Attendees of the Typographics conference get a 10% discount on Type@Cooper’s workshops from June 10–20.
A promotional discount code will be found on the PDF of your conference ticket. Apply the code during workshop registration to receive your discount.
Tracing the revolution in graphic design in the 1920s, this exhibition displays materials assembled by typographer and designer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974) in Weimar Germany.
Published in Berlin in 1928, Tschichold’s book Die Neue Typographie was one of the key texts of modern design, partly due to its grasp of Constructivist ideas and new print technology, but equally, because it was a manual for practicing designers. In the years leading up to its publication, Tschichold struck up a correspondence with many European artist-designers, including Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Piet Zwart, and Ladislav Sutnar, among others.
A gallery educator will lead this tour.
Wed, June 12,
1–2:30pm
$10
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Join Alexander Tochilovsky on a guided walking tour through one of the most lettering-dense parts of Brooklyn. The path winds through the Fort Greene neighborhood and ends in the adjacent Clinton Hill area. The area’s rich history can be traced through its signs. Along the way, you will encounter all sorts of attractive letters of all shapes and sizes. Each one with a unique story to tell.
Sun, June 16,
10am–1pm
Free
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Alexander Tochilovsky leads a guided walking tour through one of the most lettering-heavy sections of Brooklyn. The tour will focus on Bedford-Stuyvesant with a sliver of Crown Heights. Countless encounters with photogenic pieces of lettering guaranteed!
Sun, June 16,
5–8pm
Free
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Cooper Union’s Herb Lubalin Study Center is a treasure-filled archive of graphic design ephemera by influential designers such as Herb Lubalin, Paul Rand, Massimo Vignelli, and many others. Join the Center’s curator Alexander Tochilovsky for a presentation of selected materials and a glimpse into the highlights of the collection. The event will give participants a rare opportunity to see and handle all of the ephemera as well as to learn about the important background details about the designers and their work.
Mon, June 17,
11am–1pm
$28
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Get an advanced preview of Poster House, the first museum in the country dedicated exclusively to posters. Paul Shaw will take guests on a tour of one of the museum’s inaugural exhibits.
Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/ Nouvelle Femme: As the man who single-handedly popularized Art Nouveau in Belle Époque Paris, Mucha’s work is known and beloved by people who don’t even recognize his name today. We position his work as it developed alongside his professional relationship with the greatest actress of the era, Sarah Bernhardt. He helped to shape her unconventional stardom, and in turn, his sinuous, strong female figures changed how advertising spoke to the viewer.
Mon, June 17,
11am–12:30pm
$10
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Get an advanced preview of Poster House, the first museum in the country dedicated exclusively to posters. Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography [HMCT], will take guests on a tour of one of the museum’s inaugural exhibits.
Designing Through The Wall: CYAN in the 1990s: Founded by Detlef Fiedler and Daniela Haufe in 1992, CYAN is a graphic design collective that emerged out of East Germany soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the same time around the world, access to personal computers expanded exponentially.
Mon, June 17,
1–2:30pm
$10
Details and registration
More tours are being planned and will be announced in the coming days. For updates and announcements, join the Typographics mailing list and follow @TypographicsNYC on Twitter.
During the course, several styles of letter will be taught. Single stroke and built-up versions of both lineale and thick & thin forms will accompany casual styles. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the craft and start to build a set of skills which form a practical foundation for future lettering and typeface design projects. No prior lettering experience is required for admission to this public workshop. Intermediate and advanced students are also encouraged to enroll, as the class also provides an ideal opportunity for skills to be refined.
Mon–Thu,
June 10–13,
9am–4pm
$920
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In this one-day workshop, learn about different kinds of grids and how to use them. We will go through the history of different grid methods, we will be using pencil and tracing paper to analyze in-use grids from magazines and books, and you will learn how to create grids and how to keep your text aligned to them in Adobe InDesign. Come learn how it can be useful to be slightly obsessive! It will make you a better typographer.
Mon, June 10,
10am–5pm
$230
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In this one-day workshop, you will learn how to look at typefaces up close to analyze their details and why they matter, how to pick the best typeface for your project and how to pair it with others. You will have a better insight about language support, legibility studies, different kinds of typeface financing and logistics. All will be communicated through a series of small lectures and practical exercises. At the end of the day, you will be able to make a faster and more informed selection next time yet another client asks for a contemporary, friendly but edgy typeface.
