TDC Typeface Design Winners 2014
The jury selected 24 entries from nearly 200 typefaces submitted from 29 countries. These winners have been included in the Annual of the Type Directors Club, Typography 35 and in seven exhibitions touring cities in the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Spain, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.
The Jury
- Andy Clymer, Hoefler & Co.
- Jesse Ragan, Type@Cooper
- Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt
- Georg Seifert, Glyphs App
Matteo Bologna, Competition Chair
The Winners
Sori
- Designer: Sebastian Moser, Stuttgart, Germany
- Additional Credits: School of Design of Pforzheim University, Professor Michael Throm and Sebastian Hackelsperger • Programmer: Alexis Luengas • Consultant: Young-Hun Jung
Metro Nova
- Designer: Toshi Omagari, London
- Foundry: Linotype Originals
- Purchase: Linotype
Odesta
- Designer: Ondrej Job, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Foundry: Urtd
- Purchase: Village
Azer
- Designer: Wael Morcos, Ian Party and Pascal Zoghbi, New York, Switzerland, and Beirut
- Foundry: 29Letters
- Language: Arabic
Pizza Press
- Designer: Terrance Weinzierl
- Foundry: Monotype
- Client: Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Columbia Titling
- Designer: Gregory Shutters, New York
- Foundry: Typetanic Fonts
- Purchase: MyFonts
Amplify
- Designer: Henrik Kubel, London
- Foundry: A2-Type, London
- Client: Amplify/News Corporation
- Additional Credits: Creative Director: Graham Clifford, New York
Chimera
- Designer: Maria Doreuli, Moscow
- Additional Credits: School: Type and Media, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL) • Professors: Erik van Blokland, Paul van der Laan and Peter Verheul
Mislab
- Designer: Xavier Dupré, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Foundry: Typofonderie
- Purchase: Typofonderie
Duplicate Ionic
- Designer: Miguel Reyes and Christian Schwartz, New York
- Foundry: Commerical Type
- Purchase: Commercial Type
FF Quixo
- Designer: Frank Griesshammer, Santa Clara, California
- Foundry: FontShop
- Purchase: FontFont
Argentina
- Designer: Dario M. Muhafara, Buenos Aires
- Foundry: tipo type foundry
- Client: FutureBrands
Ogg
- Designer: Lucas Sharp, Brooklyn, New York
- Foundry: Pagan & Sharp
- Purchase: Village
Lalola
- Designer: Laura Meseguer, Barcelona
- Foundry: Type-Ø-Tones
- Purchase: Type-Ø-Tones
DecoType Nastaleeq Press
- Designer: Mirjam Somers, Amsterdam
- Foundry: DecoType
- Language: Arabic
Venecia
- Designer: Baruch Gorkin, Brooklyn, New York
- Foundry: bgHEB
- Language: Hebrew
Medusa
- Designer: Ramiro Espinoza, The Hague
- Foundry: Retype
- Purchase: www.re-type.com
Flirt Script
- Designer: Neil Summerour, Jefferson, Georgia
- Foundry: Positype
- Purchase: MyFonts
MZhiHei Ultra Bold
- Designer: Kenneth Kwok, Hong Kong
- Foundry: Monotype
- Language: Chinese
- Purchase: Fonts.com
Cloud Mountin Type
- Designer: John Meng, Beijing
- Foundry: Meng Shenhui Graphic Design Studio
FREE
- Designer: Matt Kay, Jennifer Kinon and Bobby C. Martin Jr., New York
- Foundry: OCD | The Original Champions of Design
- Purchase: The Original Champions of Design
Bungee
- Designer: David Jonathan Ross, Los Angeles
- Foundry: Font Bureau
Marcel Script
- Designer: Carolyn Porter, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Foundry: P22 Type Foundry
- Purchase: P22
Chapitre Regular
- Designer: Jonathan Perez, Angoulême, France
- Foundry: typographies.fr
- Purchase: FontShop
