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

International Center of Photography
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: International Center of Photography Category: Best of Show

RE:RISO Naughty Roll Featured Works Exhibition
Agency: indego design / macau
Client: Naughty Roll Category: Motion/TV / Visual Design - Campaign

Western Calligraphy Annual Exhibition: POP & ART
Agency: indego design / macau
Client: The Lettering Artists Association of Macau Category: Motion/TV / Visual Design - Single

Letterform Variations
Agency: Nigel Cottier / London + Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Category: Books / Single

HERE – A world poem by Tishani Doshi
Agency: Atelier Carvalho Bernau / Porto
Client: Typotheque Category: Books / Single

Letterform Variations
Agency: Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client: Personal Category: Books / Single

Support Independent Type
Agency: Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client: Personal Category: Books / Single

The Best German Book Design 2021
Agency: Daniel Wiesmann Büro für Gestaltung / Berlin + Stiftung Buchkunst / Frankfurt am Main
Client: Stiftung Buchkunst Category: Books / Single

Something Like A Phenomenon
Agency: Hagen Verleger • Typography, Book Design, Research / Berlin + Damien & The Love Guru / Brussels
Client: Damien & The Love Guru Category: Books / Single

Summer Reading
Agency: Ben Denzer + Center for Book Arts / New York
Client: Center for Book Arts Category: Books / Single

Hanbooks 17
Agency: Nanjing Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client: Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing Category: Books / Single

Shape Grammars
Agency: Jannis Maroscheck / Berlin + Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Category: Books / Single

History of Chinese Character Design
Agency: Research Center of Ancient Chinese Characters Art, Tsinghua Univeristy / Beijing + Six Sense Studio / Beijing + Chen Nan / Beijing
Client: Personal Category: Books / Single

Data Centers
Agency: Hubertus / Zürich
Client: Hannes Rickli, Monika Dommann, Max Stadler Category: Books / Single

Season Booklet 2021/22
Agency: Theater Erlangen / Erlangen + Neue Gestaltung GmbH / Berlin
Client: Theater Erlangen Category: Books / Single

Euclid – Typeface Mystery Nr.1
Agency: Hubertus / Zürich + Swiss Typefaces / Vevey
Client: Swiss Typefaces Category: Books / Single

The Return of FOMO
Agency: Zuzanna Rogatty / New York + New York Magazine / New York
Client: New York Magazine Category: Editorial / Campaign

Canal Magazine
Agency: Sunday Afternoon / New York
Client: Canal Magazine Category: Editorial / Campaign

Chinese traditional culture Poster
Agency: Communication University of Zhejiang / hangzhou
Client: hangzhou muke cultural creativity Category: Advertisements / Single

Built to Host
Agency: THERE IS STUDIO / London + 360i / New York + New Orleans Tourism / New Orleans
Client: New Orleans Tourism Category: Advertisements / Single

Canal Magazine
Agency: Sunday Afternoon / New York
Client: Canal Magazine Category: Self-Promotion / Single

Postcards, letterpress
Agency: Olga Pankova / Moscow + Demonpress / Moscow
Client: Personal Category: Self-Promotion / Single

The Five Great Mountains of China Revamp
Agency: Centre Design / ZHONGSHAN
Client: Caobu Public Library Category: Posters / Campaign

Theater Posters
Agency: Theater Erlangen / Erlangen + Neue Gestaltung GmbH / Berlin
Client: Theater Erlangen Category: Posters / Campaign

YouFab Global Creative Awards 2021
Agency: SHA inc. / Tokyo
Client: FabCafe Category: Posters / Campaign

100 years of Russian Constructivism
Agency: RT Creative Lab / Moscow + Bankov Posters / Prague
Client: RT Creative Lab / Vkhutemas.academy / Peter Bankov Category: Posters / Campaign

VKHUTEMAS.ACADEMY: Poster-series
Agency: RT Creative Lab / Moscow + Bankov Posters / Prague
Client: RT Creative Lab / Vkhutemas.academy / Peter Bankov Category: Posters / Campaign

Skewes' Number
Agency: Yan-Ting Chen / Taipei City
Client: Yan-Ting Chen Category: Posters / Campaign

Concert Posters
Agency: collect / Stuttgart
Client: University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switze Category: Posters / Campaign

