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.
Filter
Award
Agency
Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
San Francisco Symphony Brand Identity
Agency: Collins / San Francisco + Dinamo / Basel
Client: San Francisco Symphony Category: Best of Show
Stop Cyberbullying!
Agency: Masahiro Naruse / New York
Category: Motion/TV / Unscreened/Experimental - Campaign
Poetry of the Eye
Agency: Fionn Breen / New York
Client: Personal Category: Motion/TV / Unscreened/Experimental - Campaign
Typograph Watch Face
Agency: Apple / Cupertino
Client: Apple Category: Digital Media / Apps - Single
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
The 101 Best Movies of the 2010s
Agency: Ananya Khaitan / New Delhi
Client: Battleship Pretension Category: Book Jackets / Single
Almond
Agency: HarperCollins Publishers / New York
Client: HarperVia / HarperCollins Publishers Category: Book Jackets / Single
The American Fiancee
Agency: HarperCollins Publishers / New York
Client: HarperVia / HarperCollins Publishers Category: Book Jackets / Single
The Autobiography of Eikoh Hosoe Trilogy
Agency: Wang Zhi-Hong Studio / Taipei
Client: Faces Publications Category: Book Jackets / Single
Fukt magazine #19 Storylines
Agency: Ariane Spanier / Berlin
Client: Fukt magazine for drawing Category: Book Jackets / Single
Ingredients
Agency: Penguin Random House / New York
Client: Penguin Random House Category: Book Jackets / Single
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter
Agency: Champions Design / New York
Client: Tilbury House Publishers Category: Book Jackets / Single
Ad Algea
Agency: Marta Cerdà Alimbau / Barcelona
Client: Josep Maria Martí Duran Category: Book Jackets / Single
Saturday Night Live
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: Saturday Night Live Category: Motion/TV / Opening Titles - Campaign
Ludwig Leo: Umlauftank 2
Agency: Siyu Mao / Berlin
Client: Wüstenrot Foundation Category: Books / Single
Kent Monkman
Agency: Underline Studio / Toronto
Client: Art Canada Institute Category: Books / Single
Conjunglyph: A Symbol Experimentation
Agency: Thinking Room / Jakarta
Client: Personal Category: Books / Single
Thinking out of box
Agency: Ling Tung University / Taichung
Client: Personal Category: Books / Single
El viaje de las delicias
Agency: Compañía / Barcelona + Editorial Planeta / Barcelona
Client: Accenture Category: Books / Single
12-8 2017 / Pensacola FL
Agency: Area of Practice / New York + William Mebane / New York
Client: William Mebane Category: Books / Single
Philipp Fürhofer (Dis)Illusions
Agency: Paprika / Montreal
Client: Thierry-Maxime Loriot Category: Books / Single
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: Mrs Jay & W. Gordon Smith Art Collection
Agency: Sigrid Schmeisser + Siobhan McLaughlin + Helen Bleck
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
Le Rosart Text & Display
Agency: Revolver Type Foundry / Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Client: Personal Category: Type System
Good is like Water
Agency: Zhejiang Gongshang University / Hangzhou
Client: Gwangju Design Biennale Category: Posters / Single
Award:
2021 Best of Show TDC Best of Show
Agency:
Collins / San Francisco + Dinamo / Basel
Client:
San Francisco Symphony
Title:
San Francisco Symphony Brand Identity
Category:
Best of Show
Annual ID:
TDC67_001C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Masahiro Naruse / New York
Client:
N/A
Title:
Stop Cyberbullying!
Category:
Motion/TV / Unscreened/Experimental - Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_157C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Fionn Breen / New York
Client:
Personal
Title:
Poetry of the Eye
Category:
Motion/TV / Unscreened/Experimental - Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_158C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Apple / Cupertino
Client:
Apple
Title:
Typograph Watch Face
Category:
Digital Media / Apps - Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_056C
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:
Battleship Pretension
Title:
The 101 Best Movies of the 2010s
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_005C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
HarperCollins Publishers / New York
Client:
HarperVia / HarperCollins Publishers
Title:
Almond
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_006C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
HarperCollins Publishers / New York
Client:
HarperVia / HarperCollins Publishers
Title:
The American Fiancee
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_007C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Wang Zhi-Hong Studio / Taipei
Client:
Faces Publications
Title:
The Autobiography of Eikoh Hosoe Trilogy
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_008C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ariane Spanier / Berlin
Client:
Fukt magazine for drawing
Title:
Fukt magazine #19 Storylines
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_009C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Moker Ontwerp / Amsterdam
Client:
De Bezige Bij
Title:
On the Road
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_010C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Penguin Random House / New York
Client:
Penguin Random House
Title:
Ingredients
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_011C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Champions Design / New York
Client:
Tilbury House Publishers
Title:
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_012C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Marta Cerdà Alimbau / Barcelona
Client:
Josep Maria Martí Duran
Title:
Ad Algea
Category:
Book Jackets / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_013C
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:
collect / Stuttgart
Client:
Frank Kayser
Title:
RGruppe
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_016C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Siyu Mao / Berlin
Client:
Wüstenrot Foundation
Title:
Ludwig Leo: Umlauftank 2
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_017C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Underline Studio / Toronto
Client:
Art Canada Institute
Title:
Kent Monkman
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_018C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Thinking Room / Jakarta
Client:
Personal
Title:
Conjunglyph: A Symbol Experimentation
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_019C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ling Tung University / Taichung
Client:
Personal
Title:
Thinking out of box
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_020C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Compañía / Barcelona + Editorial Planeta / Barcelona
Client:
Accenture
Title:
El viaje de las delicias
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_021C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Area of Practice / New York + William Mebane / New York
Client:
William Mebane
Title:
12-8 2017 / Pensacola FL
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_022C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Paprika / Montreal
Client:
Thierry-Maxime Loriot
Title:
Philipp Fürhofer (Dis)Illusions
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_023C
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 + Siobhan McLaughlin + Helen Bleck
Client:
Jay Gordonsmith Estate
Title:
A–L/M–Z: Mrs Jay & 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 Typeface Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Revolver Type Foundry / Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Client:
Personal
Title:
Le Rosart Text & Display
Category:
Type System
Annual ID:
TD24_016T
Award:
2021 Typeface Design TDC Winner
Agency:
205TF / Lyon
Client:
N/A
Title:
Garaje
Category:
Type System
Annual ID:
TD24_017T
Award:
2021 Typeface Design TDC Winner
Agency:
hrftype / Kuala Lumpur
Client:
Grab
Title:
Grab Community
Category:
Type System
Annual ID:
TD24_018T
Award:
2021 Typeface Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Frere-Jones Type / Brooklyn
Client:
N/A
Title:
Retail Typeface Design
Category:
Type System
Annual ID:
TD24_019T
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Zhejiang Gongshang University / Hangzhou
Client:
Gwangju Design Biennale
Title:
Good is like Water
Category:
Posters / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_175C
