While it may have been a rainy and unbearable Monday night in NYC, the auditorium at Cooper Union still managed to draw an impressive crowd of creatives. The crowd pleaser? Famed Italian type designer, Tony Di Spigna. His tales of working up the ladder within the Lubalin studio lead to his amusing, yet relatable tales of the designer within us all.

As a designer, he stressed, you should be able to design everything from a stamp to a battleship. Even after a client presentation gone wrong with Yellow Pages, his devotion and passion for typography remained contagious.

Enjoy a few slides from his presentation. His wit and approach to typography is a real aspiration.

“Develop the technology between your ears. Technology doesn’t make a bad idea better.”
—Tony Di Spigna

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Alisha is an Ohio-born, NYC-based designer with an addiction to print.