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
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
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
characters#02 – NewsSerif specimen
Agency: Character Type / Hamburg, Germany
Category: Self-Promotion / Single
Ox in a Box
Agency: Fictionist Studio / KUALA LUMPUR
Client: Personal Category: Self-Promotion / 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
Power of Young Hollywood Package
Agency: Variety Magazine / Los Angeles
Client: Variety Magazine Category: Editorial / Single
Citizen Fincher
Agency: Variety Magazine / Los Angeles
Client: Variety Magazine Category: Editorial / Single
My 2020 in Data (So Far)
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / 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:
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:
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:
ThinkOver / New York
Client:
N/A
Title:
Vote for Change
Category:
Self-Promotion / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_203C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Character Type / Hamburg, Germany
Client:
N/A
Title:
characters#02 – NewsSerif specimen
Category:
Self-Promotion / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_204C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Fictionist Studio / KUALA LUMPUR
Client:
Personal
Title:
Ox in a Box
Category:
Self-Promotion / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_205C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Mailchimp
Client:
Mailchimp
Title:
Mailchimp 2020 Annual Report
Category:
Self-Promotion / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_206C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ben Johnston / Toronto
Client:
N/A
Title:
Peace & Love
Category:
Self-Promotion / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_207C
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
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Variety Magazine / Los Angeles
Client:
Variety Magazine
Title:
Power of Young Hollywood Package
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_065C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Variety Magazine / Los Angeles
Client:
Variety Magazine
Title:
Citizen Fincher
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_066C
Award:
2021 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
My 2020 in Data (So Far)
Category:
Editorial / Single
Annual ID:
TDC67_067C
