TDC2 2001:

The Competition

The judging of TDC² 2001 (Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2001) took place in New York City on Sunday, January 21, 2001, at the School of Visual Arts (209 East 23rd Street).

There were 135 submissions from 13 countries. Fourteen were selected by the jury to represent the best in type design for the year 2000.

The members of the Jury and the Chairman of TDC² 2001, the members of the TDC Board of Directors and the President of the Type Directors Club extend their warmest congratulations to the designers whose entries have won in the competition. We trust this recognition will inspire future participation in the Type Directors Club competitions. The Type Directors Club acknowledges the enthusiastic support of all who entered their designs to the Type Design Competition of 2001.

Winning entries will be included in the 2001 TDC Typography Annual.

For further information, please contact the TDC offices:
Carol Wahler, Executive Director
T: 1-212-983-6042
F: 1-212-983-6043
E: director@tdc.org
W: http://www.tdc.org/

The Jury

John D. Berry, Chairman ( non-voting)

Robert Bringhurst

is a poet & typographic historian living in Vancouver. His book The Elements of Typographic Style (2nd ed., 1996) is widely used as a textbook and serves as a standard reference in the field. He is also the author, with Warren Chappell, of the newly revised and updated Short History of the Printed Word.

Tobias Frere-Jones

was born in 1970 in New York. An artist being raised in a family of writers & printers, he learned the power of written text, and naturally slipped into design of letterforms. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 and began full-time work for the Font Bureau as a Senior Designer. He recently left Font Bureau to return to New York, to collaborate with type designer Jonathan Hoefler. To date, he has designed over 300 typefaces for retail distribution, custom clients, & experiments. At Yale School of Design, he teaches a type design course with Matthew Carter.

Helen Keyes

is Creative Director at Enterprise IG, where she is responsible for the creative initiative of projects. In this capacity she conjures beautiful, effective ideas for corporate & product branding initiatives. Before joining Enterprise IG, Helen was an external consultant to Diefenbach Elkins Davis Baron in the United Kingdom. She has also been an external consultant to Real Time Studio (U.K.). Prior to this she was a Senior Designer with Wolff Olins Design, London, & before that she was a Design Director with Sampson Tyrrell Design, London. She began her career as a graphic designer with Raymond Loewy International in London.

Carol Twombly

became interested in type while studying graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she graduated with a BFA in 1981. She entered & won first prize (Latin text division) in the 1984 Morisawa Typeface Design Competition with her first original typeface, Mirarae, based on her calligraphy. She became a full-time member of the Adobe type staff in March 1988, and continued there as one of three principle designers until July of 1999. She is the designer of the first three display typefaces in the Adobe Originals collection: Trajan, Charlemagne, & Lithos. She also designed Adobe Caslon, a digital revival of William Caslon's metal typeface family, and several original multiple master families: Myriad (co-designed with Robert Slimbach), Viva, Nueva, & Chaparral.