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Today is the final day to save on early bird registration for our virtual conference #TypeDrivesCommunities. Along with illuminating talks and presentations from top designers from around the world and group discussions with your fellow type enthusiasts, the conference will also be home to TypeSeeing where TDC Members from around the world will be offering visual tours of their home cities, pointing out the typographic forms they see and how it influences their design sensibilities. Find out more and register now: https://bit.ly/3dbGT32

"...the most important thing about printing is that it conveys thought, ideas, images, from one mind to other minds. This statement is what you might call the front door of the science of typography." - Beatrice Warde, 'The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should be Invisible' This #InternationalWomensDay, we're celebrating a pioneer typographer whose love and enthusiasm for our craft lives on today. From advocated for equality in the design industry to championing higher standards in typography, our appreciation for Ms. Warde's contribution is memorialized in the Beatrice Warde Scholarship, sponsored by TDC & Monotype. Learn more about the scholarship and how to enter here: https://bit.ly/3dO2IWP

Join us this Thursday from 1PM EST as Karen Cheng, Professor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Washington, explains her obsessive interest in dissecting type and describes her efforts to create the "perfect" introductory course to type design. Members get free access to the event, register here: https://bit.ly/2Pl8e9n

In keeping with our long-standing tradition of recognizing Art Directors that uphold the values and standards of our profession, Type Directors Club celebrates Roy E. LaGrone, a TDC invited speaker from January 1969. LaGrone, who retired in 1991 as the art director of the Rutgers University Medical School was an Air Force artist who recorded flying missions on canvas. He was commissioned as a flight officer with the Tuskegee's 318th Air Base Squadron in Alabama, and was a me...mber of the 332d Fighter Group, one of four all-Black fighter and bomber squadrons that fought in the European Theater of World War II. His work has been described as a "real tribute", capturing the essence of the Tuskegee Airmen and the US Air Force. In spite of placing his life on the line while on active duty, LaGrone was painfully conscious of racial discrimination, "Here I was, a commissioned officer in the United States Army, an officer and a gentleman, as it were, and in the States I was still forced to sit in the back of the bus." TDC salutes the contribution of this National Treasure during #BlackHistoryMonth.