Te Wheke
Agency: Osborne Shiwan / Auckland
Client: Atamira Dance Company Category: Posters / Campaign

Poster for The Scientist’s Coffee Bean Products
Agency: HDU²³ Lab / Wuxi
Client: The Scientist Coffee Category: Posters / Campaign

The Lyrics, Paul McCartney
Agency: Liveright / New York, NY + MPL / London + W. W. Norton & Company / New York, NY
Client: Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company Category: Books / Campaign

Crisis of Now
Agency: Burrow / Berlin
Client: IDOLONSTUDIO (Chun-chi Wang) Category: Books / Campaign

BIFT GRADUATION WORKS BA, CLASS OF 2021
Agency: MINT BRAND DESIGN / BEIJING
Client: BIFT Category: Books / Campaign

Machine-Learning-Generated-Audio-Reactive-Type
Agency: Dev Valladares / Baltimore
Category: Motion/TV / Unscreened/Experimental - Single

House of Type
Agency: Schmid/Widmaier / Munich
Client: Schmid/Widmaier Category: Self-Promotion / Campaign

Strawberry Western Logotype
Agency: R&M / Brooklyn
Client: Strawberry Western Category: Logotypes / Single

Spark the new "Choy"?
Agency: M-N Associates / Ho Chi Minh City
Client: PetChoy Category: Logotypes / Single

Piedmont Art Walk Logotype
Agency: Mucho / San Francisco
Client: Piedmont Art Walk Logotype Category: Logotypes / Single

