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It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it.

Pedro Serrão — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:27:51 +0000

Time for some healthy competition time.
The challenge at hand: create a typographical poster about sports, using the phrase “It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it.” Your work will be judged by an international board of designers headed by Jean François Porchez.

The trophy at stake: VIP tickets to the 2012 London Olympic Games.

You have until the 30th of April 2012 to submit your work.
More info at www.conqueror.com/typographicgames

TDC 2008

Pedro Serrão — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:07:41 +0000

Congratulations to Dino dos Santos, for the winning entry in this year Type Directors Club, with the typeface Ventura.
See all the results here.

One Flag Design Competition

Pedro Serrão — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:00:24 +0000

Adbusters launched One Flag, inviting designers all over the world to create a flag that embodies the idea of global citizenship.

Design is at war with itself. We are taught that design is about finding solutions. But the success of these solutions is judged so narrowly – Did it ooze desire? Did it shift units? – that we find ourselves implicated in problems far greater than the ones we solve.

Adbusters is a political magazine that deals with social, media, and cultural issues.

Best 100 posters from 2006

Pedro Serrão — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:59:57 +0000

This post may be a little outdated, but I haven´t seen this page before, so I´m gonna post it, because perhaps some of you haven´t seen it also, and i think the quality is well worth it.
Here are the best 100 posters from 2006, according to [please insert name here, I don´t know german].
Here is also the link to the homepages of the winners, where you can further explore each individual participant.
Enjoy!

D&AD Awards 2007

Pedro Serrão — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:42:00 +0000

Winners now online.

TDC Winners annouced

Pedro Serrão — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:11:00 +0000

Type Directors Club 2007 Winners announced:
With images from many of the designers; others are scans of the entries. Low-density scans cannot do complete justice to the high quality of the printed material.
No rankings are assigned in the TDC competitions; listings are categorically alphabetical, of course!

Image displayed here: Fakir by Underware.

Die 100 besten schriften

Pedro Serrão — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:57:00 +0000

FontShop presents the results for the 100 Best Fonts, who brought together several top designers and typographers to determine the greatest fonts ever. Either you like it or not, Helvetica is number one.
You can download the PDF here.

Communication Arts: Open Submissions

Pedro Serrão — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:38:00 +0000

Visual Typography
You are invited to submit projects for possible inclusion in the Visual Typography feature that will appear in the May/June 2007 issue of Communication Arts.

Submission criteria
We’re looking for design projects where typography is used as the primary visual element. The work must be recent (within the last two years) and should not have been previously shown in one of our annuals or the Exhibit section. There is no cost to submit entries for consideration in the Visual Typography feature.

Submission material
Please submit the actual printed package, digital file or hard copy printout.
Please include a brief description of the project, along with contact information, including an e-mail address. If your project is selected, we will contact you for reproduction materials and complete creative credits.

Submission deadline
Submissions must be received no later than Thursday, February 1, 2007

Source: Communication Arts.

TDC2 2006 – Winning Entries

Pedro Serrão — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:25:00 +0000

It´s now online the result of the Type Directors Club 2006 Contest.
In the picture: Frutiger Next Greek by Adrian Frutiger and Eva Masoura.

Update: This is very old news, i´m sorry for posting this with such a bad timing.
If you are interested in participating in the 2007 TDC2 competition, the deadline is January 12 2007.

TDC: Now accepting entries.

Pedro Serrão — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:11:00 +0000

The annual typography and typeface design competitions are accepting entries. Final deadline is Friday, 12 January 2007, with judging in January 2007 at FIT in New York.

Winning entries in the TDC competitions will be published in Typography 28, the Annual of the Type Directors Club. Designed by Number Seventeen, the Annual is published by Collins Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, and distributed worldwide.

Winning entries will also be exhibited worldwide in the TDC traveling exhibitions, as well as at the New York opening of the TDC exhibition in the summer of 2007.

You have two options:
TDC53: Typographic Design
TDC2 2007: Typeface Design