TDC2006: Winning Entries Announced

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Addendum:

TDC52 and TDC2 2006

New York – Gary Munch, President of the Type Directors Club, has announced that
the fifty-second annual Type Directors Club competition, TDC52 and the ninth
annual TDC Typeface Design Competition, TDC2 2006 was successful.

TDC52 was chaired by Diego Vainesman, MJM Creative Services. The jury included:
Andy Altman (Why Not Associates, London); Mike Joyce (Steretoype); Alexa Nosal
(New York); Emily Oberman (Number Seventeen); Woody Pirtle (Pentagram, New
York); Steve Sandstrom (Sandstrom, Portland, Oregon), and Brady Vest
(Hammerpress, Kansas City, Missiouri).

This year entries were received from 29 countries of which, 40% were from outside
the U.S.. Total work selected included 113 from 17 countries and 92 from the U.S.
The countries include: Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, England, Germany, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain,Switzerland., and
Taiwan.

Each year, for the past six, the TDC honors three students will monetary awards. The
three students include: First Place $500 Daniel Janssen, University of Applied
Sciences Hamburg, Germany; Second Place $300 Ryan Feerer, School of Visual Arts,
New York, and Third Place $200 Peter Brugger, Fachhschule Pforzheim, Germany.

The Type Directors Club Typeface Design Competition, TDC2 2006 was chaired by
Ilene Strizver (The Type Studio) and juried Yvonne Dieterich (ydt.fonts); Mark Jamra
(TypeCulture), Teri Kahan (Teri Kahan Design) and James Montalbano (Terminal
Design, Inc.). The members of the ad-hoc TDC Non-Latin Advisory Board who
provided their analysis of the non-Latin designs to the judges of TDC2 2006 were:
Gayaneh Bagdasaryan (type designer, Russia); Misha Beletsky (book designer, U.S.);
Dr. Martinus J. Heijdra (Princeton University, U.S.); Gerry Leonidas (Reading
University, U.K.), Mamoun Sakkal (type designer, U.S.); Manvel Shmavonyan (type
designer, Armenia); Vladimir Yefimov, (ParaType, Russia) and Maxim Zhukov.
The jury reviewed over 100 entries from 17 countries and selected 14 typefaces from
seven countries in the ninth annual TDC event which was judged in a single,
concentrated day of judging.

Ms. Strizver stated “This year’s entries consisted of an expansive array of exciting new
designs, well-crafted historic revivals, innovative calligraphic typefaces, as well as a
broad range of non-latin designs. The winners truly represent the very best of what is
happening in the type world today”.

The winners include: Adobe Arabic (Tim Holloway, Edgware, UK); Ariene (Adriane
Krakowski for Elsner+Flake, Germany); Calouste (Miguel Sousa, Reading, England);
Darka ( Gabriel Martinez Meave, Diseño Kimera, Mexico City, Mexico); Frutiger
Next Greek (Adrian Frutiger and Eva Masoura, Germany); Adobe Garamond Premier
Pro (Robert Slimbach, Mountainview, California); FF Headz (Florian Zietz, Hamburg,
Germany); Hogariet (Habib Khoury, Avantype Foundry, Israel); Piclig (Christina
Schultz, Berlin, Germany); Quixote (Inigo Jerez Quintana, textaxis.com, Barcelona,
Spain); Rayuela Chocolate 2.0 (Alejandro Lo Celso, Cholula, Mexico); Relato Sans
(Eduardo Manso, EmType Foundry, Barcelona, Spain); P22 Sweepy (Michael Clark,
Richmond, Virginia), and Vista Sans (Xavier Dupré, Bangkok, Thailand).

The winner’s work will appear in the Type Directors Club annual, Typography 27, also
designed by Andy Kner, and published by Collins Design International. The annual
will be available in bookstores. The winning entries will also be exhibited in the
summer of 2006 in a New York City and six duplicate exhibits will travel to cities in
Canada, Europe, Japan and the U.S.

The Type Directors Club is a non profit professional organization founded in 1946, and
dedicated to educating its international membership and graphic arts community
about type, type design and its myriad of uses in the field of communications.

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For further information contact:
Carol Wahler, Executive Director
t: 212-633-8943
f: 212-633-8944
e: director [at] tdc [dot] org
w: www.tdc.org