TDC Awards

The TDC competition, established in 1953, is the longest running, most prestigious, global typography and type design competition. Now in its 70th year, these awards are all about how letterforms are used and drawn, recognizing typographic excellence and celebrating new typeface designs in all global languages.

Award

Agency

Client

Title

Category

Annual ID

Baden-Württemberg Music Centre signage system Agency: büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart Client: Blasmusikverband Baden-Württemberg Category: Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
DOTSSS CHILDREN’S MUSEUM SIGNAGE Agency: PRISM DESIGN STUDIO / Chengdu Client: WIDE HORIZON Category: Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
The Unsceen Agency: Agentur XY GmbH / Berlin + Netflix / Berlin Client: Netflix Category: Other / Non-traditional Media - Single
Two Season Poetry Agency: ZiFu design / Chengdu China Client: Zifu Bookstore Category: Other / Non-traditional Media - Single
Dash Agency: Typotheque / The Hague Client: N/A Category: Variable Font
Dupincel Agency: Plau / Rio de Janeiro + Noo Works / Rio de Janeiro + Consoante / Belo Horizonte Client: Plau Category: Variable Font
Metawhat? Agency: Sharaf Studio + Khajag Apelian Client: The Media Majlis at Northwestern University Qatar Category: Variable Font
Honk Agency: Ek Type / Mumbai Client: Google Fonts Category: Variable Font
Tag der offenen Tür Agency: Neeser Müller Görner / Basel Client: Schule für Gestaltung Basel Category: Print / Posters - Single
New Year's Card 2024 Agency: Studio Matthews / Seattle Client: Personal Category: Print / Printed Ephemera / Cards / Stickers - Single
RTS Cambridge Convention: Too Much To Watch Agency: Studio Kiln / Falmouth + 4creative / London Client: Royal Television Society / Channel 4 Television Category: Motion / Kinetic Typography - Series
Cultural Talents Tournament Agency: Milk Network / Jeddah Client: Ministry of Culture Category: Print / Posters - Series
THE SWAP SHOW EDITION 2 Agency: Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore Client: THE SWAP SHOW Category: Print / Posters - Series
MYOM fluid identity Agency: Landor / Paris + MYOM / London Client: MYOM Category: Print / Posters - Series
2023–2024 Campaign - Diving Inward Agency: Paprika / Montreal Client: National Arts Centre French Theatre Category: Print / Posters - Series
Diagram of rare words Agency: RIFLING / Changsha Client: Alibaba Design Category: Print / Posters - Series
CAO 10th Anniversary Agency: R2 Design / Porto Client: Centro de Arte Oliva Category: Print / Posters - Series
happiness, fortune, longevity Agency: Zhejiang cowin culture creativity co., LTD / huzhou Client: CO-WIN Category: Print / Posters - Series
Variations of Heart Whispers Agency: Qiuyu Li / Osaka + TOMBO Inc. / Osaka Client: Personal Category: Print / Posters - Series
The Book Box Agency: 0. itemzero / Espinho + Maiadouro / Maia Client: 0. itemzero / Maiadouro Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
non nobis vol 2 Agency: büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart Client: Werner Sobek Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Distant Flash Agency: Doris Liu / Queens, NY Client: Self Initiated Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Patterns+Insights: Issue 01, Unbound Agency: Amazon Device and Services Group / Seattle + North / London + Rational Beauty / Austin Client: Amazon Device and Services Design Group Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
ART ATHINA Agency: G Design Studio / Athens Client: PSAT Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
The Puberty Issue Agency: The New York Times Magazine / New York City Client: The New York Times for Kids Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
The Halloween Issue Agency: The New York Times Magazine / New York City Client: The New York Times for Kids Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
The Lives They Lived Agency: The New York Times Magazine / New York City Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Prime Matter BSS Agency: SEMIOTIK DESIGN AGENCY / Athens Client: BSS Consulting Company Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
The Hip Hop Issue Agency: The New York Times Magazine / New York City Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Can-Tini: Espresso Martini in a can Agency: Saint-Urbain Client: Can-Tini Category: Print / Packaging Design - Single
Ludowy Theatre Signage and Wayfinding Agency: Studio Otwarte / Kraków + BB Media / Skarżysko-Kamienna + Spoiwo Studio / Kraków + Ludowy Theatre / Kraków Client: Ludowy Theatre Category: Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Single
Bad Bunny Conquered the World Agency: Rolling Stone Client: Rolling Stone Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
How to have sex in 2023 Agency: Cyla Costa Studio / Curitiba Client: Women's Health Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Calligraphic Editorial Agency: Maria Montes / Melbourne + Middlebury Magazine / Middlebury, Vermont 05753 + Pentagram / Austin Client: Middlebury Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
UKRAINIAN LETTERS (temporary) MUSEUM Agency: Kateryna Korolevtseva / Kyiv Client: Personal Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Beacon of Endurance Agency: Krivanek+Breaux/ Art+Design / Chicago Client: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde Agency: Poster House / New York Client: Poster House Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
A Wild Promise Agency: Plankton Art Co. / Mount Holly, NJ Client: Tin House Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
Maxine Agency: Associate Studio / Brooklyn, NY Client: Maxine Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Cultural Talents Tournament Agency: Milk Network / Jeddah Client: Ministry of Culture Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Courses and Workshops 2023 Agency: Thiago Lacaz / Rio de Janeiro Client: Sesc Avenida Paulista Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Visual identity for Selective Music Agency: Bleed Design Studio / Oslo Client: Selective Music Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Romanian Design Week 2023 Agency: Claudia Draghia / Bucharest + Radu Manelici / Bucharest + Sebastian Anastasiei / Bucharest Client: Romanian Design Week Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Renewing a New York Institution Agency: Wolff Olins Client: New York Botanical Garden Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
TEMPO Agency: Deadinbeirute™ + Plateia D´Ilusões + Shot and Cut Client: PLATEIA D'ILUSÕES Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Brand Identity & Custom Typography Agency: Gretel / Brooklyn Client: Mountain Hardwear Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Identity for Ludowy Theatre Agency: Studio Otwarte / Kraków + Ludowy Theatre / Kraków + BB Media / Skarżysko-Kamienna + Spoiwo Studio / Kraków Client: Ludowy Theatre Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
FUTUR™ Agency: Carme / São Paulo Client: FUTUR™ Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Rosettes Brand Identity Agency: Trackmeet / AUSTIN + Bunkhouse / Austin Client: Rosettes Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Visual Identity for About Bookshop Agency: Neue Gestaltung / Berlin Client: About Bookshop Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart

