2021 The TDC 67th Annual Competition

報名時間： 即日起 ~ 2021-02-05

主辦單位Email：tdc@oneclub.org、accounting@oneclub.org

紐約時間 2020 年，10 月 14 日， The One Club for Creativity 正式宣佈與全球領先的字體藝術指導俱樂部 Type Directors Club 達成合併協議。此舉將 Type Directors Club （ TDC ）納入 The One Club for Creativity ( TOCC ) 旗下，The One Club for Creativity作為全球創意行業非營利機構，將為 TDC 提供資源以及基礎設施來幫助 TDC 擴大和發展其計畫，並同時將促進多樣化和包容性以及融入全球字體藝術社區作為新的重點。

Type Directors Club ( TDC ) 於 1946 年在紐約成立，作為一個由 “文化驅動設計，設計驅動文化” 這一共同理念團結在一起的全球社區，其宗旨是推動和擴大字體、字形藝術在印刷、廣告、屏幕和出版的應用創新與影響力，同時也關注藝術指導者的品味以及視覺設計藝術主張。

此舉是繼 The One Club 和 Art Directors Club（ ADC ）在 2016 年合併之後的又一重磅合併成果，作為 The One Club for Creativity 的一部分，TDC 將繼續運營其備受讚譽的各類獎項以及比賽，並通過一系列活動繼續履行其在字體設計藝術領域的使命。The One Club for Creativity 也將繼續秉持非盈利組織的初心繼續創意火焰的傳承。

The One Club 的首席執行官 Kevin Swanepoel 表示：“ TDC 是一家具有悠久歷史的重要創意組織，為 TOCC和整個全球創意界帶來了嶄新的面貌，此次合併標誌著TDC 開啟了新的篇章。The One Club 的包容性，多樣性，性別平等，職業發展和教育計畫這些特質，可以幫助 TDC 重新定義組織的主旨。我們很高興現在成為這些享有聲望的獎項競賽的一部分，並將盡我們所能來擴大和提高它們在全球創意界的知名度。”

與此同時, Type Directors Club ( TDC ) 也正式開始本屆TDC67 Communication Design 和 24TDC Typeface Design 兩個獎項的作品徵集，這也是繼 TDC 加入 The One Club for Creativity 之後在今年舉辦的首屆比賽。今年的徵稿主題，由 TDC67 的評審主席 Juan Carlos Pagan 所在的公司 Sunday Afternoon 設計。

這兩個比賽是享譽世界以及知名度最廣的字體設計和版式比賽，歡迎所有來自廣告代理公司，設計工作室的設計人，以及學習字體設計以及版式的學生加入本屆大賽。同時，兩個比賽都分別設有專業類別和學生類別，面向全球 60 多個國家以及地區全面徵稿。

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同時，TDC 公佈了本屆大賽的評審名單，他們將以國際化的標準來甄選最有創意的設計作品。

TDC67 COMMUNICATION DESIGN 評審名單

評審主席：Juan Carlos Pagan, Founding Partner / ECD, Sunday Afternoon, New York
Melissa Deckert, Co-Founder, Party of One Studio, Brooklyn
Jason Ramirez, Designer / Art Director, Penguin Publishing Group, New York
Jason Sfetko, Senior Designer, Nike, Portland
Leandro Assis, Artist / Art Director, Lebassis, Rio de Janeiro
Joyce N. Ho, Motion Designer, New York
Leland Maschmeyer, CCO, Chobani, New York
Marta Cerda Alimbau, Designer / Typographer, Barcelona

24TDC TYPEFACE DESIGN 評審名單

評審主席：Ksenya Samarsakya, Strategic Consultant / CD, Samarskaya & Partners, Lisbon
Peter Bil’ak, Co-Founder, Typotheque, The Hague
Ryoko Nishizuka, Principal Designer of Japanese typography, Adobe, Tokyo
Noel Leu, Co-Founder, Grilli Type, Lucerne
Agyei Archer, Designer / Art Director, Agyei Design, Woodbrook, Trinidad & Tobago
Nadine Chahine, Principal, ArabicType Ltd., London
Sandra Garcia, Co-Founder / Designer / Art Director, Tipas Type, Mexico City

關鍵日期

早鳥作品提交截止日期：2021 年 1 月 8 日

作品提交最終截止日期：2021 年 2 月 5 日

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TDC67, the Type Directors Club 67th annual international competition, recognizes typographic excellence and innovation, while maintaining its ongoing commitment to the art and craft of typography and design. This commitment continues with 24TDC , the 24th TDC Typeface Design Competition, which recognizes the most relevant in new typeface designs.

