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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
Are awards candy or poison?
Agency: Ken-Tsai Lee Design Lab / Taipei
Client: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Category: Environmental Design / Interactive / Experiential Design
Deem Symposium Branding, Designing for Dignity
Agency: ROOM FOR MAGIC / Los Angeles
Client: Deem Journal Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Ritornello–BIFT 2024
Agency: Mint Design / Beijing
Client: BIFT Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Playwrite
Agency: TypeTogether + Google Fonts
Client: TypeTogether Category: Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
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
Words of Type
Agency: Words of Type Studio / Nantes + Goodthing Studio / Nantes + Grégory Taniguchi-Ambos / Arles
Client: N/A Category: Digital / Technology / Website / Microsite - Single
Haraka Baraka
Agency: Pentagram / London + Skatepal / London
Client: SkatePal Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single
Crop X: Yield
Agency: Studio BLDG / Los Angeles
Client: Huckabee College of Architecture @ Texas Tech Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
How Communication Design Works
Agency: Ulysses Voelker / Michael Schmitz / Köln + Niggli / Salenstein
Client: Personal Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Performance-Based Assessment in Early Childhood
Agency: apt.apt.studio / 上海 + Yueqing Municipal Education Bureau / 温州市乐清市 + ZHEJIANG EDUCATION PUBLISHING HOUSE / 温州市乐清市
Client: Yueqing Municipal Education Bureau Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
BlockFace
Agency: Will Mower / London + Open Press Project / Cologne
Client: Will Mower Category: Best of Lettering
Live Wired Motion visuals
Agency: Mònica Losada / Brooklyn, NY
Client: Wired Magazine Category: Motion / Kinetic Typography - Single
THE SWAP SHOW EDITION 2
Agency: Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore
Client: THE SWAP SHOW Category: Motion / Animated Posters - Series
Tag der offenen Tür
Agency: Neeser Müller Görner / Basel
Client: Schule für Gestaltung Basel Category: Print / Posters - Single
Stanford d.school Yearbook ’22
Agency: Daniel Frumhoff Design + Stanford University d.school
Client: Stanford University d.school 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)
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
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
Book Design in Joint Publishing (H.K.) (1948—2023)
Agency: A³ DESIGN Lab / Shenzhen
Client: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
A Wild Promise
Agency: Plankton Art Co. / Mount Holly, NJ
Client: Tin House Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
Design Diplomacy: On the Road
Agency: Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore
Client: Design Diplomacy: On the Road Category: Motion / Credits or Titles
UKRAINIAN LETTERS (temporary) MUSEUM
Agency: Kateryna Korolevtseva / Kyiv
Client: Personal Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde
Agency: Poster House / New York
Client: Poster House Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Calligraphic Editorial
Agency: Maria Montes / Melbourne + Middlebury Magazine / Middlebury, Vermont 05753 + Pentagram / Austin
Client: Middlebury Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
THE SWAP SHOW EDITION 2
Agency: Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore
Client: THE SWAP SHOW Category: Print / Posters - Series
Ricloud XiuWu Family
Agency: Ricloud Type / Dalian + Hanyi Fonts / Beijing
Client: Hanyi Fonts Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Tyrol University College of Teacher Education
Agency: büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart
Client: arsp architekten Category: Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
DOTSSS CHILDREN’S MUSEUM SIGNAGE
Agency: PRISM DESIGN STUDIO / Chengdu
Client: WIDE HORIZON Category: Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
BlockFace
Agency: Will Mower / London + Open Press Project / Cologne
Client: Will Mower Category: Other
The Book Box
Agency: 0. itemzero / Espinho + Maiadouro / Maia
Client: 0. itemzero / Maiadouro Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Metawhat?
