TDC Awards
The TDC competition, established in 1953, is the longest running, most prestigious, global typography and type design competition. Now in its 69th 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
SVA Viewbook 2021-22
Agency: Visual Arts Press, Ltd. / New York
Client: School of Visual Arts Category: Books / Single
Fix What You Can
Agency: Casalino Design / New York
Client: University of Minnesota Press Category: Books / Single
11/20
Agency: Vera Lucía Jiménez Araujo / LIMA + KWY Ediciones / LIMA
Client: KWY Editorial Category: Books / Single
Unfolding Eastern Munich
Agency: Matthias Hohmann / Stuttgart
Client: whitebox e.V. (for Lia Sáile) Category: Books / Single
Duro Olowu: Seeing
Agency: Normal / Chicago + Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago
Client: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Category: Books / Single
Real Feelings – Emotion and Technology
Agency: Hauser, Schwarz / Basel
Client: House of Electronic Arts Basel Category: Books / Single
Wissensfabrik
Agency: Büro Sequenz / St.Gallen + Wissensfabrik / Dulliken + Christoph Merian Verlag / Basel + Druckerei Lutz / Speicher
Client: Forum Kultur und Ökonomie, Wissensfabrik Category: Books / Single
The Broken Bridge
Agency: Yuan Liu / Shanghai
Client: Pizhou Cultural Office Category: Books / Single
BIFT GRADUATION WORKS BA, CLASS OF 2020
Agency: Mint Brand Design / Beijing
Client: BIFT Category: Books / Single
A–L/M–Z: The Mrs Jay and W. Gordon Smith Art Collection
Agency: Sigrid Schmeisser / Maastricht (NL) + Siobhan McLaughlin / Glasgow (UK)
Client: Jay Gordonsmith Estate Category: Books / Single
Grief and Grievance
Agency: Polymode / Inglewood
Client: PHAIDON / The New Museum Category: Books / Single
Chinese Protest Recipes
Agency: Meat Studio / Toronto
Client: Personal and with @thegodofcookery Category: Books / Single
Sensemaking 2020
Agency: Google / New York + Wax Studios / New York
Client: Personal Category: Books / Single
WFH Reader: Norms, Dystopias, & Utopias Collide
Agency: Google / Mountain View
Client: Personal Category: Books / Single
Bird Machine Vol. 1
Agency: Turnstyle / Seattle, WA, USA
Client: Oiselle Category: Catalogs / Single
Paradisoterrestre Catalog
Agency: Andrea Guccini and Giulia Bardelli / Bologna and Milan
Client: Paradisoterrestre Category: Catalogs / Single
57 Sheets of Paper
Agency: STONES DESIGN Lab. / Beijing
Client: Antalis (China) Category: Catalogs / Single
A fell B lost
Agency: Tuman Studio / Moscow
Client: International Memorial Category: Catalogs / Single
Saturday Night Live
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: Saturday Night Live Category: Motion/TV / Opening Titles - Campaign
Beneduce Classic Series
Agency: Work by Lule / New York
Client: Beneduce Vineyards Category: Packaging / Campaign
Dark Matter Coffee Core Brands Redesign
Agency: Zimmer-Design / Louisville
Client: Dark Matter Coffee Category: Packaging / Campaign
Unprecedented Rhymes for Unprecedented Times
Agency: Ananya Khaitan / New Delhi
Client: Ananya Khaitan Category: Experimental / Campaign
The Ampersand Series
Agency: Bianca Dumitrascu / Bucharest
Client: Personal Category: Experimental / Campaign
Confronting Unjust Policing: A Primer for Systemic Reimagining
Agency: Isometric Studio / Brooklyn
Client: Personal Category: Experimental / Campaign
Fieldnotes
Agency: CF Brand Design / Napa
Client: La Crosse Distilling Co. Category: Packaging / Single
Fordham Lee Distillery Bourbon Whiskey
Agency: CF Brand Design / Napa
Client: Fordham Lee Distillery Category: Packaging / Single
Saari Packaging
Agency: Renan Vizzotto / Bolzano
Client: Saari Chocolate Category: Packaging / Single
Finery Cocktails
Agency: Onfire Design / Auckland
Client: The Fine People Category: Packaging / Single
Uniform Teeth Packaging
Agency: Uniform Teeth / San Francisco
Client: Uniform Teeth Category: Packaging / Single
The New York Times for Kids November: How It Works
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times for Kids Category: Editorial / Single
The New York Times Magazine Labs: The Day Deacon King Kong Got A Gun
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Labs Category: Editorial / Single
The Monolith
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Editorial / Single
The Decameron Project
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Editorial / Single
The Culture Issue
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Editorial / Single
Well done
Agency: Kirchschlaeger Grafikbüro / Wels
Client: Karin Stöttinger – Geschmacksmomente Category: Editorial / Single
The State of Black Hollywood Cover
Agency: Variety Magazine / Los Angeles
Client: Variety Magazine Category: Editorial / Single
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Visual Arts Press, Ltd. / New York
Client:
School of Visual Arts
Title:
SVA Viewbook 2021-22
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_024C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Halim Lee / Seoul, South Korea
Client:
Personal
Title:
i.Am Type Specimen
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_025C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Casalino Design / New York
Client:
University of Minnesota Press
Title:
Fix What You Can
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_026C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Vera Lucía Jiménez Araujo / LIMA + KWY Ediciones / LIMA
Client:
KWY Editorial
Title:
11/20
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_027C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Matthias Hohmann / Stuttgart
Client:
whitebox e.V. (for Lia Sáile)
Title:
Unfolding Eastern Munich
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_028C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Merle Michaelis / Kiel
Client:
Personal
Title:
Into Letters
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_029C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Normal / Chicago + Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago
Client:
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Title:
Duro Olowu: Seeing
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_030C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Hauser, Schwarz / Basel
Client:
House of Electronic Arts Basel
Title:
Real Feelings – Emotion and Technology
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_031C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Büro Sequenz / St.Gallen + Wissensfabrik / Dulliken + Christoph Merian Verlag / Basel + Druckerei Lutz / Speicher
Client:
Forum Kultur und Ökonomie, Wissensfabrik
Title:
Wissensfabrik
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_032C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Yuan Liu / Shanghai
Client:
Pizhou Cultural Office
Title:
The Broken Bridge
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_033C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Mint Brand Design / Beijing
Client:
BIFT
Title:
BIFT GRADUATION WORKS BA, CLASS OF 2020
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_034C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Sigrid Schmeisser / Maastricht (NL) + Siobhan McLaughlin / Glasgow (UK)
Client:
Jay Gordonsmith Estate
Title:
A–L/M–Z: The Mrs Jay and W. Gordon Smith Art Collection
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_035C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Polymode / Inglewood
Client:
