TDC Typeface Design Winners 2018
The jury selected eighteen typeface design winners were selected from over 225 entries from 39 countries. These typeface winners are included in the World’s Best Typography, the Annual of the Type Directors Club, Typography 39, and showcased in 8 exhibitions that are touring cities in the United States, Belgium, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam.
The Jury
- Sahar Afshar
- Verena Gerlach
- YuJune Park
- Dyana Weissman
Elizabeth Carey Smith, Competition Chair
The Winners
Read Greek Condensed
- Designer: Elliott Amblard and Théo Guillard, Paris
- Foundry: Black[Foundry]
- Client: Groupe Renault
- Website: https://black-foundry.com
- Additional Credits: TYPEFACE DESIGN DIRECTION - Jérémie Hornus
Greta Text Hebrew
- Designer: Hebrew by Michal Sahar, Tel Aviv - Latin by Peter Bilak, The Hague
- Foundry: Typotheque
Kinetic
- Designer: Noel Pretorius and María Ramos, Stockholm and Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Foundry: NM type
- Website: http://www.kinetictypeface.com
Oi!
- Designer: Kostas Bartsokas, Reading, UK
- Website: https://kostasbartsokas.com/oi-you-mate/
Guyot
- Designer: Ramiro Espinoza, The Hague
- Foundry: Retype Foundry
- Website: http://www.re-type.com
Artigo Display
- Designer: Joana Maria Correia da Silva, Porto, Portugal
- Foundry: Nova Type Foundry
- Website: http://www.novatypefoundry.com
Ray
- Designer: Reza Bakhtiarifard and Omid Emamian, Tehran
- Website: http://twitter.com/rbakhtiarifard
Vazeh
- Designer: Reza Bakhtiarifard and Omid Emamian, Tehran
- Client: Ofogh Rooydad
- Website: http://twitter.com/rbakhtiarifard
Koning
- Designer: Luc(as) de Groot, Martina Flor, Jan Fromm, Phillipp Neumeyer, Daria Petrova, Berlin
- Foundry: LucasFonts
- Website: http://www.lucasfonts.com
Mirza
- Designer: Amir Mahdi Moslehi, Tehran, Iran
- Foundry: Bagh-e Tafarroj Studio
- Client: Maryam Soft
- Website: https://twitter.com/AMMoslehi
Harrison Serif Pro
- Designer: Lisa Fischbach, Hamburg
- Foundry: TypeMates
- Website: http://www.typemates.com
- Additional Credits: LEAD DESIGN - Jakob Runge, Munich, FONT PRODUCTION - Christoph Koeberlin, Berlin
Pelago Cyrillic
- Designer: Robert Slimbach, San Jose, California
- Foundry: Adobe Systems
- Website: https://typekit.com/foundries/adobe
Teddy
- Designer: Minjoo Ham, Berlin
- Foundry: Fust & Friends, foundry and typographic hothouse (Berlin, Germany)
- Website: http://www.fustandfriends.com
- Additional Credits: TYPE DIRECTION - Jan Middendorp, TYPE ADVICE - Florian Hardwig and Dan Reynolds
Origen
- Designer: Alex Camacho, London
- Foundry: Alex Camacho Studio
- Website: http://www.alexcamachostudio.com
Noort
- Designer: Juan Bruce, Paine, Región Metropolitana, Chile
- Foundry: TypeTogether
- Website: https://www.type-together.com
Source Han Serif
- Designer: Ryoko Nishizuka (principle designer; kana & ideographs), Frank Grießhammer (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Soohyun Park, Yejin We & Donghoon Han (hangul elements, letters & syllables)
- Client: Adobe Systems, Inc. and Google, San Jose, California
- Website: https://typekit.com/foundries/adobe
IBM Plex
- Designer: Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, and Pieter van Rosmalen
- Client: IBM
- Website: https://www.ibm.com/plex/
- Additional Credits: CREATIVE DIRECTION - Mike Abbink, TYPE DIRECTION - Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen, DESIGN AGENCY - IBM Brand Experience & Design and Bold Monday
Lamon
- Designer: Dmitry Lamonov, Moscow
- Foundry: Art.Lebedev Studio
- Website: http://artlebedev.com
- Additional Credits: ART DIRECTION - Artemy Lebedev, PROJECT MANAGER - Svetlana Kost
