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.

Books/Editorial

Award

Agency

Client

Title

Category

Annual ID

Tabrizi Jali Agency: Borna Izadpanah Client: Personal Category: Best of Type Design
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
穿越时代的荣耀:汉服文化 Agency: 阴林林 / 北京 Client: 化学工业出版社 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
Book Design in Joint Publishing (H.K.) (1948—2023) Agency: A³ DESIGN Lab / Shenzhen Client: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Sometimes You Want To Whimper Like a Child Agency: Laura Lotufo / São Paulo + Editora Carambaia / São Paulo Client: Carambaia Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Shepherds and the Slaughterhouse Agency: AA / Ljubljana Client: Simon Chang / Galerija Fotografija Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Stripburger 30: Dirty Thirty Agency: AA / Ljubljana Client: Stripburger / Forum Ljubljana Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Clothes for the People-Exhibition of Costumes Agency: 张志奇工作室 Client: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Tabrizi Jali Agency: Borna Izadpanah Client: Personal Category: Single Style Typeface
The Book Box Agency: 0. itemzero / Espinho + Maiadouro / Maia Client: 0. itemzero / Maiadouro Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
non nobis vol 2 Agency: büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart Client: Werner Sobek Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Series
A Wild Promise Agency: Plankton Art Co. / Mount Holly, NJ Client: Tin House Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series
Geste Agency: Hirbod Lotfian / Amiens Client: N/A Category: Superfamily (non-related styles)
TieXian Kaishu Family Agency: Ricloud Type / Dalian Client: Hanyi Fonts Category: Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)
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
BIGGER Agency: StudioSpass / Rotterdam Client: BIGGER art book exhibition Category: Environmental Design / Interactive / Experiential Design
Darvish Agency: Standard font Client: Personal Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
26 Pilzfont Agency: Patrick Bittner / Saarbrücken Client: Patrick Bittner Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series
How to have sex in 2023 Agency: Cyla Costa Studio / Curitiba Client: Women's Health Magazine Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
ART ATHINA Agency: G Design Studio / Athens Client: PSAT Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Fukt Magazine #21 The Unknown Issue Agency: Ariane Spanier Design / Berlin Client: Fukt Magazine for Drawing Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single
Box Hobsbawm Agency: Leonardo Iaccarino / Rio de Janeiro Client: Paz e Terra Category: Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single
MyKali Agency: Morcos Key / New York + MyKali Client: MyKali Category: Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single
Brigada Agency: Sumotype Foundry / Bogotá Client: Personal Category: Single Style Typeface
Zhian Typeface Agency: Frontline Typo Client: Frontline Typo Category: Single Style Typeface
REFERENCE Agency: out.o studio / Beijing Client: REFERENCE Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
The Black Wallstreet Times: Greenwood One Hundred Agency: Morcos Key / New York Client: The Black Wallstreet Times Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Geopolitics Agency: Burrow / Berlin Client: IDOLONSTUDIO (Chun-chi Wang) Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
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
"Lyutyy" Publication Agency: Studio Culture and Identity / Bremen Client: Studio Culture and Identity Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
ICAD X: PUBLIK CATALOGUE Agency: Studio Woork / Jakarta + Yayasan Design + Art Indonesia / Jakarta Client: Yayasan Design + Art Indonesia Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
Numerals of Injustice Daily Planner 2022 Agency: Frontline Typo + Studio Metaphor Client: Frontline Typo Platform Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
2022 Contents of the Year Agency: Heejae Kim / New York City Client: GQ Korea Category: Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single
LTR Principia* Agency: LettError / The Hague Client: Personal Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Sakkal Saad Arabic Typeface Agency: Sakkal Design / Bothell Client: Sakkal Design Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
Shorai Sans Agency: Monotype / Woburn Client: Monotype Category: Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)
What is design? 7th Anniversary Handbook Agency: ALINE STUDIO / Beijing (北京) Client: ALINE STUDIO Category: Print / Printed Ephemera / Cards / Stickers - Single
A Mountain of History. Agency: SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo + sora inc. / Tokyo + NIHON LITERAL Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo Client: SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / SEIBIDO Category: Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design
da nyet—yes no Agency: Berlin School of Design and Communication / Berlin Client: Private Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Annual Report 2021 Agency: République Studio / Paris Client: Centre National des Arts Plastiques Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Arizona Type Specimen Agency: Hanzer Liccini / Berlin + DInamo Typefaces Client: Dinamo Editions Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Nature Loves to Hide Agency: Shihong Chen / Beijing Client: Hanyu Cui & IS A GALLERY Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single
Redaction Agency: Practise / Auckland Client: W. W. Norton & Company Category: Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

2024 Type Design TDC Best of Discipline

Borna Izadpanah

Personal

Tabrizi Jali

Best of Type Design

TDC70_TD001

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Dentsu West Japan / Kanazawa

Kanazawa Art Directors Club

Kanazawa ADC Annual

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD099

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

2xlab / New Haven

Non-Client

Repetition Poems

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD103

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at the American University of Beirut + AUB Press

Sawaf Center For Arab Comics Studies at the Americ

If Shehrazad Drew; Critical Writings on Arab Comic

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD104

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

阴林林 / 北京

化学工业出版社

穿越时代的荣耀:汉服文化

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD107

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Extended Whānau / Auckland

Massey University Press

Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD109

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Joanna Tyborowska / Cracow

N/A

Illegibility project

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD110

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd / Nanjing

江苏凤凰教育出版社

Global Spread of Sun Tzu's Art of War

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD111

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

A³ DESIGN Lab / Shenzhen

Joint Publishing (H.K.)

