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May 27 – June 2, 2012

1/ Change is Good???

Type Masters Week features Gail Anderson for an evening lecture.

When: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Where: TDC Conference Center, 347 W 36th St, Ste 603, NYC

Price: Free TDC members; $20 general public; $15 students, $10 webcast

2/ AIGA/NY 30th Anniversary Party

The New York Chapter board thanks you, our design community, for inspiring and supporting the first 30 years of AIGA/NY – here’s to 30 more. We look forward to celebrating this momentous anniversary with you.

When: Friday, June 1, 2012, 8:30 – 11:00 pm

Where: The Wooly @ The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway between Park Place & Barclay Street, NYC

Price: $125 AIGA/NY Members, $250 general public

3/ Grimshaw

Join Grimshaw at its New York office for drinks, informal conversation, and a behind the scenes look at recent and upcoming projects. Grimshaw was founded by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in 1980. The practice describes its work as the “search for optimal solutions to create a built environment that uses the planet’s resources carefully.” Its current New York projects include Via Verde Greenway affordable housing (with Dattner Architects) in the Bronx, the Fulton Street Transit Center in Manhattan, the Queens Museum of Art expansion, and masterplanning at New York University.

When: Friday, June 1, 2012, 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Where: Grimshaw, 637 West 27 Street, Ninth floor, NYC

Price: Free Architecture League members

4/ Not Amazing and not Groundbreaking but Really Very Decently Good Typography

Armin Vit will present not amazing and not groundbreaking but really very decently good typography

When: Friday, June 1, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Where: The Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, , NYC

Price: Free TDC members, Cooper students; $20 general public; $15 students, $10 webcast

5/ Gail Anderson Type Play Workshop

Jealous of those wonderful “type videos” you see in the TDC annual year after year? Spend a long weekend with SVA instructor Gail Anderson and her always-cheerful co-teacher, Josh Hester, and create your own short motion piece in After Effects. A basic understanding of the software is helpful, but you can amaze your colleagues and children just by making a letter move across the screen, so don’t worry!

When: Friday through Sunday, June 1-3, 2012

Where: TDC Conference Center, 347 W 36th St, Ste 603, NYC

Price: Early Bird (register by May 24): TDC members $595; non-members $695; Regular Fee (register by May 30): TDC members $745; non-members $845

6/ We Made This: Post-Digital Culture and Spanish Design

Come see Cooper-Hewitt’s exhibition Graphic Design—Now In Production and attend public event with leading designers from Spain, the U.S. and abroad. How does design get made in today’s global, connected design world? The convergence of hand processes, traditional printing methods, and digital production are creating new ways to make and consume media. Come participate in the discussion about this rapidly evolving field. Featuring Rodrigo Corral (New York City) Mike Koedinger (Maison Moderne, Luxembourg), Marta Cerda (Barcelona), BROSMIND (Barcelona). Moderators: Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York and Hector Ayuso, Director of OFFF and author of WEMADETHIS.ES

When: Saturday, June 2, 2012, 2:00 pm

Where: Governors Island, NYC

Price: Free and open to the public. Free ferry every half hour starting at 11:00am