The Type Directors Club, New York
Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2000
This is the Type Directors Club's third annual type design competition, and the last one in this millennium. This competition must sum up the creative work in type design during 1999. The type palette of the 1990s seems to reflect all the trends, twists, and turns of 20th-century typographic history--from Art Nouveau and Art Deco, the Avant Garde of the 1920s and the English Typographic Revival, the jackboot gothics of the Third Reich and the neo-grotesques of Swiss modernism, to the postmodern and grunge fonts. Recent developments in technology have contributed to inclusion of non-Latin scripts in the work plans of many type designers. The realm of typography continues to expand as the technological revolution becomes entrenched. New York City is both an appropriate and challenging site for this competition, as it is the crossroads of world cultures, the runway of the latest trends in art and fashion, and the launchpad of new technologies. Join us in paying tribute to the outgoing century of extraordinary developments in type design, and in saluting the next era in human history and typographic communications.
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