Tue, June 11,
10am–5pm
$230
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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.
Tue, June 11,
10am–5pm
$230
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In this one-day workshop, you will acquire typographic skills on the micro level — how to solve intricate typographic hierarchies, and how to fine-tune long passages of text. You will learn how and when to use various kinds of dashes, get acquainted with OpenType features and get to know all the strange characters in your glyph palette. Come learn how it can be useful to be slightly obsessive! It will make you a better typographer.
Wed, June 12,
10am–5pm
$230
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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 12,
10am–5pm
$230
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Get a crash course in designing type from Matteo Bologna, Creative Director of award-winning studio Mucca Design. Guest instructors, Georg Seifert and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (the masterminds behind Glyphs app) will assist with the introduction of the basic skills necessary for the wild journey into the super fun world of type design. In this class, you will learn the basics of designing and generating a typeface with Adobe Illustrator and the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only).
Thu, June 13,
9am–5pm
$270
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In this one-day workshop, you will learn the basics of augmented reality and about the variety of tools available for playing with images and text in AR. Through a series of lectures and hands-on projects, you will create an augmented type installation around Cooper Union that will be up for the duration of the conference. This workshop is great for designers, art directors, and type enthusiasts of all levels (no AfterEffects or coding experience necessary) who want to explore when and how to augment type. You will leave with a solid understanding of how to bring AR into your practice and some fun new skill in your typographic toolkit!
Thu, June 13,
10am–5pm
$230
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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.
Thu, June 13,
10am–5pm
$230
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Computers love repetition and can quickly make hundreds of variations on a theme, and mistakes in the code can result in something that often times looks better than what was originally intended. With no programming experience necessary, workshop participants will learn the basics of the Python programming language while working in the free DrawBot application for macOS. Using the fundamentals of the Python programming language, students will sketch to create vector art with code and use the basic principles of design to turn their sketches into PDF zines and animated gifs.
Sun, June 16,
10am–5pm
$230
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Using Python scripting, and in particular, the PageBotApp, this one day workshop addresses the parametric production principles of magazines, newspapers, books, corporate identities, websites, (type) specimens and info-graphics. All of these publications types generate from the same source as static PDF export for print, as well as formats for online publishing.
In a sequence of simple exercises, the participants are made accustomed to the process of converting page layouts and content streams into algorithms and conditions.
Sun, June 16,
10am–4pm
Free
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The business life of a typeface designer can be scary! Finding work as a freelancer is hard work. Pricing is a mystery, loaded with awkward conversations and the universal taboo against money-asking. Add to that the arcane minutia of contracts, end-user licensing agreements, invoicing, and collections — it’s amazing any business gets done at all! But business does get done, by the people who have the skills to do it. In this four hour workshop, you’ll learn a set of basic but valuable skills that will help you take care of business. Through a series of short lectures, practice sessions, role-playing exercises, and Q&A, you’ll gain insights that took many of your peers years to learn.
Sun, June 16,
11am–4pm
Free
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Sharpen your lettering skills with this in-depth four-day workshop chock-full of profitable drawing strategies specially formulated to increase the depth and range of your personal and professional work. With over 25 years of experience, Ken Barber of House Industries will share his sure-fire recipes for producing effective and eye-catching wordmarks. Open to students of all skill levels. You can find the materials list on the registration page.
Mon–Thu,
June 17–20,
9am–4pm
$920
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In this 4-day crash course, you’ll learn the basics of Adobe After Effects as well as simple animation principles and their effect on typography, form, and meaning. Through a series of lectures, demos, and hands-on projects, you’ll learn techniques for making your static compositions come to life—how to craft motion styles, how to fine-tune timing, how to tell a story through cause and effect—as well as an overview of After Effects’ arsenal of type-based effects. You’ll leave with a generous foundation in a wickedly fun new discipline, making motion a fundamental addition to your typographic toolkit.
Mon–Thu,
June 17–20,
10am–5pm
$920
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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.
Tue, June 18,
11am–7pm
$270
Details and registration
Schedule specifics are subject to change. For updates and announcements, join the Typographics mailing list and follow @TypographicsNYC on Twitter.
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