It’s that time of year, and this year it’s easier than ever to send
an entry to the Type Directors Club Type Design Competition (TDC2).

Along with having a stellar jury — Lance Hidy, Larry Oppenberg,
Sara Soskolne, Gerard Unger, with Matthew Carter as Chair, this year
TDC has inaugurated a system of PDF uploads for type design samples.

Designers or submitters may either send printed samples by mail or
send 11x17 US Tabloid formatted PDFs via secure server uploads. PDF
entries will be printed out by the TDC prior to the judging.
The server can be also used to register entries and print labels for
mailed or shipped entries.

Full Call guidelines and procedures for the TDC2 2008 Type Design
Competition are at:
http://www.tdc.org/calls/tdc22008/index.html

As well, the online registration facility is available to entrants to
TDC54 Typography, the TDC’s annual competition for excellence in
typography, though the upload function is not available. The TDC54
Call guidelines and procedures are at:
http://www.tdc.org/calls/tdc542008/index.html

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.

Deadlines for the competitions are
TDC2 2008 :: Friday 14 December 2007
TDC54 :: Friday 4 January 2008