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The judging of TDC2 2003 : Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2002 took place in New York City on Saturday, 18 January 2003, at FIT, New York.
There were 119 submissions from twenty countries. Fifteen entries were selected by the jury to represent the best in type design for the year 2002.
The members of the Jury and the Chairman of TDC2 2003, 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 2003.
Winning entries will be included in the 2003 TDC Annual, Typography 24, and will tour with the TDC49 Typography exhibition. The exhibition will open in the Summer of 2003 in New York.
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/
Chairman
Dave Farey says his favorite animal is the polar bear, as like him, they are all left-handed. As a letter repairer, working with the digital punchcutter, Richard Dawson, at HouseStyle, they have designed fonts for editorial and corporate, and a variety of publication nameplates-but not as many as Jim Parkinson. Farey has created revivals and original fonts for Agfa, DigitalVision, FontHaus, ITC, Lanston Monotype and Letraset. Currently he is type consultant to the London Times.
Jim Parkinson has been fascinated by lettering and type ever since he was a young boy. Jim is an independent designer and principal of Parkinson Type Design in Oakland, California. For the past thirty years, he has specialized in the design of typefaces and typographic logos. Jim's magazine logo designs include Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Parenting, Sierra, and Esquire (collaborative), El Graphico (Argentina), Cosmos (Columbia) and TVyNovelas (Mexico). His newspaper nameplate designs include the San Francisco Examiner, the Austin American-Statesman, The Charlotte Observer, The National Post, The National Enquirer, The Hamilton Spectator, De Financiele Morgen (Brussels), Kathemerini (Athens), The Montreal Gazette, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press and The Wall Street Journal. He has drawn display typefaces for a number of publications including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Staten Island Advance and the National Post. Jim was one of the designers of ITC Bodoni and designed the logo for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Jim has designed over four dozen retail fonts available from various foundries including The Font Bureau, ITC, Adobe, Monotype/Agfa, FontShop. Samples of his work can be viewed at: www.typedesign.com.
Fiona F.G. Ross specializes in non-Latin type design and (following a BA degree in German and a Postgraduate Diploma in Sanskrit) has worked with Linotype since 1978. As Manager of Typographic Development (U.K.) for five years, she was responsible for the design of Linotype's non-Latin fonts and typesetting schemes. Since 1989 she has worked as a consultant, becoming freelance in 1995: clients include Linotype Library, Apple Computers, and Quark. Fiona has a PhD in Indian Palæography (SOAS, London University) and is visiting lecturer at Reading University. She has written one book and numerous articles, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Ilene Strizver is the founder of The Type Studio, is a typographic consultant, designer, writer and educator specializing in all aspect of visual communication, from the aesthetic to the technical. Her clients included Agfa Monotype Typography (AMT), Adobe, International Typeface Corporation (ITC), Johnson & Johnson and bethere.com. Ilene formerly was the Director of Typeface Development for International Typeface Corporation (ITC) where she developed more than 300 text and display typefaces with such respected and world-renowned type designers as Sumner Stone, Erik Spiekermann, Jill Bell, Jim Parkinson, Tim Donaldson, and the late Phill Grimshaw. She "cut her typographic teeth" by working on Upper and Lowercase (U&lc) and other type projects with such legendary icons as Ed Benguiat, Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin. Ilene is a member of the Type Directors Club and the New York Art Directors Club, and has won awards from them both for type and design. She has lectured extensively on type and typeface production to both students and professionals in the field. In addition to running her studio, she finds time to teach a course entitled Gourmet Typography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Her recent book, Type Rules! The designer's guide to professional typography, has received numerous accolades from the type and design community.
The Call for Entries for this past competition is available at:
http://www.tdc.org/calls/tdc22003/index.html