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All lectures are free to attend and will be presented as Zoom webinars and live-streamed on The Cooper Union YouTube channel. The series is sponsored by Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union College, New York City.

“Letraset and other brands of rub-down type literally put typography in the hands of the people. Rub-down type made it possible for students, professionals, and everyone else to design with real typefaces, without needing professional typesetting services. A cheap and easy way to experiment with typography and other graphic elements, Letraset put a lot of care into making type easy to use well, but it also resulted in a lot of ways to use type badly, but with interesting results. With some care and attention, however, it was a great way to develop an eye for typography.”

Mark Jamra explains his design of a Cherokee font in his talk at The Cooper Union.

In this talk at the Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union on March 24, 2015 Andy Clymer explains how he used a modern font editor like Robofont to create the special lighting effects of the typeface Obsidian.