This weekend marks the beginning of a series of events featuring design at its best: Product Design; Type Design; Graphic Design; Architectural Design; Landscape Design. Conferences, a film series, a marketplace, and more, all combine to inspire the way we think about the world we live in today.

Saturday, June 11, 11am-6 pm

School of Visual Arts Alumni Makers Market. The inaugural market  features over 50 vendors selling innovative commercial products including apparel, accessories and jewelry; furniture, decorative objects and housewares; stationery, self-published books, magazines and comics—all conceived and brought to market by talented School of School of Visual Arts alumni.  Admission is free. Info

Above: Danielle Bliss and Joe Venditti of Wishbone Letterpress, near Kingston, NY, will bring their handprinted cards and invitation to the SVA Makers Market this weekend; photo: Peter Demuth.

Monday, June 13-Thursday, June 23

Typographics, an 11-day design festival devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at The Cooper Union in New York City.
Workshops and Tours: June 13-23 Info
Workshops: June 13-June 20 Info
TypeLab: June 13-June 19 Info More
Conference: June 17-18 Register
Typographic Book Fair: June 16-June 20 Info
Typographics Festival Blog: Info
The Cooper Union, 7 East 7^th Street and 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. Info 

Above: Images of TypeLab and its publications from 1994, with appearances by Erik Spiekermann, Jeff Keedy, Fred Smeijers, David Berlow, and Erik & Petr van Bloklandto name a few. Courtesy of Petr van Blokland. Below: Letterpress workshop, courtesy Erik Spiekermann.

Wednesday, June 15, 6:30 pm

The Center for the Living City presents: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. Founder of the Central Park Conservancy and Jane Jacobs medal winner, landscape designer, landscape preservationist and author, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers will speak about the legacy of author and preservation Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) whose work changed the way the world views and understands cities. This talk is co-sponsored by the Central Park Conservancy, and is part of The Jane Jacobs Centennial Lecture Series. Info

Wednesday, June 15, 8 pm

A Lifetime in Architecture and Design with Beverly Willis and Milton Glaser. Continuing a series of interviews with the subjects of the book, Twenty Over Eighty, designers Aileen Kwun and Bryn Smith sit down to discuss design with two luminaries, drawing on their insights and inspirations for contemporary creative and the next generation of designers. 92|Y, Lexington Avenue at 92^nd Street, NY, NY. Info

June 17-June 30, 7 pm

Midcentury Masters film series. The Museum of Arts and Design presents a series of films exploring the lives and work of a group of post-war architects and designers Harry Bertoia, Lina Bo Bardi, Charles and Ray Eames, and Buckminster Fuller. MAD, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Info