Agency: Sharaf Studio + Khajag Apelian
Client: The Media Majlis at Northwestern University Qatar Category: Variable Font
I Want Festival 2023
Agency: STUDIO KEKFENG / kuala lumpur + Huruf / kuala lumpur + Adrble Studio / kuala lumpur
Client: Hi-Lighter Category: Print or Digital / Instructional Design / Forms / Information Design - Series
Courses and Workshops 2023
Agency: Thiago Lacaz / Rio de Janeiro
Client: Sesc Avenida Paulista Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
佳作书局Paragon Book Gallery
Agency: StudioTODO / Shanghai
Client: 佳作书局Paragon Book Gallery Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Vitenskapsmuseet Logo
Agency: TRY / Oslo
Client: Vitenskapsmuseet Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Identity for Oslo’s Natural History Museum
Agency: Bleed Design Studio / Oslo
Client: Naturhistorisk museum Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
RISD Identity
Agency: Gretel / Brooklyn + Ryan Bugden / Brooklyn + On Road / London
Client: RISD Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
The Irregular Times
Agency: Irregulars Alliance LLP / New Delhi
Client: Personal Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
ÉMIGRÉ. Type and typography in emigration.
Agency: Ilya Bazhanov / Prague
Client: Personal Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Imagine
Agency: Andrea Tinnes with Burg Verlag / Halle + Print Workshop Burg Giebichenstein / Halle + 28 students of the design department at Burg Giebichenstein / Halle
Client: Burg Verlag Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
BİRARADA 9 TOGETHER 9
Agency: Ruslan Abasov / İstanbul
Client: Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Category: Motion / Animated Posters - Single
Arabic Lettering Workshop
Agency: Morcos Key / New York
Client: Minneapolis College of Art and Design Category: Print / Posters - 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 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ken-Tsai Lee Design Lab / Taipei
Client:
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Title:
Are awards candy or poison?
Category:
Environmental Design / Interactive / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD098
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:
Mint Design / Beijing
Client:
BIFT
Title:
Ritornello–BIFT 2024
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD067
Award:
2025 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
TypeTogether + Google Fonts
Client:
TypeTogether
Title:
Playwrite
Category:
Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Annual ID:
TDC71_TD027
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:
Words of Type Studio / Nantes + Goodthing Studio / Nantes + Grégory Taniguchi-Ambos / Arles
Client:
N/A
Title:
Words of Type
Category:
Digital / Technology / Website / Microsite - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD017
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:
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:
Ulysses Voelker / Michael Schmitz / Köln + Niggli / Salenstein
Client:
Personal
Title:
How Communication Design Works
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD085
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
apt.apt.studio / 上海 + Yueqing Municipal Education Bureau / 温州市乐清市 + ZHEJIANG EDUCATION PUBLISHING HOUSE / 温州市乐清市
Client:
Yueqing Municipal Education Bureau
Title:
Performance-Based Assessment in Early Childhood
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD091
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 Lettering TDC Best of Discipline
Agency:
Will Mower / London + Open Press Project / Cologne
Client:
Will Mower
Title:
BlockFace
Category:
Best of Lettering
Annual ID:
TDC70_LT001
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:
Donald Zhu / Toronto
Client:
Self
Title:
VECTOR
Category:
Motion / Kinetic Typography - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD010
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Mònica Losada / Brooklyn, NY
Client:
Wired Magazine
Title:
Live Wired Motion visuals
Category:
Motion / Kinetic Typography - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD002
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore
Client:
THE SWAP SHOW
Title:
THE SWAP SHOW EDITION 2
Category:
Motion / Animated Posters - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD016
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Neeser Müller Görner / Basel
Client:
Schule für Gestaltung Basel
Title:
Tag der offenen Tür
Category:
Print / Posters - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD063
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Daniel Frumhoff Design + Stanford University d.school
Client:
Stanford University d.school
Title:
Stanford d.school Yearbook ’22
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD098
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:
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:
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
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
A³ DESIGN Lab / Shenzhen
Client:
Joint Publishing (H.K.)
