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
San Francisco Symphony Brand Identity
Agency: Collins / San Francisco + Dinamo / Basel
Client: San Francisco Symphony Category: Best of Show
paracelsus pool and wellness centre signage system, salzburg
Agency: büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / stuttgart
Client: stadtgemeinde salzburg – kktb, stadt salzburg immobilien gmbh Category: Exhibits/Signage / Single
Kunsthaus Zürich Signage
Agency: L2M3.com / Stuttgart + Pentagram / London
Client: Kunsthaus Zürich Category: Exhibits/Signage / Single
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
IRRGARTEN
Agency: Alisch Berlec Hönow / Stuttgart
Client: Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart e.V. Category: Digital Media / Websites - Single
sona studio website
Agency: 2 design / Cooks Hill
Client: sona studio Category: Digital Media / Websites - Single
Medium Website
Agency: COLLINS / New York
Client: Medium Category: Digital Media / Websites - Single
Mailchimp 2020 Annual Report
Agency: Mailchimp
Client: Mailchimp Category: Digital Media / Websites - Single
Diagnosing Epilepsy Type
Agency: The Bloc / New York
Client: Greenwich Category: Miscellaneous / Single
Qualtrics XM Breakthrough Artist Award
Agency: Kevin Cantrell Studio / Mantua
Client: Qualtrics Category: Miscellaneous / Single
GAFA Degree Show 2020
Agency: TEN BUTTONS / Guangzhou
Client: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Category: Posters / Campaign
Daniel Ehrenworth
Agency: Underline Studio / Toronto
Client: Daniel Ehrenworth Category: Posters / Campaign
Premiere Posters, theater season 2020/21
Agency: Neue Gestaltung GmbH / Berlin
Client: Theater Erlangen Category: Posters / Campaign
Shakespeare series 'Love and emotion'
Agency: Atelier Jisuke / Tokyo
Client: Create Theatre Poster Category: Posters / Campaign
ESTABELECIMENTO DE COMIDAS VAH THAI
Agency: indego design / Macau
Client: ESTABELECIMENTO DE COMIDAS VAH THAI Category: Posters / Campaign
Christian Dior, the Couture Revolution
Agency: Paprika / Montreal
Client: McCord Museum Category: Posters / Campaign
Bağımsız Çarşamba Movies Event
Agency: Alp Eren Tekin Studio / Istanbul
Client: Kadir Has University Cinema Club Category: Posters / Campaign
You Are Here
Agency: Supersystème / Montréal
Client: LA SERRE - arts vivants Category: Posters / Campaign
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:
büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / stuttgart
Client:
stadtgemeinde salzburg – kktb, stadt salzburg immobilien gmbh
Title:
paracelsus pool and wellness centre signage system, salzburg
Category:
Exhibits/Signage / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_076C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
L2M3.com / Stuttgart + Pentagram / London
Client:
Kunsthaus Zürich
Title:
Kunsthaus Zürich Signage
Category:
Exhibits/Signage / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_077C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ben Johnston / Toronto
Client:
Start India
Title:
Nest
Category:
Exhibits/Signage / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_078C
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 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
Tablet
Title:
Tablet
Category:
Digital Media / Websites - Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_050C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Alisch Berlec Hönow / Stuttgart
Client:
Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart e.V.
Title:
IRRGARTEN
Category:
Digital Media / Websites - Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_051C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
2 design / Cooks Hill
Client:
sona studio
Title:
sona studio website
Category:
Digital Media / Websites - Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_052C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
COLLINS / New York
Client:
Medium
Title:
Medium Website
Category:
Digital Media / Websites - Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_053C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Mailchimp
Client:
Mailchimp
Title:
Mailchimp 2020 Annual Report
Category:
Digital Media / Websites - Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_054C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Tuman studio / Moscow
Client:
N/A
Title:
OM130
Category:
Digital Media / Websites - Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_055C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The Bloc / New York
Client:
Greenwich
Title:
Diagnosing Epilepsy Type
Category:
Miscellaneous / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_151C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Kevin Cantrell Studio / Mantua
Client:
Qualtrics
Title:
Qualtrics XM Breakthrough Artist Award
Category:
Miscellaneous / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_152C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
TEN BUTTONS / Guangzhou
Client:
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Title:
GAFA Degree Show 2020
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_192C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Underline Studio / Toronto
Client:
Daniel Ehrenworth
Title:
Daniel Ehrenworth
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_193C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Neue Gestaltung GmbH / Berlin
Client:
Theater Erlangen
Title:
Premiere Posters, theater season 2020/21
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_194C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Atelier Jisuke / Tokyo
Client:
Create Theatre Poster
Title:
Shakespeare series 'Love and emotion'
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_195C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Yan-Ting Chen / Taipei City
Client:
Nature
Title:
Nature of Words
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_196C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
indego design / Macau
Client:
ESTABELECIMENTO DE COMIDAS VAH THAI
Title:
ESTABELECIMENTO DE COMIDAS VAH THAI
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_197C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
indego design / Macau
Client:
50% TOY
Title:
DINO ART TOY BOOM
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_198C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Paprika / Montreal
Client:
McCord Museum
Title:
Christian Dior, the Couture Revolution
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_199C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
HDU23 Lab / Wuxi
Client:
Personal
Title:
Pastoral
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_200C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Alp Eren Tekin Studio / Istanbul
Client:
Kadir Has University Cinema Club
Title:
Bağımsız Çarşamba Movies Event
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_201C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Supersystème / Montréal
Client:
LA SERRE - arts vivants
Title:
You Are Here
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC67_202C
