A typographic-fine arts journey through cemeteries around the world. When we travel to new cities we want to learn and absorb from their cultures. We walk their streets, go to their markets and visit their museums. Modern museums display objects of artistic and cultural significance for the public. For centuries, cemeteries have offered all this, and the combined artistic palette of typography, fine art, and architecture based on the local history.

As part of The Herb Lubalin Study Center and Type@Cooper's Herb Lubalin Lecture Series, Type Directors Club’s past presidents Diego Vainesman and Gary Munch explore the unique palette of more than 80 cemeteries, including: Recoleta (Buenos Aires), Mirogoj (Zagreb), The Magnificent Seven (London), and the Longhua Martyrs (Shangai), among many others. Just as Type is Alive, the souls of those departed are forever remembered in these living museums.

Registration is required. Attendees are required to show proof of complete COVID-19 vaccination and booster and must wear a CDC-recommended mask (disposable surgical, KN95, KF94, or N95) while indoors. 

Diego Vainesman runs his own design studio 40N47 Design, Inc. in New York City. In addition to teaching design and branding workshops in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, he also teaches at MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts. Vainesman was the first Latin president of the Type Directors Club (TDC), and developed Master classes for the different audiences. He designed the 25th Annual of the TDC50’s competition, and served as the Chairman of the TDC52’s competition and judge of the 68th competition. He is also the Club’s Latin American liaison and recently published, through Kickstarter, the book, Logo: the face of branding. His clients include: American Express, Art Deco Society of New York, Canon, Hotel Palacio del Inka, Hotel Paracas, Hotel Tambo del Inka, IBM, New York State Democratic Committee, Pfizer, Print Magazine, Saturn, Subaru, The Bronx High School of Science, and Zenith Optimedia.

Gary Munch has been captured by type and letterforms for years. Hand-setting in college, internalizing the ducti for Latin scripts, picking and clicking in Fontographer, then FontLab, he still sees type as a device for communication first. For some time he has been teaching in the wilds of Connecticut's Fairfield County, coaxing others to see how type and text works and looks best. He was on the board of the TDC 2000-2008, and made Candara in collaboration with the Clear Type team at Microsoft, and Ergo & Really for Linotype (now Monotype). His website is madly out of date.