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Events

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HMCT hosts a wide range of programs that bring designers, students, scholars, and the wider public together. From talks and workshops to exhibition openings, guided tours, and community gatherings, our events are designed to spark dialogue and share knowledge across typography, design, language, and visual culture.

For questions about our events, please email hmct@artcenter.edu.

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Events

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Upcoming

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Past

HMCT hosts a wide range of programs that bring designers, students, scholars, and the wider public together. From talks and workshops to exhibition openings, guided tours, and community gatherings, our events are designed to spark dialogue and share knowledge across typography, design, language, and visual culture.

For questions about our events, please email hmct@artcenter.edu.

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Events

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Upcoming

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Past

HMCT hosts a wide range of programs that bring designers, students, scholars, and the wider public together. From talks and workshops to exhibition openings, guided tours, and community gatherings, our events are designed to spark dialogue and share knowledge across typography, design, language, and visual culture.

For questions about our events, please email hmct@artcenter.edu.

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Past

Dictionary of the Illegible with Laurenz Brunner

Talk

Jun 1, 2026, 7pm–8pm
HMCT is pleased to welcome Laurenz Brunner for a presentation and conversation around the ideas behind Dictionary of the Illegible, his newly published book tracing forms of illegible typography across art, music, architecture, subculture,
Abstract illegible typographic symbols on a black background.

From Poster to Alphabet at ATypI

Workshop

May 27, 2026, 9am–1pm
This workshop led by HMCT’s creative team, Lavinia Lascaris and Ximena Amaya will begin with a presentation of original posters curated from the collections of the HMCT Archive. Participants will examine the posters and define methods for “
Poster detail: colorful geometric symbols and numbers on a cream background.

Patterns of the Alphabet with Fer Cozzi

Workshop

Mar 7, 2026, 10am–4pm
Workshop Description The letters in an alphabet are a connected set of shapes rather than isolated drawings. This in-person workshop offers a space for exploring letters through the patterns they create: forms with structure and rhythm that
Overhead view of hands drawing black letterforms on transparent sheets at a workshop table.

Fer Cozzi: On Ideas, Letters, and Other Things

Talk

Mar 4, 2026, 7pm–8pm
Sometimes ideas appear clearly. Other times, they don’t appear at all. This in-person talk is not about how to have good ideas, nor how to avoid bad ones. It might be about observing how ideas accumulate, overlap, and recycle within a proce
White looping letterform strokes on a black background

Type Thursday LA

Community Meetup

Nov 20, 2025, 6:30pm–9:30pm
HMCT is happy to welcome back Type Thursday LA to ArtCenter’s South Campus. Type Thursday is a monthly meetup for designers and typography enthusiasts to learn, share, and connect. Each event begins and ends with time to mingle and network,

Hangeul Truck at ArtCenter

Nov 13, 2025, 10am–2pm
Experience typography and technology inside the Hangeul Truck, a mobile installation that celebrates design and literacy in the Korean language. The truck will be parked at ArtCenter’s 950 South Raymond lot on Thursday, November 13, welcomi
airstream with colorful hangeul letters

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Past

Dictionary of the Illegible with Laurenz Brunner

Jun 1, 2026, 7pm–8pm
HMCT is pleased to welcome Laurenz Brunner for a presentation and conversation around the ideas behind Dictionary of the Illegible, his newly published book tracing forms of illegible typography across art, music, architecture, subculture,
Abstract illegible typographic symbols on a black background.

From Poster to Alphabet at ATypI

May 27, 2026, 9am–1pm
This workshop led by HMCT’s creative team, Lavinia Lascaris and Ximena Amaya will begin with a presentation of original posters curated from the collections of the HMCT Archive. Participants will examine the posters and define methods for “
Poster detail: colorful geometric symbols and numbers on a cream background.

Patterns of the Alphabet with Fer Cozzi

Mar 7, 2026, 10am–4pm
Workshop Description The letters in an alphabet are a connected set of shapes rather than isolated drawings. This in-person workshop offers a space for exploring letters through the patterns they create: forms with structure and rhythm that
Overhead view of hands drawing black letterforms on transparent sheets at a workshop table.

Fer Cozzi: On Ideas, Letters, and Other Things

Mar 4, 2026, 7pm–8pm
Sometimes ideas appear clearly. Other times, they don’t appear at all. This in-person talk is not about how to have good ideas, nor how to avoid bad ones. It might be about observing how ideas accumulate, overlap, and recycle within a proce
White looping letterform strokes on a black background

Type Thursday LA

Nov 20, 2025, 6:30pm–9:30pm
HMCT is happy to welcome back Type Thursday LA to ArtCenter’s South Campus. Type Thursday is a monthly meetup for designers and typography enthusiasts to learn, share, and connect. Each event begins and ends with time to mingle and network,

Hangeul Truck at ArtCenter

Nov 13, 2025, 10am–2pm
Experience typography and technology inside the Hangeul Truck, a mobile installation that celebrates design and literacy in the Korean language. The truck will be parked at ArtCenter’s 950 South Raymond lot on Thursday, November 13, welcomi
airstream with colorful hangeul letters