Type Directors Club

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Type Directors Club2026 Scholarship Winners Announced PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, November 5, 2026 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has announced this year’s winners for its three annual global student scholarship…

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Type Directors ClubTDC Names Six New Advisory Board Members PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, October 29, 2026 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced six top creatives who will join its esteemed Advisory Board. Established…

10.28

Type Directors ClubGlobal TDC73 Competition Kicks Off PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, October 21, 2026 — The Type Directors Club launches its prestigious global TDC73 competition, supported this year by the energetic “Be Bold, Be Seen (All…

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Type Directors ClubTDC72 Type-High and Certificate Winners Announced PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, July 20, 2026 — The global Type Directors Club announced its first-ever Type-High awards winners in its prestigious TDC72 competition, unveiled at a special awards…

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Type Directors ClubTDC72 Finalists from 40 Countries Announced PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, April 28, 2026 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has announced 161 finalists from 40 countries for its prestigious TDC72 competition.…

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Type Directors ClubGlobal TDC72 Jury Members Talk Type Trends and Judging NEW YORK, February 25, 2026 — As the Type Directors Club's prestigious TDC72 competition approaches its final submission deadline of February 27, creative leaders from around the world serving…

02.25

Type Directors ClubType Drives Commerce Full Lineup Announced on PRINT Magazine Check it out on PRINT Magazine!

02.23

Type Directors ClubTDC Opens 2026 Call For Three Global Scholarship Programs PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, February 12, 2026 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has opened the call for applications for its three global student scholarship…

02.12

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Type Directors ClubMovement Matters: Variable Fonts’ New Tonal Expressions When Type Directors Club asked me to share type design projects I admire, I assumed that focusing on my immediate surroundings would make the task less intimidating.

02.12

Type Directors Club2025 Adé Hogue, Beatrice Warde, and TDC Scholarships Announced PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, December 11, 2025 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has announced this year’s winners for its annual global student scholarship programs.

2025.12.11

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. More than eighty sources come in through the day, twenty of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo