Category: Events, Talks & Exhibitions

Jul 14 – Aug 8 2025
$3600
Location to be announced

Type gives form to language and elevates meaning. From the largest corporation to the smallest nonprofit, successful brands harness this power. The Building Brands With Type residency offers design professionals a concentrated study in typography and branding through the lens of type design. Participants will design a typeface attached to a specific brand of their choice. The residency gathers some of the industry’s most talented type-brainiacs to teach letter-based critical thinking. Guest lecturers, workshops, and field trips further enhance the depth and breadth of this immersive experience. Mastering typography gives designers access to design’s most powerful tool. New technologies provide the opportunity to employ type’s expressive capability to shape content and amplify meaning. Participants will increase their typographic competence through the study of letterforms, type history, custom lettering and type design, and then explore this new knowledge through an applied brand identity project that centers on type’s impact. Participants will take away an expanded comprehension of type’s meaning, functionality, legibility and flexibility, and an amplified perspective of the typographic landscape-past, present and future. Design residency faculty have included Yomar Augusto, Matteo Bologna, Chris Caldwell, Tobias Frere-Jones, Cyrus Highsmith, Jessica Hische, Charles Nix, Stephen Nixon, Marie Otsuka, Daniel Rhatigan, Victoria Rushton, Ksenya Samarskaya, Paul Shaw, Elizabeth Carey Smith and Lynne Yun. Guest lecturers and critics have included Gail Anderson, Matthew Carter, Nadine Chahine, Claudia de Almeida, Louise Fili, Steven Heller, Mitch Paone, Daniel Pelavin, Jeff Rogers, Astrid Stavro, Christian Schwartz and Nick Sherman. Program coordinator: Joe Newton. This residency is intended for experienced graphic designers, type teachers, recent design school grads and typophiles wishing to learn more about creating and using type in graphic design for all media.

This course is graded on a pass/fail system. A portfolio is required for review and acceptance to this program. A solid knowledge of vector-based drawing (e.g., in Adobe Illustrator) is highly recommended. All participants with an active registration in this residency will be given free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud and receive a 30-day trial version of the Glyphs type design app (with the opportunity to buy a full version at 50% off).

Monday, March 31 · 12:30 – 2:30pm EDT
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In this talk Jordi Duró will explain how the ‘Cubist’ graphic style invaded Spain in the 1930s. From Conservatives to Revolutionaires and up and down the social ladder, this avant-garde style was embraced by Spanish society in a manner never seen before or afterwards. The Republic’s defeat in the Civil War also became the demise of this style.

Duró has photographed dozens of unpublished pieces from his collection to show how foreign influences were adopted and reinterpreted by a country that desperately wanted to become modern. All of the examples showcase Typograpy and lettering, with emphasis on the letterpress geometric type that gave way to the Super Tipo Veloz.

Jordi Duró studies Graphic Design at Eina School of Design in Barcelona and at Parsons School of Design in New York. As well as journalism at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Creative Director at Duró, a studio specialized in editorial and branding design. He currently teaches at Pompeu Fabra and Eina universities, both in Barcelona. He carries an intense activity as an illustrator and, since the appearance of the newspaper ‘Ara’ almost 14 years ago, he has his own daily graphic opinion section there. He has authored the book ‘Cesc Cartellista’ and the children’s book ‘Bar Zoo Lona’. He accumulates old paper ephemera and lots of R’n’R 45s.

Thursday, April 17 · 6:30 – 8:30pm EDT
The Rose Auditorium, in Cooper Union’s New Academic Building
41 Cooper Square New York, NY 10003

Data graphics wrangle the chaos of data into intriguing forms bursting with clarity. Join RJ Andrews, author of Info We Trust (Visionary Press, 2025), in conversation with Ellen Lupton to discuss charts ranging from simple products of civilization to potent instruments of persuasion.

The event will be followed by a reception in an associated gallery exhibition that traces the evolution of the book and broadens its lens to celebrate the field of information design as a whole. Works by leading figures such as Shirley Wu, Nadieh Brehmer, Nigel Holmes, Zan Armstrong, Mona Chalabi, Giorgia Lupi, Data Vandals, and Kenneth Field showcase today’s expanding visual vocabulary alongside historic examples chosen for aesthetic and thematic resonance.

