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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

ArtNight in Pasadena

Oct 9, 2026, 6pm–10pm
Join us for the Fall 2026 edition of Art Night, the popular Pasadena-wide celebration of cultural institutions, events, and performances. Free shuttle rides will operate throughout the night and food trucks are available at some locations.

Dimensional Typography with Rob Stenson

Workshop

Jun 6, 2026, 10am–4pm
Have you ever wanted to set type in three dimensions? This one-day workshop will focus on just that: building and animating typography in three dimensions using the open-source program Blender and the open-source Blender extension ST2, whic
3D scene in Blender showing scattered white letterforms on a blue platform with interface panels visible

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

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Past

ArtNight in Pasadena

Oct 9, 2026, 6pm–10pm
Join us for the Fall 2026 edition of Art Night, the popular Pasadena-wide celebration of cultural institutions, events, and performances. Free shuttle rides will operate throughout the night and food trucks are available at some locations.

Dimensional Typography with Rob Stenson

Jun 6, 2026, 10am–4pm
Have you ever wanted to set type in three dimensions? This one-day workshop will focus on just that: building and animating typography in three dimensions using the open-source program Blender and the open-source Blender extension ST2, whic
3D scene in Blender showing scattered white letterforms on a blue platform with interface panels visible

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