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Agency
Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
Stanford d.school Yearbook ’23
Agency: Daniel Frumhoff Design + Stanford University d.school
Client: Stanford University d.school Category: Best of Lettering
Rapida Hebrew + Arabic
Agency: Typotheque / The Hague + Hagilda / Tel Aviv
Client: Typotheque Den Haag / Hagilda Tel Aviv Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Seasummer
Agency: Studio Céline Hurka / The Hague
Client: Adrian Pourviseh / Avant Verlag Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
The Roald Dahl Story Company
Agency: Emily Oberman / Pentagram / New York
Client: The Roald Dahl Story Company Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Amazon Brand Architecture
Agency: Amazon XCM + Koto
Client: Amazon Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Deem Symposium Branding, Designing for Dignity
Agency: ROOM FOR MAGIC / Los Angeles
Client: Deem Journal Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Helions
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: Helions Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings
Agency: Damien Saatdjian / Brooklyn + Monacelli Press / New York
Client: Monacelli Press Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Brand New Logo
Agency: Rob Clarke / London + Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez-Palacio / Under Consideration / Bloomington
Client: Brand New Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Bizzarri
Agency: Blast Foundry / The Hague
Client: Blast Foundry Category: Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
CHOSMOS
Agency: Typozon + Typozon.xyz
Client: Typozon.xyz Category: Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Il caso del castello chiuso
Agency: Davide Pagliardini / San Marino + De Agostini S.p.A.
Client: DeAgostini Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
2024 Covers
Agency: The New York Times for Kids + The New York Times
Client: The New York Times for Kids Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
Greeting card set
Agency: Doufu design / shanghai
Client: N/A Category: Print / Printed Ephemera / Cards / Stickers - Series
Stanford d.school Yearbook ’23
Agency: Daniel Frumhoff Design + Stanford University d.school
Client: Stanford University d.school Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Haraka Baraka
Agency: Pentagram / London + Skatepal / London
Client: SkatePal Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Agency: CHÊNE / Vanves
Client: HACHETTE / Éditions du Chêne Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
La Divina Commedia
Agency: Macau University of Science and Technology / Macau + Shuguang Gu / Nanjing
Client: Macau University of Science and Technology Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Book Series
Agency: Electric Red Studio / London + Pflaŭmbaŭm publishing house / Vilnius
Client: Pflaŭmbaŭm publishing house Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
The Elections Issue
Agency: The New York Times for Kids + The New York Times
Client: The New York Times for Kids Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
The Games Issue
Agency: The New York Times for Kids + The New York Times
Client: The New York Times for Kids Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
The Weirdest, Wildest Performances of the Year
Agency: The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
The Olympics Issue
Agency: The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
The Lives They Lived
Agency: The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Forget the Academy. Our Nominees Are…
Agency: The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
The Retirement Issue
Agency: The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
The Culture Issue
Agency: The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Efthimis Fillipou – Screenwriter
Agency: MNP / Athens
Client: Efthimis Fillipou Category: Digital / Technology / Website / Microsite - Single
Barco de Papel
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: Barco de Papel Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Helions
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: Helions Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Haraka Baraka
Agency: Pentagram / London + Skatepal / London
Client: SkatePal Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single
ShiQi's Calligraphy
Agency: Bai Fengkun / Beijing
Client: Beijing Times Chinese Press Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
The interpretation power of memories
Agency: Yunqi Peng
Client: N/A Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Perspecta 56: Not Found
Agency: Mike Tully & Cat Wentworth / New York
Client: Yale School of Architecture and MIT Press Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Crop X: Yield
Agency: Studio BLDG / Los Angeles
Client: Huckabee College of Architecture @ Texas Tech Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
REBEL PRINTS—The Poster Rex Manifesto
Agency: Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client: Markus Lange, Lars Harmsen / Slanted Publishers Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
After October 7
Agency: Marc Jonathan Costello / New York + Jewish Currents / New York
Client: Jewish Currents Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
System Process Form
Agency: MuirMcNeil / London
Client: MuirMcNeil Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
26 Pilzfont
Agency: Patrick Bittner / Saarbrücken
Client: Patrick Bittner Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
TieXian Kaishu Family
Agency: Ricloud Type / Dalian
Client: Hanyi Fonts Category: Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Kanazawa ADC Annual
Agency: Dentsu West Japan / Kanazawa
Client: Kanazawa Art Directors Club Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Repetition Poems
Agency: 2xlab / New Haven
Client: Non-Client Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
If Shehrazad Drew; Critical Writings on Arab Comic
Agency: Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at the American University of Beirut + AUB Press
Client: Sawaf Center For Arab Comics Studies at the Americ Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere
Agency: Extended Whānau / Auckland
Client: Massey University Press Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Illegibility project
Agency: Joanna Tyborowska / Cracow
Client: N/A Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Global Spread of Sun Tzu's Art of War
Agency: Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd / Nanjing
Client: 江苏凤凰教育出版社 Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Award:
2025 Lettering TDC Best of Discipline
Agency:
Daniel Frumhoff Design + Stanford University d.school
Client:
Stanford University d.school
Title:
Stanford d.school Yearbook ’23
Category:
Best of Lettering
Annual ID:
TDC71_LT001
Award:
2025 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Typotheque / The Hague + Hagilda / Tel Aviv
Client:
Typotheque Den Haag / Hagilda Tel Aviv
Title:
Rapida Hebrew + Arabic
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC71_TD013
Award:
2025 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Studio Céline Hurka / The Hague
Client:
Adrian Pourviseh / Avant Verlag
Title:
Seasummer
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC71_TD016
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Emily Oberman / Pentagram / New York
Client:
The Roald Dahl Story Company
Title:
The Roald Dahl Story Company
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD039
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Amazon XCM + Koto
Client:
Amazon
Title:
Amazon Brand Architecture
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD048
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
ROOM FOR MAGIC / Los Angeles
Client:
Deem Journal
Title:
Deem Symposium Branding, Designing for Dignity
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD051
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
Helions
Title:
Helions
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD053
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Damien Saatdjian / Brooklyn + Monacelli Press / New York
Client:
Monacelli Press
Title:
Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD068
Award:
2025 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Rob Clarke / London + Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez-Palacio / Under Consideration / Bloomington
Client:
Brand New
Title:
Brand New Logo
Category:
Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_LT006
Award:
2025 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Blast Foundry / The Hague
Client:
Blast Foundry
Title:
Bizzarri
Category:
Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Annual ID:
TDC71_TD025
Award:
2025 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Typozon + Typozon.xyz
Client:
Typozon.xyz
Title:
CHOSMOS
Category:
Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Annual ID:
TDC71_TD026
Award:
2025 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Davide Pagliardini / San Marino + De Agostini S.p.A.