Please Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are not accepting any physical submissions this year. All submissions will be digital.

JUDGING PROCESS

There is no winning tier structure of gold, silver and bronze – all the best work is awarded a Certificate of Typographic Excellence.
Each specialized jury has been selected and composed of the top creatives and designers from across the world to judge all submitted entries.
During the judging process, the jury will base their decision on usage of the letterform and in typeface design, the best letterform design.

IMPORTANT INFO

DEADLINES

Regular Deadline
January 8

Extended Deadline
February 5 ( Late Fees Apply )

ELIGIBILITY & RULES

TDC67, the Type Directors Club 67th annual international competition, recognizes typographic excellence and innovation, while maintaining its ongoing commitment to the art and craft of typography and design. This commitment continues with 24thTDC , the 24th TDC Typeface Design Competition, which recognizes the most relevant in new typeface designs.

SUBMISSIONS

Please Note: We will not be accepting any Physical Submissions this year due to COVID-19. All entries must be submitted digitally.

JUDGING PROCESS

There is no winning tier structure of gold, silver and bronze – all the best work is awarded a Certificate of Typographic Excellence.
Each specialized jury has been selected and composed of the top creatives and designers from across the world to judge all submitted entries.
The specialist jury, selected together with the One Club for Creativity and composed of the top creatives from across the world, will judge all submitted entries according to the Type Directors Club Awards criteria.
During the judging process, the jury will base their decision on three criteria, reviewing if the entry is:
- an original and inspiring idea
- well-executed
- relevant to its context
In the categories relating to craft, work is judged first on the strength of the craft, then on how it contributes to the success of the idea.

ELIGIBILITY

Entries must have been produced or published during 2020.
Submissions can be from anyone associated with the entry.
Work designed for the TDC and by the Chair and Judges is ineligible.
No identification of designer/submitter should be included in submission materials.

24ANNUAL TDC TYPEFACE DESIGN COMPETITION

Eligible Entries

Any new typeface designs produced or published between January 1 and December 31, 2020 are eligible. Typeface designs may be submitted by anyone involved in their design, production, or marketing. Typefaces created for the TDC, by the chair or jurors of the competition are not eligible for entering.

→ THE NAME OF THE DESIGNER AND TYPEFACE MUST NOT APPEAR IN THE SUBMISSION ( PDF ).

Ineligible Entries

Extended or revised versions of older, previously published type designs are not eligible. This includes upgraded typefaces with newly expanded glyph sets in the original script ( e.g., with added Latin glyph subsets, design variants, small capitals, ligatures, swashes, alternates, numerical styles, expert, localized and historical forms, stylistic sets, ornaments ). However, designs that have authorized additions of scripts other than the original ( e.g., from Latin to Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Thai, Han/Kanji, etc. ) are eligible.

Designs published before January 1, 2020 are not eligible.

Entry Formats

Entries are to be submitted as PDFs or digital images. Please ensure high enough resolution to judge your work appropriately. Each entry may include up to a maximum of 12 proof pages. Proofs may include, but are not limited to, headlines, short or long passages of text, sample pages or double-page spreads of book or magazine make-up, or multi-column text. Proofs should demonstrate how the typeface was designed to be used. The requirements for proofs are:

Non-identification

To ensure anonymous and fair judgement of entries, the names of the typeface, designer, client, manufacturer or distributor must not appear anywhere on the front or on the back of the proof.

Character Showings

Proofs should show as complete a character set as possible given the size of the design’s glyph complement and the number of styles in the submission. In the case of complex extended multi-script character sets, ensure that the showing is comprehensive enough to allow the jury to judge the design appropriately.