PHAIDON / The New Museum
Title:
Grief and Grievance
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_036C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Morcos Key / Brooklyn
Client:
Penguin Random House
Title:
Black Futures
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_037C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Meat Studio / Toronto
Client:
Personal and with @thegodofcookery
Title:
Chinese Protest Recipes
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_038C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Google / New York + Wax Studios / New York
Client:
Personal
Title:
Sensemaking 2020
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_039C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Google / Mountain View
Client:
Personal
Title:
WFH Reader: Norms, Dystopias, & Utopias Collide
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_040C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Tereza Bettinardi / São Paulo
Client:
Carambaia
Title:
As mulheres contam
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_041C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
House Industries / Yorklyn
Client:
N/A
Title:
House Industries Lettering Manual
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_042C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
STONES DESIGN Lab. / Beijing
Client:
N/A
Title:
2021 Calendar
Category:
Calendars / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_044C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Quinsay Design / Hang Zhou
Client:
N/A
Title:
Grid Calendar 2021
Category:
Calendars / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_045C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Turnstyle / Seattle, WA, USA
Client:
Oiselle
Title:
Bird Machine Vol. 1
Category:
Catalogs / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_046C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Andrea Guccini and Giulia Bardelli / Bologna and Milan
Client:
Paradisoterrestre
Title:
Paradisoterrestre Catalog
Category:
Catalogs / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_047C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
STONES DESIGN Lab. / Beijing
Client:
Antalis (China)
Title:
57 Sheets of Paper
Category:
Catalogs / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_048C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Tuman Studio / Moscow
Client:
International Memorial
Title:
A fell B lost
Category:
Catalogs / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_049C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
Saturday Night Live
Title:
Saturday Night Live
Category:
Motion/TV / Opening Titles - Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_161C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Paprika / Montreal
Client:
Naturiste
Title:
Naturiste - Packaging
Category:
Packaging / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_171C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
MARU / Nakano-ku, Tokyo
Client:
Kadoya
Title:
Kankitsu-yama
Category:
Packaging / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_172C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Work by Lule / New York
Client:
Beneduce Vineyards
Title:
Beneduce Classic Series
Category:
Packaging / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_173C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Zimmer-Design / Louisville
Client:
Dark Matter Coffee
Title:
Dark Matter Coffee Core Brands Redesign
Category:
Packaging / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_174C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ananya Khaitan / New Delhi
Client:
Ananya Khaitan
Title:
Unprecedented Rhymes for Unprecedented Times
Category:
Experimental / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_087C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
UFHO / Singapore
Client:
BÜRO UFHO
Title:
Hopersand
Category:
Experimental / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_088C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
UFHO / Singapore
Client:
N/A
Title:
Resilience Type
Category:
Experimental / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_089C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
kissmiklos / Budapest
Client:
Personal
Title:
Type Beast
Category:
Experimental / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_090C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Bianca Dumitrascu / Bucharest
Client:
Personal
Title:
The Ampersand Series
Category:
Experimental / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_091C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Isometric Studio / Brooklyn
Client:
Personal
Title:
Confronting Unjust Policing: A Primer for Systemic Reimagining
Category:
Experimental / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_092C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
CF Brand Design / Napa
Client:
La Crosse Distilling Co.
Title:
Fieldnotes
Category:
Packaging / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_165C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
CF Brand Design / Napa
Client:
Fordham Lee Distillery
Title:
Fordham Lee Distillery Bourbon Whiskey
Category:
Packaging / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_166C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Renan Vizzotto / Bolzano
Client:
Saari Chocolate
Title:
Saari Packaging
Category:
Packaging / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_167C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Onfire Design / Auckland
Client:
The Fine People
Title:
Finery Cocktails
Category:
Packaging / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_168C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Uniform Teeth / San Francisco
Client:
Uniform Teeth
Title:
Uniform Teeth Packaging
Category:
Packaging / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_169C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Rebu / São Paulo
Client:
Bacio di Latte
Title:
Bacio di Latte Casa
Category:
Packaging / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_170C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
N/A
Title:
The All-Seeing Eye
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_057C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times for Kids
Title:
The New York Times for Kids November: How It Works
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_058C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine Labs
Title:
The New York Times Magazine Labs: The Day Deacon King Kong Got A Gun
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_059C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Monolith
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_060C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Decameron Project
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_061C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Culture Issue
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_062C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Kirchschlaeger Grafikbüro / Wels
Client:
Karin Stöttinger – Geschmacksmomente
Title:
Well done
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_063C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Variety Magazine / Los Angeles
Client:
Variety Magazine
Title:
The State of Black Hollywood Cover
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_064C