavo Soares
We all do repetitive tasks in our projects. For some we can save presets, define actions or set shortcuts, but there are others, more unique, that we just hate having to do them over and over again. This six-hour workshop is going to introduce you to the world of building your own productivity tools with Javascript for Adobe apps.
Wed, June 24, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
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Teaching Type on the Web with Amy Papaelias
This one day workshop will help design educators integrate basic web skills and concepts into their typography curriculum or related courses. Topics covered include: an overview of HTML and CSS, general principles of responsive design, using web fonts and web font services, and basic type animation on the web. By the end of this workshop, participants will leave with several simple but effective projects they can use to supplement and enhance typography coursework. While primarily geared towards educators, anyone wanting an introductory overview of using type on the web will benefit from this workshop. No experience with HTML or CSS is required.
Thu, June 25, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
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Teaching Type on the Web with Amy Papaelias
This one day workshop will help design educators integrate basic web skills and concepts into their typography curriculum or related courses. Topics covered include: an overview of HTML and CSS, general principles of responsive design, using web fonts and web font services, and basic type animation on the web. By the end of this workshop, participants will leave with several simple but effective projects they can use to supplement and enhance typography coursework. While primarily geared towards educators, anyone wanting an introductory overview of using type on the web will benefit from this workshop. No experience with HTML or CSS is required.
Sat, June 27, 2020
10am–5pm (New York City time, UTC-4)
$245
Details and registration
Schedule specifics are subject to change.
Additional workshops and tours may be announced in the coming days. For updates and announcements, join the Typographics mailing list and follow @TypographicsNYC on Twitter.
