TDC2 2006 : Jury
Frank Blokland
Dutch Type Library
Yvonne Diedrich
ydt_fonts
Mark Jamra
TypeCulture
Teri Kahan
Teri Kahan Design
Ilene Strizver, Chair
The Type Studio
TDC2 2006 : Jury Bios
Yvonne Diedrich
Yvonne Diedrich was born in Vienna and raised bilingually in a family which is partially rooted in Slovakia, France, Germany and England. Started working as a freelance designer and letter artist in 1994. Had plans to become a painter originally.
The label ydt-fonts was founded by Yvonne Diedrich as an independent foundry for the design and implementation of exclusive typefaces and corporate images.
The main focus of the foundry is directed on type family systems and corporate fonts, aiming to develop new typographic mouldings. Thus her work attempts to utilize typography as an artistic medium in order to create a differential context, as typographic demands are diversifying.
Yvonne Diedrich has designed typefaces for ITC International Typeface Corporation, Letraset Ltd and custom clients. Her work has been published in U&lc, TDC Annual, Type Rules!, as well as others.
The text family ITC Dyadis was released 1998 by ITC International Typeface Corporation. This project gave Yvonne Diedrich the opportunity to work together with Ilene Strizver. In 2000 Letraset released the binary based text family Eplica. The series has been awarded by the Type Directors Club and used by Gail Anderson for TDC Annual Typography 22. Diego Vainesman chose Eplica as the corporate typeface for the TDC newsletter Letterspace. Currently Yvonne Diedrich is working on the launch of her new text family YDT Advena which will be released by ydt-fonts in 2006.
Mark Jamra
Mark Jamra is a type designer, typographic designer and Associate Professor at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine, USA. He has designed and produced typefaces for over 20 years and is the founder of TypeCulture, a digital type foundry and academic resource. He also designs books, creates short documentary films and is a partner in Alice Design Communication, a collective of communication designers and specialists in Portland. His typeface designs include: Alphatier, Brynmorgen Greek, Expo Sans, Expo Sans Dotscreen, Expo Sans Inline, ITC Jamille, Latienne, Quelle Bold, Tacitus and Kinesis, an Adobe Original. His lettering and typefaces have been shown in numerous exhibitions and have received awards from the Type Directors Club and the Association Typographique Internationale.
Mark graduated with a BFA degree from Kent State University and completed his graduate studies in 1983 at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. He has lectured, conducted workshops and taught graphic design, typography, letterform design and type history at colleges in the U.S. and Europe. He has also been a typographic consultant to the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, England and for URW Software & Type GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.