The Type Directors Club

TDC² 2008 Winning Entries

With images from the designers. No rankings are assigned in the TDC competitions other than Judges' Choices; listings are categorically alphabetical.

Text / Type Family

• Al Rajhi

  By Habib Khoury

• Fondo

  By Cristóbal Henestrosa

• Marat

  By Ludwig Übele

• OTS Ethiopic

  By George Ryan, Jim Wasco, Jelle Bosma, Script consultant Daniel Yacob

• Palatino Arabic

  By Nadine Chahine, Hermann Zapf

• Tiina

  By Valentin Brustaux

• Vodafone Hindi

  By Fiona Ross, Tim Holloway, John Hudson

Display

• Blaktur

  By Ken Barber

• Burgues Script

  By Alejandro Paul

• Fresco Arabic

  By Fred Smeijers, Lara Assouad Khoury

• Logo Jr Black

  By Shigeru Katsumoto, 葛本茂, Kyoko Katsumoto, 葛本京子

• Mommie

  By Hubert Jocham

• Studio Lettering Sable

  By Ken Barber

• Studio Lettering Slant

  Ken Barber

• Studio Lettering Swing

  By Ken Barber

• Ventura

  Dino dos Santos

Type System / Superfamily

• Anselm

  By František Štorm

• Gloriola Standard and Display

  By Tomáš Brousil

• National

  By Kris Sowersby

• Presidencia

  By Gabriel Martínez Meave

Pi and Ornament

• Restraint

  By Marian Bantjes, Ross Mills

TDC2 2008 Jury With their Judges Choices

Larry Oppenberg — Logo Jr Black by Shigeru Katsumoto, 葛本茂, Kyoko Katsumoto, 葛本京子

Christian Schwartz — Mommie by Hubert Jocham

Sara Soskolne — National by Kris Sowersby

Gerard Unger — Al Rajhi by Habib Khoury

Matthew Carter, Chair

Where necessary, the jury was advised about non-Latin script entries by the TDC Non-Latin Advisory Board, which was for this year comprised of:
Gayaneh Bagdasaryan
Misha Beletsky
Martin Heijdra
John Hudson
Akira Kobayashi
Gerry Leonidas
Kamal Mansour
Rathna Ramanathan
Mamoun Sakkal
Manvel Shmavonyan
Adi Stern
Vladimir Yefimov