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Meet the Judges of TDC58, the Type Directors Club Communication Design Competition.

The Type Directors Club annual competition is recognized worldwide as the premier typographic design competition. This is due, in part, to the esteemed judges that participate each year. This year is no different. It’s with pride and gratitude that we announce this year’s list of judges.

Enter your work by January 11 for a chance to appear in TYPOGRAPHY 33, the Annual of the Type Directors Club and be part of our 7 global traveling exhibitions.

Frank Chimero (frankchimero.com)
Frank Chimero is a designer, illustrator, educator, and author who makes pictures about words and words about pictures. He has been recognized by Print Magazine as a New Visual Artist, and by the Art Director’s Club as a Young Gun. His work focuses on storytelling, wit, the creative process and visual experience, working for such clients as The New York Times, Nike, Wired, Microsoft, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Starbucks, and many others. He doesn’t know where he’s going, but he’s on his way.

Ray Fenwick (rayfenwick.ca)
Ray Fenwick is an artist, author and illustrator living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

He has created lettering, illustration and repeat patterns for The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Nike, O Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Chronicle Books and many others. He has spoken about his work at universities and conferences in both Canada and the United States.

As an author he drew and wrote perhaps the first “typographic comic”, Hall of Best Knowledge. The book made several “Best Graphic Novel” lists and earned a nomination for “Best Avant-Garde Graphic Novel” from The Canadian Cartooning Awards. His most recent book, Mascots, was published January 2011.

Louise Fili (louisefili.com)
Louise Fili Ltd, founded in 1989, specializes in logo, package, restaurant, type, book and book jacket design. A senior designer for Herb Lubalin from 1976 to 1978, Louise Fili was art director for Pantheon Books from 1978 to 1989, where she designed over 2,000 book jackets. She has received awards from every major design competition, including Gold and Silver medals from The Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Directors Club, the Premio Grafico from the Bologna Book Fair, and three James Beard award nominations. Fili has taught and lectured on graphic design and typography, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale. She was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Design grant to study the work of W.A. Dwiggins, and is co-author, with Steven Heller, of Italian Art Deco, Dutch Moderne, Streamline, French Modern, British Modern, Deco Type, German Modern, Design Connoisseur, Deco Espana, Typology and Euro Deco. Fili was recently inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame.

Jason Santa Maria (jasonsantamaria.com)
Jason Santa Maria is the founder and principal of the design studio Mighty, creative director for Typekit, a faculty member in the MFA Interaction Design program at SVA, co-founder of A Book Apart, former vice president of AIGA/NY, founder of Typedia, a shared encyclopedia of typefaces online, and creative director for A List Apart, a magazine for people who make websites. He has worked for clients such as AIGA, The Chicago Tribune, Housing Works, Miramax Films, The New York Stock Exchange, PBS, The United Nations, and WordPress focusing on designing websites that maintain a balance of beauty and usability.

Jason Schulte (visitoffice.com)
Jason founded Office in 2003 to infuse the art and detailed craft of design with the strategy and broader storytelling of advertising. Since then, he’s led differentiated solutions for some of the world’s most iconic companies, including Coca-Cola, Target, Disney, eBay, Carlsberg, and Google. Office’s work has been recognized by nearly every major graphic design competition and publication, and has appeared in several books and museum exhibitions.

Jason has been a speaker and judge for global design organizations, and a Directed Study Advisor at the San Francisco Academy of Art University. He grew up in Green Mountain, Iowa (where there’s no actual mountain), and today lives in the foggy part of San Francisco with his wife (and Office President) Jill Robertson, their twin boys, and dog Elvis.

Kevin Smith (and-smith.com)
Kevin Smith is a designer, typographer, teacher and owner of And Smith
Studio LLC, a design consultancy in Westchester, New York.

Prior to starting And Smith, Kevin ran New York City based, Giampietro+Smith with fellow founder Rob Giampietro for six years. Rob and Kevin met working together at Winterhouse, an award-winning design
studio owned by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel in Connecticut.

Kevin has also worked for Tsang Seymour Design in New York City, where his projects included work for Rizzoli Publishing, Acquevella Galleries, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During his time at
Winterhouse Kevin’s projects ranged from publishing and editorial development to new media, including work for the Yale Law School, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the White House.

Print Magazine selected Kevin as one of 2007’s “New Visual Artists: 20 Talents Under 30.” Kevin teaches communication design at Parsons School of Design.

The work of Giampietro+Smith won numerous awards including design distinctions from I.D. Magazine, Art Directors Club, Print Magazine, the Type Director’s Club, and AIGA.

And Smith’s current projects include; redesigning Frommers Travel Guides, signage for New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection, an Andy Warhol book and a new social networking website
for The New England Journal of Medicine.

Eric Janssen Strohl (strohlsf.com)
Eric Janssen Strohl is a San Francisco based designer who specializes in trademark, logo and typographic design. With prior experience working with Eric Baker Design in New York City, he has created prominent marks for an eclectic collection of individuals, companies and organizations. In recent years, while at international design firm IDEO, he traveled the world working on large scale innovation projects for some of the most recognized names in business. His work has been featured in the Type Directors Club, Print, How, Step, Communication Arts as well as other publications. In 2007 he was named one of Print Magazine’s top 20 designers under 30.