Book Design in Joint Publishing (H.K.) (1948—2023)

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD112

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Laura Lotufo / São Paulo + Editora Carambaia / São Paulo

Carambaia

Sometimes You Want To Whimper Like a Child

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD114

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

AA / Ljubljana

Simon Chang / Galerija Fotografija

Shepherds and the Slaughterhouse

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD115

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

AA / Ljubljana

Stripburger / Forum Ljubljana

Stripburger 30: Dirty Thirty

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD116

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

张志奇工作室

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

Clothes for the People-Exhibition of Costumes

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC70_CD117

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Borna Izadpanah

Personal

Tabrizi Jali

Single Style Typeface

TDC70_TD001

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

0. itemzero / Espinho + Maiadouro / Maia

0. itemzero / Maiadouro

The Book Box

Publication / Editorial / Book - Series

TDC70_CD118

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

büro uebele visuelle kommunikation / Stuttgart

Werner Sobek

non nobis vol 2

Publication / Editorial / Book - Series

TDC70_CD119

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Plankton Art Co. / Mount Holly, NJ

Tin House

A Wild Promise

Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Series

TDC70_LT018

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Hirbod Lotfian / Amiens

N/A

Geste

Superfamily (non-related styles)

TDC70_TD027

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Ricloud Type / Dalian

Hanyi Fonts

TieXian Kaishu Family

Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)

TDC70_TD025

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

StudioTODO / Shanghai

佳作书局Paragon Book Gallery

佳作书局Paragon Book Gallery

Print or Digital / Brand Identity System

TDC70_CD058

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

StudioSpass / Rotterdam

BIGGER art book exhibition

BIGGER

Environmental Design / Interactive / Experiential Design

TDC70_CD126

2024 Type Design TDC Winner

Standard font

Personal

Darvish

Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)

TDC70_TD012

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Patrick Bittner / Saarbrücken

Patrick Bittner

26 Pilzfont

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Series

TDC70_CD097

2024 Lettering TDC Winner

Cyla Costa Studio / Curitiba

Women's Health Magazine

How to have sex in 2023

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_LT020

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

G Design Studio / Athens

PSAT

ART ATHINA

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC70_CD091

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Ariane Spanier Design / Berlin

Fukt Magazine for Drawing

Fukt Magazine #21 The Unknown Issue

Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single

TDC70_CD086

2024 Communication Design TDC Winner

Leonardo Iaccarino / Rio de Janeiro

Paz e Terra

Box Hobsbawm

Publication / Editorial / Book / Magazine Cover - Single

TDC70_CD087

2023 Lettering TDC Winner

Morcos Key / New York + MyKali

MyKali

MyKali

Print or Digital / Logotype / Monogram - Single

TDC69_LT007T

2023 Type Design TDC Winner

Sumotype Foundry / Bogotá

Personal

Brigada

Single Style Typeface

TDC69_TD002T

2023 Type Design TDC Winner

Frontline Typo

Frontline Typo

Zhian Typeface

Single Style Typeface

TDC69_TD013T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

out.o studio / Beijing

REFERENCE

REFERENCE

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY075T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Morcos Key / New York

The Black Wallstreet Times

The Black Wallstreet Times: Greenwood One Hundred

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY077T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Burrow / Berlin

IDOLONSTUDIO (Chun-chi Wang)

Geopolitics

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY079T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Irregulars Alliance LLP / New Delhi

Personal

The Irregular Times

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY080T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Ilya Bazhanov / Prague

Personal

ÉMIGRÉ. Type and typography in emigration.

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY082T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Andrea Tinnes with Burg Verlag / Halle + Print Workshop Burg Giebichenstein / Halle + 28 students of the design department at Burg Giebichenstein / Halle

Burg Verlag

Imagine

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY084T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Studio Culture and Identity / Bremen

Studio Culture and Identity

"Lyutyy" Publication

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY087T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Studio Woork / Jakarta + Yayasan Design + Art Indonesia / Jakarta

Yayasan Design + Art Indonesia

ICAD X: PUBLIK CATALOGUE

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_TY088T

2023 Lettering TDC Winner

Frontline Typo + Studio Metaphor

Frontline Typo Platform

Numerals of Injustice Daily Planner 2022

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_LT025T

2023 Lettering TDC Winner

Heejae Kim / New York City

GQ Korea

2022 Contents of the Year

Publication / Editorial / Editorial / Catalog / Magazine - Single

TDC69_LT029T

2023 Type Design TDC Winner

LettError / The Hague

Personal

LTR Principia*

Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)

TDC69_TD015T

2023 Type Design TDC Winner

Sakkal Design / Bothell

Sakkal Design

Sakkal Saad Arabic Typeface

Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)

TDC69_TD022T

2023 Type Design TDC Winner

Monotype / Woburn

Monotype

Shorai Sans

Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)

TDC69_TD024T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

ALINE STUDIO / Beijing (北京)

ALINE STUDIO

What is design? 7th Anniversary Handbook

Print / Printed Ephemera / Cards / Stickers - Single

TDC69_TY052T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo + sora inc. / Tokyo + NIHON LITERAL Co.,Ltd. / Tokyo

SEIBIDO Co.,Ltd. / SEIBIDO

A Mountain of History.

Environmental Design / Installation / Environmental Design

TDC69_TY118T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Berlin School of Design and Communication / Berlin

Private

da nyet—yes no

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC69_TY095T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

République Studio / Paris

Centre National des Arts Plastiques

Annual Report 2021

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC69_TY096T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Hanzer Liccini / Berlin + DInamo Typefaces

Dinamo Editions

Arizona Type Specimen

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC69_TY099T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Shihong Chen / Beijing

Hanyu Cui & IS A GALLERY

Nature Loves to Hide

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC69_TY100T

2023 Typography TDC Winner

Practise / Auckland

W. W. Norton & Company

Redaction

Publication / Editorial / Book - Single

TDC69_TY101T

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