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March 6 – March 12, 2011

1/ Type Design as a Second Career: W.A. Dwiggins Starts Over at Age 49

Place Dwiggins’ type design efforts into the context of his wide-ranging career as a commercial artist, examining the impact of calligraphy, historical typefaces, stencils, marionettes and book design on his typefaces.

When: Monday, March 7, 2011, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Where: Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square at East 7th Street, NYC

Price: Free and open to the public

2/ Tales From the Borderlands of Typographic Experience

If you’ve ever seen a page of the Talmud, with its interlocking blocks of type on every page, you may have wondered why it was made that way and how it was constructed. What do these books have tell us about the possibilities for today’s books, both in print and, especially, new forms of e-books? Scott-Martin Kosofsky, who will talk about some of his recent breakthroughs and experiments, reviving and reinterpreting old ideas and working out new ones.

When: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, NYC

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

3/ Laurie Anderson

Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson creates large-scale theatrical works that combine music, video, storytelling, projected imagery and sculpture. Her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, as well as extensively in Europe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou.

When: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 8:15 pm

Where: 92Y Arts Center, Buttenwieser Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, NYC

Price: $16 CAA members or teachers, $26 general public

4/ Web Design for Print Designers: Typography Basics Using CSS

Join author, designer and TDC board member Brian Miller for an introduction to the possibilities of type on the web using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

When: Friday, March 11, 2011, 9:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Where: TDC Conference Center, 347 W 36 Street, Suite 603, NYC

Price: $275 TDC members, $350 general public

5/ Art and Collage in Tibetan

Come and learn about Tibetan Contemporary Art with Master Artist Tenzing Rigdol. Learning about Classical and Contemporary Tibetan Art by making your own works.

When: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Where: Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens NY

Price: Free and open to the public. RSVP required.