The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has opened the global call for entries for its prestigious TDC72 competition. TDC72 recognizes typographic excellence and innovation, while maintaining its ongoing commitment to the art and craft of typography and design. Winners will receive TDC Type-High Gold, Silver, Bronze awards or Merit certificates, and a digital seal certifying their work is among the world’s best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, The World’s Best Typography®, and showcased in a number of exhibitions that travel to museums, schools, and design organizations around the world.

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The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has opened the global call for entries for its prestigious TDC71 competition. TDC71 recognizes typographic excellence and innovation, while maintaining its ongoing commitment to the art and craft of typography and design. Winners of TDC71 receive a Certificate of Typographic Excellence and digital seal certifying their work is among the world’s best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, The World’s Best Typography®, and showcased in eight exhibitions that travel to museums, schools and design organizations around the world. These shows travel throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asian countries.

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The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, is calling for entries, for its 70th Annual Competition. TDC70 recognizes typographic excellence and innovation, while maintaining its ongoing commitment to the art and craft of typography and design. Winners of TDC70 receive a Certificate of Typographic Excellence and digital seal certifying their work is among the world’s best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, The World’s Best Typography®, and showcased in eight exhibitions that travel to museums, schools and design organizations around the world. These shows travel throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asian countries.

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Type Directors Club (TDC) is currently accepting applications to the Ascenders 2023 competition, that recognizes designers on the rise from all parts of the world. Ascenders is for all typographic creatives age 35 or under. You can apply individually, or as a duo if you do your best work as part of a team. Winners become part of the esteemed and rarefied TDC Ascenders family, a collection of creatives known to be at the apex of their craft. Only a select few winners are chosen every year, making the recognition that much more earned. Winners will be feted at a celebration held in New York and online on 8th June 2023.

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The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, is calling for entries, for its 69th Annual Competition. Previously divided into two competitions, one each for Communications Design and Typeface Design, the program is now a single competition under this year’s umbrella of TDC69, consisting of three disciplines: Type Design, Typography, and, for the first time, Lettering. Winners of TDC69 receive a Certificate of Typographic Excellence and digital seal certifying their work is among the world’s best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, The World’s Best Typography®, and showcased in eight exhibitions that travel to museums, schools and design organizations around the world.

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The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, has opened the call for entries for its two premiere global awards programs: TDC68 Communication Design and expanded 25TDC Typeface Design competitions. TDC68 recognizes how letterforms are used, honoring typographic excellence and innovation along with the art and craft of typography and design. 25TDC focuses on how letterforms are drawn, and celebrates new typeface designs in non-Latin letterforms. The competitions regularly receive entries from more than 60 countries. This year’s awards competitions reflect TDC’s ongoing commitment to increase the level of diversity and representation in its juries, awards entries and general programming, as well as among TDC membership and on its Advisory Board.

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The Type Directors Club’s TDC67 and 24TDC, the biggest and most respected awards in the world of type design and typography, are now open for entries. TDC67, the Type Directors Club 67th annual international competition, recognizes typographic excellence and innovation, while maintaining its ongoing commitment to the art and craft of typography and design. Established in 1955, TDC’s Communication Design competition celebrates the aesthetics and implementation of typography and lettering across a wide variety of media. From the script on a poster to the tagline on a billboard, from the opening titles of a film to the text in an app, from a company’s wordmark to the coolest T-shirt in your closet, TDC67 is a vast amusement park where letters, numerals, and symbols come to play.

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Type Directors Club (TDC) is hosting its 23rd annual Typeface Design Competition and accepting work by designers from all around the world. Any new typeface designs produced or published between 1st January and 31st December, 2019 are eligible. Entries selected by the jury will receive Certificates of Typographic Excellence. They will be exhibited in the 66th TDC Exhibition and appear in Typography 41. The opening of TDC66 will be held in New York City and will be on display during the summer of 2019.

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Type Directors Club (TDC) is hosting its 66th annual Communication Design Competition and accepts original work by designers worldwide. Print or Digital Media (single or series) entries which have been produced or published during 2019 are eligible for submission. Entries selected by the jury will receive Certificates of Typographic Excellence. They will be exhibited in the 66th TDC Exhibition and appear in Typography 41. The opening of TDC66 will be held in New York City and will be on display during the summer of 2020.

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Type Directors Club (TDC) is hosting its 65th annual Communication Design Competition and accepts original work by designers worldwide. Print or Digital Media (single or series) entries which have been produced or published during 2018 are eligible for submission. Professional and Student work is judged separately. Entries selected by the jury will receive Certificates of Typographic Excellence. They will be exhibited in the 65th TDC Exhibition and appear in Typography 40. The opening of TDC65 will be held in New York City and will be on display during the summer of 2019.

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