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TDC Submission templates
Posted by Ryan Maelhorn in
17 Dec 2012 — 6:14pm
17 Dec 2012 — 6:14pm
Where can I get the submission templates described in this article:
http://ilovetypography.com/2012/12/09/tdc-type-design-competition-2012/
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18 Dec 2012 — 9:49am
You can't.
Those templates were used the first year of the competition, were deemed a failure and were never used again. There are no submission templates for the TDC Type design competition.
18 Dec 2012 — 10:46am
James, it would be interesting to see them, from an historical perspective, if they still exist in some form. I must have seen them at the time, but don't recall them. I do recall the complaints, which seemed to be mostly about the lack of creative freedom they imposed, rather than about the actual design of the templates.
18 Dec 2012 — 11:20am
John, I'll try to find them, but I don't hold out much hope. That was many computers ago, and I don't know if those files made it forward.
18 Dec 2012 — 12:41pm
Why, specifically, were they viewed as failures?
Might they be floating around the tdc.org website somewhere? I can still find many previous "call for entry"s there.
(BTW, I'm not planning on entering the competition any time soon, or using these templates when/if I do so.)
18 Dec 2012 — 1:43pm
Why, specifically, were they viewed as failures?
None of the entrants liked them, the judges hated them, and we quickly realized allowing submissions to be fine-tuned by those entering would provide a better result.
Might they be floating around the tdc.org website somewhere?
The first competition was held before the TDC had a web site. The templates may be floating around, but not on the web site.
Essentially the templates were made up of different sizes of text blocks on a 11 x 17 portrait page. For text submissions I think it went from 6 point up to 24 or so. For display entries it might have had a range of 14 to 96. With a character showing at the bottom. And a pangram headline at the top.
28 Dec 2012 — 1:21pm
John,
I found a printed version of the template for text design submissions. There was another for display that I cannot find. This one was printed on the back of the original Call for entries poster...
28 Dec 2012 — 1:33pm
This was the front of the poster if you are interested...