Blasmusikverband Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg Music Centre signage system

Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series

TDC70_CD131

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

PRISM DESIGN STUDIO / Chengdu

WIDE HORIZON

DOTSSS CHILDREN’S MUSEUM SIGNAGE

Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series

TDC70_CD132

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Agentur XY GmbH / Berlin + Netflix / Berlin

Netflix

The Unsceen

Other / Non-traditional Media - Single

TDC70_CD133

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

ZiFu design / Chengdu China

Zifu Bookstore

Two Season Poetry

Other / Non-traditional Media - Single

TDC70_CD134

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Typotheque / The Hague

N/A

Dash

Variable Font

TDC70_TD033

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Plau / Rio de Janeiro + Noo Works / Rio de Janeiro + Consoante / Belo Horizonte

Plau

Dupincel

Variable Font

TDC70_TD034

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Sharaf Studio + Khajag Apelian

The Media Majlis at Northwestern University Qatar

Metawhat?

Variable Font

TDC70_TD035

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Ek Type / Mumbai

Google Fonts

Honk

Variable Font

TDC70_TD036

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Neeser Müller Görner / Basel

Schule für Gestaltung Basel

Tag der offenen Tür

Print / Posters - Single

TDC70_CD063

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Studio Matthews / Seattle

Personal

New Year's Card 2024

Print / Printed Ephemera / Cards / Stickers - Single

TDC70_CD072

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Studio Kiln / Falmouth + 4creative / London

Royal Television Society / Channel 4 Television

RTS Cambridge Convention: Too Much To Watch

Motion / Kinetic Typography - Series

TDC70_LT002

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Milk Network / Jeddah

Ministry of Culture

Cultural Talents Tournament

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD064

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore

THE SWAP SHOW

THE SWAP SHOW EDITION 2

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD065

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Landor / Paris + MYOM / London

MYOM

MYOM fluid identity

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD066

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Paprika / Montreal

National Arts Centre French Theatre

2023–2024 Campaign - Diving Inward

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD067

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

RIFLING / Changsha

Alibaba Design

Diagram of rare words

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD068

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

R2 Design / Porto

Centro de Arte Oliva

CAO 10th Anniversary

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD069

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Zhejiang cowin culture creativity co., LTD / huzhou