Title:
Book Design in Joint Publishing (H.K.) (1948—2023)
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD112
Award:
2024 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Plankton Art Co. / Mount Holly, NJ
Client:
Tin House
Title:
A Wild Promise
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_LT018
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore
Client:
Design Diplomacy: On the Road
Title:
Design Diplomacy: On the Road
Category:
Motion / Credits or Titles
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD020
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Kateryna Korolevtseva / Kyiv
Client:
Personal
Title:
UKRAINIAN LETTERS (temporary) MUSEUM
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD122
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Poster House / New York
Client:
Poster House
Title:
Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD124
Award:
2024 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Maria Montes / Melbourne + Middlebury Magazine / Middlebury, Vermont 05753 + Pentagram / Austin
Client:
Middlebury Magazine
Title:
Calligraphic Editorial
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_LT021
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Foreign Policy Design Group / Singapore
Client:
THE SWAP SHOW
Title:
THE SWAP SHOW EDITION 2
Category:
Print / Posters - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD065
Award:
2024 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ricloud Type / Dalian + Hanyi Fonts / Beijing
Client:
Hanyi Fonts
Title:
Ricloud XiuWu Family
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD015
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart
Client:
arsp architekten
Title:
Tyrol University College of Teacher Education
Category:
Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD130
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
PRISM DESIGN STUDIO / Chengdu
Client:
WIDE HORIZON
Title:
DOTSSS CHILDREN’S MUSEUM SIGNAGE
Category:
Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD132
Award:
2024 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Will Mower / London + Open Press Project / Cologne
Client:
Will Mower
Title:
BlockFace
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC70_LT001
Award:
2024 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Katya Slobodskaia
Client:
iM A STUDIO
Title:
Live-Typography for iM A STUDiO
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC70_LT027
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
0. itemzero / Espinho + Maiadouro / Maia
Client:
0. itemzero / Maiadouro
Title:
The Book Box
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD118
Award:
2024 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Sharaf Studio + Khajag Apelian
Client:
The Media Majlis at Northwestern University Qatar
Title:
Metawhat?
Category:
Variable Font
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD035
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
STUDIO KEKFENG / kuala lumpur + Huruf / kuala lumpur + Adrble Studio / kuala lumpur
Client:
Hi-Lighter
Title:
I Want Festival 2023
Category:
Print or Digital / Instructional Design / Forms / Information Design - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD025
Award:
2024 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Borna Izadpanah
Client:
Personal
Title:
Tabrizi Jali
Category:
Single Style Typeface
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD001
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Thiago Lacaz / Rio de Janeiro
Client:
Sesc Avenida Paulista
Title:
Courses and Workshops 2023
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD040
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
StudioTODO / Shanghai
Client:
佳作书局Paragon Book Gallery
Title:
佳作书局Paragon Book Gallery
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD058
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
TRY / Oslo
Client:
Vitenskapsmuseet
Title:
Vitenskapsmuseet Logo
Category:
Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD033
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Bleed Design Studio / Oslo
Client:
Naturhistorisk museum
Title:
Identity for Oslo’s Natural History Museum
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY031T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Gretel / Brooklyn + Ryan Bugden / Brooklyn + On Road / London
Client:
RISD
Title:
RISD Identity
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY035T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Irregulars Alliance LLP / New Delhi
Client:
Personal
Title:
The Irregular Times
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY080T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ilya Bazhanov / Prague
Client:
Personal
Title:
ÉMIGRÉ. Type and typography in emigration.
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY082T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Andrea Tinnes with Burg Verlag / Halle + Print Workshop Burg Giebichenstein / Halle + 28 students of the design department at Burg Giebichenstein / Halle
Client:
Burg Verlag
Title:
Imagine
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY084T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ruslan Abasov / İstanbul
Client:
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Title:
BİRARADA 9 TOGETHER 9
Category:
Motion / Animated Posters - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY011T
Award:
2023 Lettering TDC Winner
Agency:
Morcos Key / New York
Client:
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Title:
Arabic Lettering Workshop
Category:
Print / Posters - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_LT019T
