Publisher's Synopsis
For the past forty-eight years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 23 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field for the year 2001. Selected from approximately 2500 international submissions to the forty-eighth Type Directors Club competition, the 158 winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design. This year's selection encompasses a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationary, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters. Additionally, this year's volume features the results of the Club's fourth annual typeface design competition, TDC2 2002 which produced 17 winners out of 119 international entries. In both competitions each winning entry is displayed in full-colour and is accompanied by complete information about designer, client, typography and more. This edition also includes a special index listing the principal typefaces used and the names of their designers.;The Judges' Choice sections feature the winning entries that have been singled out as his or her personal favourite; these pieces are accompanied not only by the judges' comments, but also the statements from the designers of the works and the creative process involved in developing it. These components - along with this year's Chairpersons' Statements by Klaus Schmidt and Gary Munch exemplify the enormous vitality of the typography profession today.
