And the links don’t work.

Can anyone report experiences like “I had business increase / carreer progress because I delivered successfully to TDC comp.” – ?
I’m just curious.

I believe that some part of the initial success of Whitman and my subsequent involvement in the type industry can be attributed to being included in the TDC² 2002 competition. The visibility and distinction helped open doors.

Andreas, I've been fortunate to have "placed" in a few type
competitions (although not the TDC) and although I haven't
had a client explicitly say "I came to you because of that
competition you won" I have used the wins to woo new clients;
and it's not difficult to imagine that somebody who sees your
work published in any capacity is more likely to give you
business - it's just like regular advertising. Also, getting the
top prize in Granshan 2008 helped me to get on the jury for
Granshan 2010, and needless to say that looks pretty good on
a résumé. So it all builds up in various ways.

hhp

I've been waiting for your apology for years now Nick. All of us who were at the Cyrillic workshop were appalled at your behavior at the library.

why am I not surprised

All of us who were at the Cyrillic workshop were appalled at your behavior at the library.

What behaviour was that?

Legendary.

The curator looked as if you had farted in his face.

Or smelled one of his own, as it dawned on him that his audience were type designers not academics, and that he was way off base.

I had paid TDC good money to attend a seminar which included a visit to the New York Public Library to look at specimen books, and instead there I was being forced to sit through a dreary unillustrated talk on Russian history, which had very little to do with type. After 15 minutes of that, and with the clock ticking down to closing time, I decided I’d do us all a favour at the expense of a little personal embarrassment. I don’t recall exactly what I said, but I’m pretty sure I would have interrupted the curator as politely as possible, with “Excuse me…” which is by way of an apology.

I didn’t feel an apology to the other designers was necessary, as I assumed they were thankful for my little “outburst” and I didn’t poll them to see whether they were appalled, offended, or merely amused by it.

Thanks for the reminder, Maxim.