Typographics 2017 Photo Gallery

  • Tal Leming's Ohm font was used as the festival's identity, splashed across the western colonade

  • Forest Young, of Wolff Olins presnted about "Type in Stereo"

  • Sebastien Roat selling books

  • Cara Di Edwardo, adjunct professor and co-organizer of the event

  • Aaron Sage, type designer and attendee

  • Ellen Lupton A'85, at right, conducts a conversation with Kara Haupt, Elena Schlenker and Ryan Essmaker

  • Presenter Shiva Nallaperumal talked about a "Typographic Labyrinth"

  • John Downer gives a lesson in sign painting at the TypeLab

  • Karl Heine at the book fair

  • Neon works from "Thieves Like Us," a 2011 collaboration between Commercial Type and designer and artist Dino Sanchez.

  • Nick Cano A'17 in the Monotype lounge

  • Cooper's own Mark Rossi, digital art director at the Center for Design and Typography, and friend

  • Naturally, all the signage used the Ohm font identity too

Typographics, the "design festival for people who use type," hit its third anniversary this year. Co-organized by The Herb Lubalin Study Center and Type@Cooper, the 11-day event includes workshops, tours, a typelab, conference and a book fair. It was the biggest turnout yet, with hundreds of participants registered.

Photos by Marget Long/The Cooper Union

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.