TDC Awards
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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)
Anonymous Landscapes
Agency: BY-ENJOY DESIGN / FUJIAN
Client: Yi Museum Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Motion & Graphic Typography Design Exhibition
Agency: THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client: Shenzhen Graphic Design Association Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
China TDC 2024
Agency: THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client: Shenzhen Graphic Design Association Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Windham Campbell
Agency: Pentagram / New York
Client: Windham Campbell Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Playwrite
Agency: TypeTogether + Google Fonts
Client: TypeTogether Category: Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Motion & Graphic Typography Design Exhibition
Agency: THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client: Shenzhen Graphic Design Association Category: Motion / Animated Posters - Single
China TDC 2024
Agency: THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client: Shenzhen Graphic Design Association Category: Motion / Animated Posters - Single
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
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
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
TheMet Arabic Logo Adaptation
Agency: Morcos Key
Client: TheMet Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - 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
Heterogeneous Constructions
Agency: Andrew LeClair + Birkhäuser
Client: Birkhäuser Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - 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
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
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
Darvish
Agency: Standard font
Client: Personal Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Baden-Württemberg Music Centre signage system
Agency: büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart
Client: Blasmusikverband Baden-Württemberg Category: Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
O lieb’, solang du lieben kannst!
Agency: 易鸣/Ming Yi / Karlsruhe + Bauhaus Universität Weimar / Weimar + Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe
Client: Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe 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
Taiping Market
Agency: United Design Lab
Client: Art Field Nanhai 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
Degrees of Love in Arabic Language
Agency: Zayed University / Dubai
Client: Personal Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
GDC Award 30 Years
Agency: LiaoDesign
Client: Shenzhen Graphic Design Association Category: Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
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
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
Ara Tangut
Agency: Willow Type Foundry / Tokyo
Client: Shintaro Arakawa / Tokyo University of Foreign Stu Category: Single Style Typeface
RISD Serif and RISD Sans
Agency: Ryan Bugden / Brooklyn + Gretel / Brooklyn
Client: RISD Category: Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
The Black Experience in Design
Agency: renald Louissaint / New York, New York + Kelly Walters / Stamford, CT + Anne H. Berry / Cleveland, OH
Client: Skyhorse Publishing / Allworth Press Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single
World Cup 2022 Posters
Agency: Underline Studio / Toronto + Flash Reproductions / Toronto
Client: George Brown College, School of Design Category: Print / Posters - Series
ᎧᎹᎹ "Kamama" - Woven Sketchbook cover
Agency: Monique Ortman / Harrah
Client: Personal Category: Other / Non-traditional Media - Single
The Workshop Series on “Science, Media and Art”
Agency: Jun Design / Guangzhou, Guangdong
Client: School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art Category: Print or Digital / Invitations / Announcements / Cards - Series
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 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Junyan Hu / New York
Client:
N/A
Title:
Greave
Category:
Other / Non-traditional Media - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD102
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
BY-ENJOY DESIGN / FUJIAN
Client:
Yi Museum
Title:
Anonymous Landscapes
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD031
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client:
Shenzhen Graphic Design Association
Title:
Motion & Graphic Typography Design Exhibition
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD032
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client:
Shenzhen Graphic Design Association
Title:
China TDC 2024
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD033
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Pentagram / New York
Client:
Windham Campbell
Title:
Windham Campbell
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD038
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 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client:
Shenzhen Graphic Design Association
Title:
Motion & Graphic Typography Design Exhibition
Category:
Motion / Animated Posters - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD008
Award:
2025 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
THE END DESIGN® / Guangzhou
Client:
Shenzhen Graphic Design Association
Title:
China TDC 2024
Category:
Motion / Animated Posters - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD009
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 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:
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 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Morcos Key
Client:
TheMet
Title:
TheMet Arabic Logo Adaptation
Category:
Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD022
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:
Andrew LeClair + Birkhäuser
Client:
Birkhäuser
Title:
Heterogeneous Constructions
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual ID:
TDC71_CD093
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:
Donald Zhu / Toronto
Client:
Self
Title:
VECTOR
Category:
Motion / Kinetic Typography - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD010
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 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 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:
Standard font
Client:
Personal
Title:
Darvish
Category:
Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD012
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart
Client:
Blasmusikverband Baden-Württemberg
Title:
Baden-Württemberg Music Centre signage system
Category:
Environmental Design / Signage / Wayfinding - Series
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD131
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
易鸣/Ming Yi / Karlsruhe + Bauhaus Universität Weimar / Weimar + Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe
Client:
Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
Title:
O lieb’, solang du lieben kannst!
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD138
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 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Borna Izadpanah
Client:
Personal
Title:
Tabrizi Jali
Category:
Single Style Typeface
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD001
Award:
2024 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
founderType / BEIJING
Client:
N/A
Title:
FZLingFeiG
Category:
Single Style Typeface
Annual ID:
TDC70_TD005
Award:
2024 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
United Design Lab
Client:
Art Field Nanhai
Title:
Taiping Market
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC70_CD055
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:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Zayed University / Dubai
Client:
Personal
Title:
Degrees of Love in Arabic Language
Category:
Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY117T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
LiaoDesign
Client:
Shenzhen Graphic Design Association
Title:
GDC Award 30 Years
Category:
Print or Digital / Brand Identity System
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY030T
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:
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:
Liad Shadmi
Client:
N/A
Title:
The Alphabetical Room
Category:
Other
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY130T
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 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Willow Type Foundry / Tokyo
Client:
Shintaro Arakawa / Tokyo University of Foreign Stu
Title:
Ara Tangut
Category:
Single Style Typeface
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD004T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Ryan Bugden / Brooklyn + Gretel / Brooklyn
Client:
RISD
Title:
RISD Serif and RISD Sans
Category:
Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD038T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
renald Louissaint / New York, New York + Kelly Walters / Stamford, CT + Anne H. Berry / Cleveland, OH
Client:
Skyhorse Publishing / Allworth Press
Title:
The Black Experience in Design
Category:
Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY068T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Underline Studio / Toronto + Flash Reproductions / Toronto
Client:
George Brown College, School of Design
Title:
World Cup 2022 Posters
Category:
Print / Posters - Series
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY048T
Award:
2023 Type Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Reina Akkoush
Client:
Personal
Title:
Yasar
Category:
Variable Font
Annual ID:
TDC69_TD049T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Monique Ortman / Harrah
Client:
Personal
Title:
ᎧᎹᎹ "Kamama" - Woven Sketchbook cover
Category:
Other / Non-traditional Media - Single
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY123T
Award:
2023 Communication Design TDC Winner
Agency:
Jun Design / Guangzhou, Guangdong
Client:
School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art
Title:
The Workshop Series on “Science, Media and Art”
Category:
Print or Digital / Invitations / Announcements / Cards - Series
Annual ID:
TDC69_TY024T
