Typographics 2022

Fri, Jun 17, 12pm - Sat, Jun 18, 2022 6pm

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Typographics, the annual festival on the contemporary use of type organized by The Cooper Union’s Type@Cooper and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, returns for its eighth year this summer. The 2022 Festival is back in person for the MainStage talks and a mix of online and in person events at The Cooper Union. Festival dates are June 13–23 with the MainStage Conference being held on June 17 and 18. TypeLab returns again as an online event (but with an in-person component for in-person conference goers). Workshops, tours, a book fair and other special events make the festival are in the works. 

Located in The Great Hall, in the Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues

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  • 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.