Copies of Info We Trust will be available for sale.

RJ Andrews is a San Francisco data storyteller, author, and lecturer. By day, he tackles high-stakes problems for clients like The White House and Google. By night, he studies the history of charts, maps, and diagrams. The overlap between Andrews’ hands-on real-world practice and deep historical research gave rise to his new book, Info We Trust. He is also author of Florence Nightingale: Health and Mortality Diagrams and series editor of Information Graphic Visionaries. He has taught his data graphics series at Cooper Union and Letterform Archive.

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Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. Her books include Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. The third edition of her bestselling book Thinking with Type launches in March 2024. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.

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On view: March 22 – April 6, 2025, 12:00 – 7:00 pm daily
Artist Panel event: Sunday, March 30, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 pm (RSVP)
BRIC House Gallery, 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

Thursday, March 27 · 6:30 – 9pm EDT
John L. Tishman Auditorium, The New School
University Center
63 5th Avenue
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AIGA NY presents an open conversation with creative leaders, freelancers, and founders on how motherhood is reshaping the creative industry.

The visual design field thrives on bold ideas, fast-paced deadlines, and the pressure to give it your all. But what happens when we refuse to choose between career and family?

Too many talented women step away from the industry after becoming mothers—not by choice, but because the system isn’t built to support them. It’s time for an honest dialogue about the realities of balancing motherhood and a creative career.

We hope to inspire future mothers, working mothers, and industry leaders to rethink how creativity and caregiving can coexist. This is a conversation that’s long overdue. Opportunities and great design shouldn’t pause simply because we choose to dedicate time to what truly matters: the well-being of the next generation of creatives.

Join moderators Lucie Kim and Carrie Ingoglia in conversation with Ariba Jahan, YuJune Park, and Ida Woldemichael as they explore the challenges, the breakthroughs, and the ways mothers are carving out new paths—creating a more inclusive, sustainable future for all. Whether you’re a mother, planning for the future, or an ally, this conversation is for you.

4 March – 3 May 2025
Ford Foundation Gallery
320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017
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Curated by Brian Johnson and Silas Munro

Reverberations will transform the gallery into an expansive educational space, reimagining design history to feature Indigenous, Black, and People of Color designers and cultural figures. With a dazzling assemblage of historical and contemporary works of art and design by over fifty artists, Reverberations questions the narrative of design tradition as a single dominant line. Reflecting on rich ancestries that reverberate across epochs, alphabets and graphic languages transmit contours of wisdom across cultures. Multidimensional maps reveal layers of experience and counter colonial flattening and erasures. Visual strategies deployed by Black designers are reinforced as motifs in present-day avant-garde data visualizations. And intricate Indigenous traditions of beadwork and textile art weave ancestral knowledge into the future.

Through Oct 18
MoMA
11 West 53 Street, Manhattan
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Design is a fundamental element of life, an enzyme necessary to our evolution. It helps us cope with change and permeates our personal and social lives, embodying both our strengths and weaknesses. Many designers are intent on creating new behaviors, focusing on habits and circumstances most in need of change. Pirouette: Turning Points in Design features objects—from Post-Its to Spanx—that embodied experiments with new materials, technologies, and concepts; offered unconventional solutions to conventional problems; and had a deep impact both on design and the world at large.

Drawn mostly from MoMA’s collection, some of the objects in this exhibition are readily recognizable—like the I ♥️ NY logo or the new Accessible Icon symbol—while others are known only to smaller audiences of fans and experts. Some, like Telfar’s Shopping Bag, dubbed the “Bushwick Birkin,” redraw the rules of exclusivity and luxury. Others, like the Walkman Portable Audio Cassette Player or the Macintosh 128K Home Computer, have changed and expanded our private space, allowing us to invite the world into our homes or to carry it with us. Seen together, the objects in Pirouette highlight the role of designers at their most inventive and constructive, and demonstrate the power of design to translate human experience into tangible forms and envision a better future.

through August 10, 2025
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
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Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design.