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Tokyo Type Directors Club TDC 2020
Created in 1987 along the model of the New York Type Directors Club, and led by Katsumi Asaba, the Tokyo Type Directors Club organizes an annual type competition. The winners of the Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2020: - Grand Prize: Michael Amzalag + Mathias Augustyniak, M/M(Paris), for Galeries Lafayette Champs-Elysées.
- RGB Prize: Karen Ann Donnachie + Andy Simionato.
- Type Design Prize: Pierre Pané-Farré for Affichen Schriften FSL. His Affichen Schriften FSL won the type design prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club TDC 2020. This revival collection is based on extensive research in archives and special collections the Affichen-Schriften series is a digitally reconstructed set of four distinctive display typefaces from that era:
- Doppel-Mittel Egyptienne FSL and Schmale Egyptienne No.12 FSL: Based on types issued by Eduard Haenel (Magdeburg/Berlin), who was one of the first to introduce new display type designs to the German printing trade in the 1830s.
- Antiques FSL. An early sans-serif adaption by Tarbé & Cie. (Paris) that hints at the splendor and exprimental sans-serif forms found in French poster typefaces at the time
- Breite-Fette Antiqua FSL. A wide fat face that embodies the formal developments that occurred in the German Confederation around the late 1840s.
- Book Design Prize: Jonathan Ellery + Lawrence Weiner.
- Special Prize: Tsuguya Inoue.
- Special Prize: Fumio Tachibana.
- TDC Prize: Akiem Helmling + Sami Kortemäki + Bas Jacobs, Underware. For Grammato, a contriibution in the area of animated and automated typography.
- TDC Prize: OK-RM (Oliver Knight + Rory McGrath).
- TDC Prize: Panos Vassiliou + Manos Daskalakis. For PF Marlet.
- TDC Prize: Mei Shuzhi + Lian Jie + Li Xibin.
- TDC Prize: Yui Takada.
- TDC Prize: Li Xibin + Liu Yutong.
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