CO-WIN

happiness, fortune, longevity

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD070

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Qiuyu Li / Osaka + TOMBO Inc. / Osaka

Personal

Variations of Heart Whispers

Print / Posters - Series

TDC70_CD071

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

0. itemzero / Espinho + Maiadouro / Maia

0. itemzero / Maiadouro

The Book Box

Publication / Editorial / Book - Series

TDC70_CD118

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart

Werner Sobek

non nobis vol 2

Publication / Editorial / Book - Series

TDC70_CD119

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Doris Liu / Queens, NY

Self Initiated

Distant Flash

Publication / Editorial / Book - Series

TDC70_CD120

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Amazon Device and Services Group / Seattle + North / London + Rational Beauty / Austin

Amazon Device and Services Design Group

Patterns+Insights: Issue 01, Unbound

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD090

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

G Design Studio / Athens

PSAT

ART ATHINA

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD091

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

The New York Times Magazine / New York City

The New York Times for Kids

The Puberty Issue

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD092

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

The New York Times Magazine / New York City

The New York Times for Kids

The Halloween Issue

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD093

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

The New York Times Magazine / New York City

The New York Times Magazine

The Lives They Lived

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD094

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

SEMIOTIK DESIGN AGENCY / Athens

BSS Consulting Company

Prime Matter BSS

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD095

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

The New York Times Magazine / New York City

The New York Times Magazine

The Hip Hop Issue

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD096

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Saint-Urbain

Can-Tini

Can-Tini: Espresso Martini in a can

Print / Packaging Design - Single

TDC70_LT015

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Studio Otwarte / Kraków + BB Media / Skarżysko-Kamienna + Spoiwo Studio / Kraków + Ludowy Theatre / Kraków

Ludowy Theatre

Ludowy Theatre Signage and Wayfinding

Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Single

TDC70_CD127

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Bad Bunny Conquered the World

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_LT019

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Cyla Costa Studio / Curitiba

Women's Health Magazine

How to have sex in 2023

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_LT020

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Maria Montes / Melbourne + Middlebury Magazine / Middlebury, Vermont 05753 + Pentagram / Austin

Middlebury Magazine

Calligraphic Editorial

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_LT021

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Kateryna Korolevtseva / Kyiv

Personal

UKRAINIAN LETTERS (temporary) MUSEUM

Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design

TDC70_CD122

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Krivanek+Breaux/ Art+Design / Chicago

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum

Beacon of Endurance

Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design

TDC70_CD123

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Poster House / New York

Poster House

Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde

Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design

TDC70_CD124

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Plankton Art Co. / Mount Holly, NJ

Tin House

A Wild Promise

Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series

TDC70_LT018

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Associate Studio / Brooklyn, NY

Maxine

Maxine

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD038

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Milk Network / Jeddah

Ministry of Culture

Cultural Talents Tournament

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD039

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Thiago Lacaz / Rio de Janeiro

Sesc Avenida Paulista

Courses and Workshops 2023

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD040

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Bleed Design Studio / Oslo

Selective Music

Visual identity for Selective Music

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD041

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Claudia Draghia / Bucharest + Radu Manelici / Bucharest + Sebastian Anastasiei / Bucharest

Romanian Design Week

Romanian Design Week 2023

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD042

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Wolff Olins

New York Botanical Garden

Renewing a New York Institution

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD043

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Deadinbeirute™ + Plateia D´Ilusões + Shot and Cut

PLATEIA D'ILUSÕES

TEMPO

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD044

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Gretel / Brooklyn

Mountain Hardwear

Brand Identity & Custom Typography

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD045

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Studio Otwarte / Kraków + Ludowy Theatre / Kraków + BB Media / Skarżysko-Kamienna + Spoiwo Studio / Kraków

Ludowy Theatre

Identity for Ludowy Theatre

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD046

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Carme / São Paulo

FUTUR™

FUTUR™

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD047

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Trackmeet / AUSTIN + Bunkhouse / Austin

Rosettes

Rosettes Brand Identity

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD048

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Neue Gestaltung / Berlin

About Bookshop

Visual Identity for About Bookshop

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD049

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