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.
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Agency
Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
Jardins de Métis Poster 2022
Agency: Principal / Montreal + Jardins de Métis / Grand-Métis
Client: Jardins de Métis Category: Best of Lettering
Alex and Lilani discover the world of letters
Agency: Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich PPKS + Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg Blinden- und Sehbehindertenpädagogik + Hochschule der Künste Bern Institute of Design Research
Client: Dot, dot, comma, dash (Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich PPKS) Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
BIFT GRADUATION WORKS BA, CLASS OF 2022
Agency: mintbrand / Beijing
Client: BIFT Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Bismut logo
Agency: perfectly boring studio / Kyiv + Anastasiia Shcherban / Kyiv
Client: Bismut Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Samson
Agency: Seven / Auckland
Client: Samson Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Folke Nikanor – A Typographic Table Setting
Agency: Bedow / Stockholm
Client: Sing a Song Fighter Records Category: Other
The Painting Biography of the Mustard Seed Garden
Agency: Beijing Artron Art Printing co.,ltd
Client: Chongqing University Press Category: Other
Typescapes
Agency: Daniel Frumhoff Design / New York
Client: Personal Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Silvana typeface exhibition
Agency: Formal Settings / Berlin + Paleworks / Berlin + Blaze Type / Lyon
Client: Buchstabenmuseum (Berlin Letter Museum) Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Shapa Soweto
Agency: Futura Joburg / Johannesburg
Client: Nike Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Degrees of Love in Arabic Language
Agency: Zayed University / Dubai
Client: Personal Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
A Mountain of History.
Agency: SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo + sora inc. / Tokyo + NIHON LITERAL Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo
Client: SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / SEIBIDO Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
The Year of Language 2022
Agency: Ariane Spanier Design / Berlin + Franke | Steinert / Berlin
Client: Klassikstiftung Weimar Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Vienna Typeface
Agency: ricardodesign / Kirchbichl
Client: Personal Category: Digital / Technology / Social Media - Series
Marienlyst Display
Agency: ANTI / Oslo + The Pyte Foundry / Ellmer Stefan / Oslo / Oslo
Client: Ferd / Marienlyst Category: Variable Font
Word Paintings
Agency: Judith Mayer Creative LLC / Chicago + Architreasures / Chicago
Client: Architreasures Category: Other
NIMA Museum and cultural platform
Agency: ESH gruppa / Tbilisi
Client: NIMA Museum and cultural platform Category: Other
AC Typographic Art Collection
Agency: House Industries / Wilmington, Delaware + Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea / Milano
Client: Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea Category: Other
Biodiversity is Nature's Way
Agency: Jen Roos + 8 Point Studio / New York + Mercy College / New York
Client: Personal Category: Other
Play With Fire Candle
Agency: ThoughtMatter / New York, New York
Client: ThoughtMatter Category: Other
ELLA
Agency: Laura Meseguer / Barcelona + Type-Ø-Tones / Barcelona
Client: Laura Meseguer (Personal project) Category: Superfamily (non-related styles)
November South Asia
Agency: Typotheque / The Hague
Client: Typotheque Category: Superfamily (non-related styles)
Stuff Type Suite
Agency: Monolith / Auckland + Designworks / Auckland
Client: Stuff Category: Superfamily (non-related styles)
LTR Principia*
Agency: LettError / The Hague
Client: Personal Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Grandiflora
Agency: JAMO
Client: Google Fonts Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Uvas Display
Agency: Nils Dam Nordlund / Copenhagen
Client: Personal Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Zaatar Typeface
Agency: Boharat type foundry / Cairo
Client: Boharat type foundry Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Cumbre
Agency: Antipixel type studio / Buenos Aires
Client: N/A Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Best of Discipline
Agency:
Principal / Montreal + Jardins de Métis / Grand-Métis
Client:
Jardins de Métis
Title:
Jardins de Métis Poster 2022
Category:
Best of Lettering
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT000T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Best of Discipline
Agency:
Morcos Key / New York
Client:
Mizna
Title:
I WANT SKY
Category:
Best of Typography
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY000T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Best of Discipline
Agency:
Universal Thirst / Bangalore/Reykjavík
Client:
N/A
Title:
Ilai
Category:
Best of Type Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD000T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich PPKS + Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg Blinden- und Sehbehindertenpädagogik + Hochschule der Künste Bern Institute of Design Research
Client:
Dot, dot, comma, dash (Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich PPKS)
Title:
Alex and Lilani discover the world of letters
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY111T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
mintbrand / Beijing
Client:
BIFT
Title:
BIFT GRADUATION WORKS BA, CLASS OF 2022
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY112T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
perfectly boring studio / Kyiv + Anastasiia Shcherban / Kyiv
Client:
Bismut
Title:
Bismut logo
Category:
Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY027T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Seven / Auckland
Client:
Samson
Title:
Samson
Category:
Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY028T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
afterimage / Zagreb
Client:
Type Today
Title:
Generative January
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY125T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Bedow / Stockholm
Client:
Sing a Song Fighter Records
Title:
Folke Nikanor – A Typographic Table Setting
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY126T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Beijing Artron Art Printing co.,ltd
Client:
Chongqing University Press
Title:
The Painting Biography of the Mustard Seed Garden
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY127T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
RAJSHREE SARAF / Brooklyn
Client:
N/A
Title:
Typespace
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY128T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
W studio / Paris
Client:
Personal
Title:
Giallo
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY129T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Liad Shadmi
Client:
N/A
Title:
The Alphabetical Room
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY130T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Morcos Key / New York
Client:
Self initiated
Title:
Wild Flowers
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY131T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Daniel Frumhoff Design / New York
Client:
Personal
Title:
Typescapes
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY114T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Formal Settings / Berlin + Paleworks / Berlin + Blaze Type / Lyon
Client:
Buchstabenmuseum (Berlin Letter Museum)
Title:
Silvana typeface exhibition
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY115T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Futura Joburg / Johannesburg
Client:
Nike
Title:
Shapa Soweto
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY116T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Zayed University / Dubai
Client:
Personal
Title:
Degrees of Love in Arabic Language
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY117T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo + sora inc. / Tokyo + NIHON LITERAL Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo
Client:
SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / SEIBIDO
Title:
A Mountain of History.