Client:
DeAgostini
Title:
Il caso del castello chiuso
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_LT020
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times for Kids + The New York Times
Client:
The New York Times for Kids
Title:
2024 Covers
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD066
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Doufu design / shanghai
Client:
N/A
Title:
Greeting card set
Category:
Print / Printed Ephemera / Cards / Stickers - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD061
Award:
2025 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Daniel Frumhoff Design + Stanford University d.school
Client:
Stanford University d.school
Title:
Stanford d.school Yearbook ’23
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_LT001
Award:
2025 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / London + Skatepal / London
Client:
SkatePal
Title:
Haraka Baraka
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_LT021
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
CHÊNE / Vanves
Client:
HACHETTE / Éditions du Chêne
Title:
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD094
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Macau University of Science and Technology / Macau + Shuguang Gu / Nanjing
Client:
Macau University of Science and Technology
Title:
La Divina Commedia
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD095
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Electric Red Studio / London + Pflaŭmbaŭm publishing house / Vilnius
Client:
Pflaŭmbaŭm publishing house
Title:
Book Series
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD096
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times for Kids + The New York Times
Client:
The New York Times for Kids
Title:
The Elections Issue
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD070
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times for Kids + The New York Times
Client:
The New York Times for Kids
Title:
The Games Issue
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD071
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Weirdest, Wildest Performances of the Year
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD072
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Olympics Issue
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD073
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Lives They Lived
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD074
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Forget the Academy. Our Nominees Are…
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD075
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Retirement Issue
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD076
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
The New York Times + The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Culture Issue
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD077
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
MNP / Athens
Client:
Efthimis Fillipou
Title:
Efthimis Fillipou – Screenwriter
Category:
Digital / Technology / Website / Microsite - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD015
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
Barco de Papel
Title:
Barco de Papel
Category:
Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD023
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
Helions
Title:
Helions
Category:
Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD025
Award:
2025 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / London + Skatepal / London
Client:
SkatePal
Title:
Haraka Baraka
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_LT019
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Bai Fengkun / Beijing
Client:
Beijing Times Chinese Press
Title:
ShiQi's Calligraphy
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD079
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Yunqi Peng
Client:
N/A
Title:
The interpretation power of memories
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD080
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Mike Tully & Cat Wentworth / New York
Client:
Yale School of Architecture and MIT Press
Title:
Perspecta 56: Not Found
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD083
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Studio BLDG / Los Angeles
Client:
Huckabee College of Architecture @ Texas Tech
Title:
Crop X: Yield
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD084
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Client:
Markus Lange, Lars Harmsen / Slanted Publishers
Title:
REBEL PRINTS—The Poster Rex Manifesto
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD086
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Marc Jonathan Costello / New York + Jewish Currents / New York
Client:
Jewish Currents
Title:
After October 7
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD089
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
MuirMcNeil / London
Client:
MuirMcNeil
Title:
System Process Form
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD090
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Food / New York
Client:
Personal
Title:
NUTS
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD092
Award:
2024 Type Design TDC Best of Discipline
Agency:
Borna Izadpanah
Client:
Personal
Title:
Tabrizi Jali
Category:
Best of Type Design
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD001
Award:
2024 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Hirbod Lotfian / Amiens
Client:
N/A
Title:
Geste
Category:
Superfamily (non-related styles)
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD027
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Patrick Bittner / Saarbrücken
Client:
Patrick Bittner
Title:
26 Pilzfont
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD097
Award:
2024 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ricloud Type / Dalian
Client:
Hanyi Fonts
Title:
TieXian Kaishu Family
Category:
Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD025
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Dentsu West Japan / Kanazawa
Client:
Kanazawa Art Directors Club
Title:
Kanazawa ADC Annual
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD099
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
2xlab / New Haven
Client:
Non-Client
Title:
Repetition Poems
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD103
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at the American University of Beirut + AUB Press
Client:
Sawaf Center For Arab Comics Studies at the Americ
Title:
If Shehrazad Drew; Critical Writings on Arab Comic
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD104
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
阴林林 / 北京
Client:
化学工业出版社
Title:
穿越时代的荣耀：汉服文化
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD107
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Extended Whānau / Auckland
Client:
Massey University Press
Title:
Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD109
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Joanna Tyborowska / Cracow
Client:
N/A
Title:
Illegibility project
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD110
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd / Nanjing
Client:
江苏凤凰教育出版社
Title:
Global Spread of Sun Tzu's Art of War
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD111
