TDC2 2002 :
Type Directors Club
Type Design Competition

The judging of TDC2 2002 : Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2002 took place in New York City on Sunday, 20 January 2002, at the School of Visual Arts (209 East 23rd Street).

There were 119 submissions from fifteen countries. Fifteen entries were selected by the jury to represent the best in type design for the year 2001.

The members of the Jury and the Chairman of TDC2 2002, 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 2002.

Winning entries will be included in the 2002 TDC Annual, Typography 23, and will tour with the TDC48 Typography exhibition. The exhibition will open in the Summer of 2002 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/

TDC2 2002 Jury :
Weltz, Downer, Pasternak, Munch; Bell
Photo: Rick Cusick

TDC2 2002 : The Jury

Gary Munch, Chairman ( non-voting)

This year's jury is drawn from several spheres of typographic endeavor:

contemporary display, eternal text, technical and æsthetic exactitude, and intense daily use.

These distinguished practitioners agreed to join the jury:

Jill Bell

began her career as a lettering artist shortly after an encounter with a Speedball pen in a high school commercial art class.

She has worked as a graphic designer primarily doing lettering, calligraphy and type design for about two decades, with a few respites from the freelance existence: two years in which she worked as a signpainter, and a short stint as a production artist for Saul Bass in the 1980s.

Her typeface designs can be seen in the ITC catalog (Carumba,^TM Clover,^TM Gigi,^TM Hollyweird,^TM and Smack^TM), and in the Agfa-Monotype catalog, which includes her most recent release, Swank.^TM

Her face, Bruno,^TM for Adobe reflects an understanding of the written form applied to the regularity of type forms.

Her handlettering can be seen online at jillbell.com and in The Workbook.

John Downer

is a sign painter by trade, with a specialty in gold leaf lettering. He has a B.A. in Fine Art from Washington State University and both an M.A. and an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Iowa. He began his career as a freelance type designer in 1983.

His many typefaces have been published by Emigre (Vendetta,^TM Council,^TM and Brothers^TM); by Bitstream (Iowan Old Style^TM); by The Font Bureau in the United States; and by Design Lab of Milan, Italy.

Mr. Downer writes about type, and type history, for Emigre magazine, House magazine, and other publications. He lives in Iowa City, and travels throughout the United States and Europe, always on the lookout for interesting letterforms.

Dennis Pasternak

With nearly two decades of experience in the study and practice of type design, Dennis is an accomplished designer of original typefaces. Although it is mathematical figures and patterns that populate his computer monitors, Dennis senses the wood, metal and brush used by his professional antecedents.

Dennis' body of original designs includes Bitstream Chianti^TM as well as typefaces developed during his tenure at Galápagos Design Group: the Maiandra^TM GD family, Baltra^TM GD, and ITC Stylus.^TM

All of Dennis' designs have traditional roots, and are highly readable; they focus on the reader, rather than on their potential as graphic elements.

Dennis holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in design from the Massachusetts College of Art. He is also a member of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI).

Richard Weltz

After several years as an advertising agency copywriter and account executive, Dick joined his family's advertising typography firm, and has been involved in typeshop management ever since - working his way over some four decades through all the technology changes from hot metal to today's Postscript. He served as President of Typographers International Association, is the author of dozens of published articles on the typographic business, and has presented seminars to typographic groups in many cities around the country and abroad.

Over time, Dick narrowed his efforts to the field of foreign language typography and translation and headed up the New York City firm, Spectrum Multilanguage Communications.

While not laying claim to being a typeface designer by vocation, several Arabic fonts Dick designed were licensed and produced by Berthold; and a number of others were marketed by VGC as fonts for the PhotoTypositor.

Dick holds a degree in Public and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Rick Cusick

of Hallmark generously acted as alternate judge on recusals of regular jurors. Our gratitude to Rick for his assistance in making TDC2 2002 a great success.