About us: 

The Type Directors Club is the leading international organization whose purpose is to support excellence in typography, both in print and on screen.

Founded in 1946 by some of the industry’s leading practitioners, the TDC’s earliest membership included Aaron Burns, Will Burtin, Freeman Craw, Louis Dorfsman, Gene Federico, Edward M. Gottschall, Herb Lubalin, Edward Rondthaler, Bradbury Thompson, and Hermann Zapf. With this solid historical background, the TDC today represents and rewards the best of today’s type design and type use.

The TDC holds two yearly type competitions one for the use of type and the letterform in design and the other, typeface design. The winners are reproduced in our Typography Annual, published by HarperCollins Publishers, as well as displayed in seven exhibits that travel worldwide. In addition to celebrating outstanding achievements, the typography competitions and resulting annuals serve as important historical records of typographic trends, and are an invaluable resource for both designers and scholars.

The competitions:

The TDC Annual is highly respected within the design community—many consider it the highest honor and most prestigious accomplishment to be featured on its pages. In becoming a winner in our competitions, you become a part of our rich history of typographic excellence.

Alongside our annual competitions, the TDC also awards very special members of our community, those that have devoted their lives making our world a more beautiful place through their amazing work by bestowing upon them our most prestigious award, the TDC Medal. Through the TDC Scholarship and TDC Student Awards, we hope to encourage the typographic leaders of tomorrow.

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