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY118T
Award:
2023 Typography TDC Winner
Agency:
Ariane Spanier Design / Berlin + Franke | Steinert / Berlin
Client:
Klassikstiftung Weimar
Title:
The Year of Language 2022
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY119T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
ricardodesign / Kirchbichl
Client:
Personal
Title:
Vienna Typeface
Category:
Digital / Technology / Social Media - Series
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT002T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Reina Akkoush
Client:
Personal
Title:
Yasar
Category:
Variable Font
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD049T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
TypeTogether
Client:
TypeTogether
Title:
Atlante
Category:
Variable Font
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD051T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Universal Thirst / Bangalore/Reykjavík
Client:
N/A
Title:
Ilai
Category:
Variable Font
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD052T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
ANTI / Oslo + The Pyte Foundry / Ellmer Stefan / Oslo / Oslo
Client:
Ferd / Marienlyst
Title:
Marienlyst Display
Category:
Variable Font
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD053T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Cyla Costa Studio + Naipe Foundry
Client:
Personal
Title:
Juma Color Font
Category:
Color Font
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD030T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
DIGRAPH / Tokyo
Client:
Personal
Title:
NATURE/CODE/DRAWING
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT032T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Rozi Zhu / New York City
Client:
N/A
Title:
Ferrofluid Type
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT033T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Judith Mayer Creative LLC / Chicago + Architreasures / Chicago
Client:
Architreasures
Title:
Word Paintings
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT034T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
EIGA / Hamburg
Client:
EIGA Design
Title:
Upcycled with love
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT035T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
ESH gruppa / Tbilisi
Client:
NIMA Museum and cultural platform
Title:
NIMA Museum and cultural platform
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT036T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Clément Cases / London
Client:
Personal
Title:
36 days of type 2022
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT037T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Class Tao / Chengdu
Client:
Personal
Title:
Coral Typography Tool
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT038T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
House Industries / Wilmington, Delaware + Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea / Milano
Client:
Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea
Title:
AC Typographic Art Collection
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT039T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Class Tao / Chengdu
Client:
Shin-Yi Martial Art Club
Title:
Shin-Yi
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT040T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Class Tao / Chengdu
Client:
Embryo Vinyl Album
Title:
Embryo
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT041T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Jen Roos + 8 Point Studio / New York + Mercy College / New York
Client:
Personal
Title:
Biodiversity is Nature's Way
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT042T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Hye Yeon Nam / Baton Rouge
Client:
Self-promotion
Title:
Living Typography
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT043T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
ThoughtMatter / New York, New York
Client:
ThoughtMatter
Title:
Play With Fire Candle
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT044T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Zixuan Zhang
Client:
Personal
Title:
To Scry: A Portal to Re-enchantment
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT046T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Laura Meseguer / Barcelona + Type-Ø-Tones / Barcelona
Client:
Laura Meseguer (Personal project)
Title:
ELLA
Category:
Superfamily (non-related styles)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD043T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
TypeTogether
Client:
TypeTogether
Title:
Rezak
Category:
Superfamily (non-related styles)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD044T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
TypeTogether
Client:
TypeTogether
Title:
Portada Arabic
Category:
Superfamily (non-related styles)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD045T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Typotheque / The Hague
Client:
Typotheque
Title:
November South Asia
Category:
Superfamily (non-related styles)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD046T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Monolith / Auckland + Designworks / Auckland
Client:
Stuff
Title:
Stuff Type Suite
Category:
Superfamily (non-related styles)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD047T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
LettError / The Hague
Client:
Personal
Title:
LTR Principia*
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD015T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
JAMO
Client:
Google Fonts
Title:
Grandiflora
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD016T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Nils Dam Nordlund / Copenhagen
Client:
Personal
Title:
Uvas Display
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD017T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Boharat type foundry / Cairo
Client:
Boharat type foundry
Title:
Zaatar Typeface
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD018T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Antipixel type studio / Buenos Aires
Client:
N/A
Title:
Cumbre
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD019T