Complex System Showings

Submissions of text and display Type Superfamilies should follow the above guidelines, but may feature more than one font or style in each showing.

Marking of Entries

Entries must be clearly marked, in the front, upper left-hand corner of each sheet, with the appropriate Family, Competition, Script, and Design categorizations as detailed in the Categories section.

Marking examples:
Single, Display, Latin, Original
Type Family, Text, Latin, Original
Type Superfamily, Type System, Custom system for a major news corporation
Single, Display, Armenian, Authorized extension of a Latin design

PDF Uploads

Entries submitted by PDF upload must be pre-formatted as US Tabloid ( portrait or landscape; 11×17 in. / 279×430 mm ). Either vertical or horizontal formats are permitted.

Each entry PDF with more than one page must be a multiple-page PDF.

Security settings must be set to allow full resolution viewingwithout passwords.

PDF entries must use embedded subsetted settings for fonts, to ensure that outlines, not bitmaps, are printed.

Non-embeddable fonts must not be converted to outlines; please generate embeddable versions for this competition PDF.

Entry Categories

Single Typeface: Individual typefaces designed to stand alone, with no stylistic variants.

Type Family: Typefaces designed and entered for competition with stylistic variants such as roman, italic, and bold, or small capitals. Up to and including eight variants are allowed.

Type Superfamily: Typeface designs that comprise more than eight closely-related variants are considered Type Superfamilies. Superfamilies also include Pi and Dingbat fonts that are stylistically related to the main alphabetic or ideographic typeface designs, as well as variable fonts.

Type System: Extensive groups of related typefaces featuring separate designs for text and display composition, or groups of related typefaces featuring designs belonging to different style categories, such as serif and sans-serif, serif and slab serif, and serif and semi-serif. Digital fonts in Multiple Master or in OpenType format often fall within this subcategory.

Pi or Ornament: Typefaces featuring special character sets for mathematical, phonetic, and other specialized applications, as well as ding-bats, icons, symbols, and other pictorial items in a font format. Ornament and border designs are also included in this subcategory.

Student CategoryTypeface Design–Typeface Design is not part of TDC Communication Design and is a separate competition which is judged by a Typeface Design Competition jury. This MUST be a Student assignment to qualify.

NO ENTRIES WILL BE RETURNED

THE TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB IS NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THE ENTRIES DO NOT REACH THE TDC OFFICE IN TIME FOR THE JUDGING. NO ENTRY FEES WILL BE RETURNED. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THE FREIGHT/POSTAL SERVICE YOU USE WILL DELIVER THE ENTRIES TO THE TDC OFFICE IN TIME FOR JUDGING.

Awards

Only winners will be notified the week of February 22, 2021 by email.

Certificates

Entries selected by the jury will receive Certificates of Typographic Excellence. They will be exhibited in the 67th TDC Exhibition and appear in The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 42. The opening of TDC67 will be held in New York City and will be on display during the summer of 2021. Winners will be asked to supply digital files of the winning entries for use in The World’s Best Typography®.

Travel Exhibition Material

Winners will also be asked to supply eight ( 8 ) additional copies of winning entries for use in exhibitions outside New York. These shows travel throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asian countries. Credits of individuals and firms that have contributed to each entry will be included in the exhibitions and in The World’s Best Typography®.

Credits will be requested for selected pieces.

IN THE EVENT OF ANY DISPUTE REGARDING THE ELIGIBILITY OF THE ENTRY’S QUALIFICATIONS, THE CHAIRPERSON’S DECISION IS FINAL.

Entry is declared to be a 2020 production.

I hereby grant the TDC permission to show the work( s ) in exhibitions, on the TDC website, and to publish it/them in the TDC annual and other publications. I also allow the TDC to use images of work( s ) in all forms of publicity for the competition and exhibitions.

I hereby affirm that the materials I submit to the competition( s ) and their publications will not infringe upon any personal, property or intellectual rights ( i.e., copyright, trademark, and patent ) of others and that I have full power to enter into this agreement and that all information is accurate and hold the TDC harmless from any action resulting from this entry material and information.