Award:
2022 Best of Show TDC Best of Show
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
International Center of Photography
Title:
International Center of Photography
Category:
Best of Show
Annual ID:
TDC68_001C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
indego design / macau
Client:
Naughty Roll
Title:
RE:RISO Naughty Roll Featured Works Exhibition
Category:
Motion/TV / Visual Design - Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_038C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
indego design / macau
Client:
The Lettering Artists Association of Macau
Title:
Western Calligraphy Annual Exhibition: POP & ART
Category:
Motion/TV / Visual Design - Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_041C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Studio Bang-Gu
Client:
Personal
Title:
Play Play Laaaaah
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_006C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Nigel Cottier / London + Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client:
N/A
Title:
Letterform Variations
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_030C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Atelier Carvalho Bernau / Porto
Client:
Typotheque
Title:
HERE – A world poem by Tishani Doshi
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_033C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
hesign / Berlin
Client:
Jumping He
Title:
daydream
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_044C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
STONES DESIGN Lab. / Beijing
Client:
N/A
Title:
FORM OF LOVE
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_046C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client:
Personal
Title:
Letterform Variations
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_052C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client:
Personal
Title:
Support Independent Type
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_053C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
collect / Stuttgart
Client:
Ansbach Theater
Title:
It’s us again
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_054C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Daniel Wiesmann Büro für Gestaltung / Berlin + Stiftung Buchkunst / Frankfurt am Main
Client:
Stiftung Buchkunst
Title:
The Best German Book Design 2021
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_056C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Hagen Verleger • Typography, Book Design, Research / Berlin + Damien & The Love Guru / Brussels
Client:
Damien & The Love Guru
Title:
Something Like A Phenomenon
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_069C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ben Denzer + Center for Book Arts / New York
Client:
Center for Book Arts
Title:
Summer Reading
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_072C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Nanjing Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client:
Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing
Title:
Hanbooks 17
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_076C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Jannis Maroscheck / Berlin + Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client:
N/A
Title:
Shape Grammars
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_081C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Research Center of Ancient Chinese Characters Art, Tsinghua Univeristy / Beijing + Six Sense Studio / Beijing + Chen Nan / Beijing
Client:
Personal
Title:
History of Chinese Character Design
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_147C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
BANK™ / Berlin
Client:
Galerie Michael Haas
Title:
Frank Gerritz: Kompass
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_158C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Hubertus / Zürich
Client:
Hannes Rickli, Monika Dommann, Max Stadler
Title:
Data Centers
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_196C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Theater Erlangen / Erlangen + Neue Gestaltung GmbH / Berlin
Client:
Theater Erlangen
Title:
Season Booklet 2021/22
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_198C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Hubertus / Zürich + Swiss Typefaces / Vevey
Client:
Swiss Typefaces
Title:
Euclid – Typeface Mystery Nr.1
Category:
Books / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_200C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Zuzanna Rogatty / New York + New York Magazine / New York
Client:
New York Magazine
Title:
The Return of FOMO
Category:
Editorial / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_113C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Sunday Afternoon / New York
Client:
Canal Magazine
Title:
Canal Magazine
Category:
Editorial / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_138C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Communication University of Zhejiang / hangzhou
Client:
hangzhou muke cultural creativity
Title:
Chinese traditional culture Poster
Category:
Advertisements / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_045C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
THERE IS STUDIO / London + 360i / New York + New Orleans Tourism / New Orleans
Client:
New Orleans Tourism
Title:
Built to Host
Category:
Advertisements / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_120C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Sunday Afternoon / New York
Client:
Canal Magazine
Title:
Canal Magazine
Category:
Self-Promotion / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_118C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Olga Pankova / Moscow + Demonpress / Moscow
Client:
Personal
Title:
Postcards, letterpress
Category:
Self-Promotion / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_144C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Centre Design / ZHONGSHAN
Client:
Caobu Public Library
Title:
The Five Great Mountains of China Revamp
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_020C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Theater Erlangen / Erlangen + Neue Gestaltung GmbH / Berlin
Client:
Theater Erlangen
Title:
Theater Posters
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_028C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Principal
Client:
Prospero
Title:
Prospero
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_042C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
SHA inc. / Tokyo
Client:
FabCafe
Title:
YouFab Global Creative Awards 2021
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_059C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
RT Creative Lab / Moscow + Bankov Posters / Prague
Client:
RT Creative Lab / Vkhutemas.academy / Peter Bankov
Title:
100 years of Russian Constructivism
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_070C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Fons Hickmann M23 / Berlin
Client:
Neubad
Title:
Neubad — Jazz
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_086C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
RT Creative Lab / Moscow + Bankov Posters / Prague
Client:
RT Creative Lab / Vkhutemas.academy / Peter Bankov
Title:
VKHUTEMAS.ACADEMY: Poster-series
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_100C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Yan-Ting Chen / Taipei City
Client:
Yan-Ting Chen
Title:
Skewes' Number
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_102C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
collect / Stuttgart
Client:
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switze
Title:
Concert Posters
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_127C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Osborne Shiwan / Auckland
Client:
Atamira Dance Company
Title:
Te Wheke
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_163C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
HDU²³ Lab / Wuxi
Client:
The Scientist Coffee
Title:
Poster for The Scientist’s Coffee Bean Products
Category:
Posters / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_187C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Liveright / New York, NY + MPL / London + W. W. Norton & Company / New York, NY
Client:
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company
Title:
The Lyrics, Paul McCartney
Category:
Books / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_098C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Novel / New Delhi
Client:
Offset Projects
Title:
Guftgu
Category:
Books / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_119C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Burrow / Berlin
Client:
IDOLONSTUDIO (Chun-chi Wang)
Title:
Crisis of Now
Category:
Books / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_174C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
MINT BRAND DESIGN / BEIJING
Client:
BIFT
Title:
BIFT GRADUATION WORKS BA, CLASS OF 2021
Category:
Books / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_189C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Dev Valladares / Baltimore
Client:
N/A
Title:
Machine-Learning-Generated-Audio-Reactive-Type
Category:
Motion/TV / Unscreened/Experimental - Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_137C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Zetafonts / Firenze + Reber R41 / Treviso
Client:
N/A
Title:
Coppa Stadio
Category:
Self-Promotion / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_131C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Schmid/Widmaier / Munich
Client:
Schmid/Widmaier
Title:
House of Type
Category:
Self-Promotion / Campaign
Annual ID:
TDC68_173C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
R&M / Brooklyn
Client:
Strawberry Western
Title:
Strawberry Western Logotype
Category:
Logotypes / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_005C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
M-N Associates / Ho Chi Minh City
Client:
PetChoy
Title:
Spark the new "Choy"?
Category:
Logotypes / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_019C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Mucho / San Francisco
Client:
Kinema
Title:
Kinema Logotype
Category:
Logotypes / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_029C

Award:
2022 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Principal
Client:
AAPQ
Title:
AAPQ
Category:
Logotypes / Single
Annual ID:
TDC68_035C
