TDC2 2000:

The Competition

The judging of TDC² 2000 (Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2000) took place in New York City on Sunday, January 23, 2000, at the School of Visual Arts (209 East 23rd Street).

The contest was judged by Matthew Carter, Barry Deck, John Hudson and Kathleen Tinkel. Maxim Zhukov chaired the Jury. Carol Wahler, the Executive Director of the Type Directors Club, Klaus Schmidt, and the members of the TDC Board of Directors provided assistance in the preparations for, and the judging of, the competition.

102 designers from twenty-four countries participated in the competition. 185 entries competed in five categories: Text designs, Display designs, Text/display type systems, Type superfamilies, and Pi fonts. Nine alphabets/writing systems have been represented by the entries to TDC² 2000: Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Glagolitic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, and Morse code.

18 entries have been chosen by the Jury of TDC² 2000 to receive the Certificates of Excellence in Type Design. Four typefaces have been selected by the individual jurors as their personal choices.

All winning entries will be included in Typography 21, the annual publication of the Type Directors Club, and shown at the TDC Awards Exhibition in New York City, from June through mid-September 2000; they will also be included in the exhibitions touring the United States, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, Mexico and Australia.

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/

TDC 2000: The Winning Entries

In alphabetical order, of course!

Arcana Manuscript [d]
Gabriel Martinez Meave
Mexico

Biblon [t]
Frantisek Storm
Czech Republic

Blue Island [d]
Jeremy Tankard
United Kingdom

Cholla Slab [t/d]
Sibylle Hagmann
United States

FF Clifford [t]
Akira Kobayashi
Japan

Costa [t/d]
Jean-Francois Porchez
France

Erica Sans [t]
Yanek Iontef
Israel

Homemade [t/d]
Takaya Goto, United States
Takashi Konuma, Japan

Bitstream Kis Cyrillic [t]
Vladimir Yefimov
Russia

Klin [d]
Gayaneh Bagdasaryan
Russia

Mexica [t]
Gabriel Martinez Meave
Mexico

Mirra [d]
Tagir Safayev
Russia

Diwan Mishafi [t]
Hamid Al-Saadi
Iraq

Myriad Pro Greek [t/d]
Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly
United States

Nani [d]
Charles Nix
United States

Profile [t]
Martin Wenzel
The Netherlands

Silentium Pro [t/d]
Jovica Veljovic
Yugoslavia/Germany

Linotype Syntax [t/d]
Hans Eduard Meier
Switzerland

Judges' Choices

The judges of TDC2 2000 have selected the following designs as their personal choices:

Matthew Carter:
Biblon [t], by Frantisek Storm, Czech Republic;

Barry Deck:
Summa Gambit [d], by Damir Gamulin, Croatia;

John Hudson:
Bitstream Kis Cyrillic [t], by Vladimir Yefimov, Russia;

Kathleen Tinkel:
Cheneau [t/d], by Daniel Carr, United States.

The members of the Jury and the Chairman of TDC2 2000, 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 2000.

TDC2 2000: The Jury

Matthew Carter

is a type designer with forty years' experience of typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. He designed the typefaces ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand, Shelley Script, Bell Centennial (for the US telephone directories), ITC Charter, Mantinia, Sophia, Big Caslon, Miller, Miller News (for newspaper text), and types commissioned by Apple, Microsoft (the screen fonts Verdana and Georgia), Time magazine, Newsweek, Wired, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Walker Art Center. He is a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designers and makers of original typefaces.

Barry Deck

is a graphic designer for whom typefaces created by experts were simply not distinctive enough. In an arrogant attempt to control every aspect of his work, he began to design his own. The resulting aesthetic of ineptitude was gobbled up by the design world and now everybody says he's a type designer. His typefaces include Arbitrary, Barry Sans Serif, Canicopulis, Caustic Biomorph, Cyberotica, Eunuverse, Faux CRA, Orgasm Heavy, Repressed, Template Gothic, Traitor, Truth, Washout Light, and typefaces commissioned by MTV Networks, Conde Nast Publishing, MCI Communications, and Ray Gun magazine. After an unsuccessful, ten-year-long search for a full time job, he has opened his New York studio this fall.

John Hudson

is a full-time professional type designer, and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks in Vancouver, Canada. He specializes in providing custom font solutions to design firms, software developers, and information technologists, and is regularly consulted as an expert on multilingual typography. His clients to date include Microsoft, Linotype Library, Agfa, and many smaller companies. John received an award of excellence in the Kyrillitsa '99 competition, for his typeface Sylfaen Cyrillic (commissioned by Microsoft Corp.), and special recognition from the Moscow Golden Bee Association for his "outstanding contribution to the development of Cyrillic typography and international typographic communications."

Writer/designer Kathleen Tinkel

first set type on a pre-WWII VariTyper machine while in high school in Anchorage, Alaska. She established Tinkel Design in 1968 and has spent most of the intervening years as a graphic designer. She studied type and typography by spec'ing it, moonlighting on cold-typesetting systems in the 1970s, occasionally setting foundry type for a small letterpress, and, for the past ten years, writing about design and typography. Her articles have appeared in U&lc, Aldus and Adobe magazines, Step-by-Step magazine and Electronic Design newsletter, x-Height, MacWeek, MacWorld, MacUser, and others.

TDC2 chairman Maxim Zhukov

is the Typographic Coordinator for the United Nations, and has a broad background in typographic communications. His main occupation is multilingual typography. Maxim is one of the leading experts in Cyrillic type design in America. Half of his professional life he spent in the USSR, designing art and science books, and other print. For a few years he taught typographic design at his alma mater, Moscow Printing Institute. Maxim writes on typography and type design. He is a member of ATypI, and a country delegate for Russia.