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NEW YORK, November 20, 2025 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today announced the creative leaders from around the world selected to serve on the three juries for the prestigious TDC72 competition.
The program is a single competition under the TDC Awards umbrella, consisting of three disciplines: Communication Design, Lettering, and Type Design.
Confirmed judges for each discipline are as follows:
Communications Design
Jury President: Lisa Smith, Global Chief Design Officer, Uncommon Creative Studio, New York
- Mike Abbink, Executive Director of Design, Foundations, Human Interface Design, General Motors, Austin
- Rapha Abreu, Global Vice President, Design, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta
- Parasto Backman, Founder/Creative Director, Studio Parasto Backman, Stockholm
- Alex Center, Founder, Creative Director, CENTER, Brooklyn
- Tom Crabtree, Executive Creative Director, Manual, San Francisco
- Verònica Fuerte, Founder & Creative Directress, Hey Studio, Barcelona
- Cat How, Founder, CEO and ECD, How&How Branding Agency, Santa Monica
- Margot Lévêque, Creative Director, Type Designer, Founder, ML Studio, New York
- Fabiola Mejía, Type Designer and Founder, SUPERCONTINENTE, Costa Rica
- Jeremy Mickel, Founder, MCKL Type Foundry and Design Studio, Los Angeles
- Chris Nott, Co-Founder and Type Director, Studio DRAMA, London
- Max Ottignon, Co-Founder, Ragged Edge, London
- Stuart Radford, Executive Creative Director, Jones Knowles Ritchie, London
- Johanna Roca, Creative Director, Koto, Los Angeles
- Felipe Rocha, Founder, Executive Creative Director, Porto Rocha, Brooklyn
Lettering
Jury President: Mary Kate McDevitt, illustrator, hand-letterer, and designer, Philadelphia
- Scott Biersack, Freelance Designer & Illustrator, Phoenix
- Ken Barber, Lettering Artist, Type Designer, Author, Teacher, House Industries, Philadelphia
- Martina Flor, Lettering Designer, Author & Educator, Studio Martina Flor, Berlin
- Amy Hood, Co-founder & Creative Director, Hoodzpah, Anaheim
- Kyle Letendre, Lettering Artist, Type Designer & Illustrator, Portland
- Shauna Lynn, Lettering Artist & Illustrator, Studio.Pancz, Chicago/Milwaukee
- Victor Meléndez, Art Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Seattle, WA
- Joanna Muñoz, Artist, Wink & Wonder, Los Angeles
- Jen Mussari, Commercial Artist, Jen Mussari, Brooklyn
- Whitney Nettles, Graphic Designer, Independent, Milwaukee
- Ndubisi Okoye, Founder, Ndubisi Okoye llc, Detroit
- Andrea Pippins, illustrator, Stockholm
- Jeff Rogers, Graphic Designer, Artist, Howdy Jeff, Dallas
- Brett Stenson, Senior Art Director, Young Jerks, Portland
- Simon Walker, Lettering Artist, Simon Letters, Chicago
Type Design
Jury President: Aleksandra Samuļenkova, type designer, Haarlem
- Abraham Abebe, Associate Professor of Art–Graphic Design, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville
- Lara Captan, Foundress, Ama Foundry, Amsterdam
- Namrata Goyal, Type Designer, Universal Thirst, Bangalore
- Sol Matas, Type Expert & Educator, Practica Program, Berlin
- Teressa Hsiao Chun Mou, Type Director, Arphic Types, Taipei
- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, linguist, font engineer, type designer, Parangonage, Luxembourg
- Shoko Mugikura, Managing Director, Just Another Foundry GmbH, Garching
- Eunyou Noh, Type Design Director, Sandoll; Founder, NohType, Seoul
- Krista Radoeva, Type Designer, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Matthijs Sluiter, Designer, Writer, Editor, Studio Het Mes/Fonts In Use/Fontstand News/Typo.social, The Hague
- Mint Tantisuwanna, Type Designer, Typotheque, The Hague
- Irene Viachou, owner, Irene Vlachou Type, Syros
Across the three juries, the competition will have native experts spanning a range of writing systems including Arabic, Cyrillic, Indic, CJK, and Thai, reflecting TDC’s commitment to have a greater number of the most appropriate experts judging work for which they have a deep knowledge.
About TDC72
Digital and physical entries are now being accepted via the TDC72 entry website. The regular deadline is January 23, 2026, with entry fees increasing for the final deadline on February 27, 2026.
The TDC competition regularly receives entries from more than 60 countries. To make TDC72 as accessible as possible on a global level, the organization offers significant regional discounts on entry fees.
For the first time in its nearly 80-year history, TDC will present physical Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards starting this year.
The new Type-High award, designed and named by longtime TDC collaborator, life member, and organization Chairman Emeritus Graham Clifford, can now be displayed on desks and bookshelves, representing achievement of creative excellence and serving as a constant visual inspiration for typographers, type designers, and lettering artists.
In addition to receiving Type-High awards or Merit certificates, winners get a digital seal certifying their work is among the world’s best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, The World’s Best Typography®, and showcased in a number of exhibitions that travel to museums, schools, and design organizations around the world.
TDC72 Best of Show, Best of Discipline, and Judges’ Choice winners will be awarded in May 2026 during Creative Week in New York.
TDC72 winners are also part of The One Club’s prestigious Global Creative Rankings, earning points alongside winners in The One Show, ADC Annual Awards, Art Director Club of Europe (ADCE), and ONE Asia Creative Awards, to chart the world’s leading independent creatives, design firms, ad agencies, production companies, and brands.
Please visit the TDC72 entry site for more information and to enter this year’s competition.