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TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2008

The TDC2 competition of January 2008 was judged by Lance Hidy, Larry Oppenberg, Sara Soskolne, Gerard Unger, and Christian Schwartz, with Matthew Carter as Chair. Winning works in TDC2 2008 Type Design and in TDC54 Typography will be exhibited in six traveling shows and published in Typography 29, The Annual of The Type Directors Club, a hardbound, all-color competition annual designed by Philippe Apeloig. The winning entries:

• Text / Type Family: Al Rajhi (Habib Khoury), Fondo (Cristóbal Henestrosa), Marat (Ludwig Übele), Palatino Arabic (Nadine Chahine, Hermann Zapf), Tiina (Valentin Brustaux), Vodafone Hindi (Fiona Ross, Tim Holloway, John Hudson).
• Type System / Superfamily: Anselm (František Štorm), Gloriola Standard and Display (Tomáš Brousil), National (Kris Sowersby).
• Display: Blaktur (Ken Barber), Burgues Script (Alejandro Paul), Fresco Arabic (Fred Smeijers, Lara Assouad Khoury), Logo Jr Black (Shigeru Katsumoto, Kyoko Katsumoto), Mommie (Hubert Jocham), Studio Lettering Sable (Ken Barber), Studio Lettering Slant (Ken Barber), Studio Lettering Swing (Ken Barber), Ventura (Dino dos Santos).
• Pi and Ornament: Restraint (Marian Bantjes, Ross Mills).
• To Come: OTS Ethiopic (Monotype Imaging), Presidencia (Gabriel Martínez Meave).

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