For the past fifty-four years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual competitions.

Typography 29 is the TDC's newest annual volume devoted exclusively to typography; the book presents the finest work in this field from 2007. Selected from more than 2,100 international submissions to the fifty-fourth Type Directors Club competition,the 225 winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in contemporary type design. This year's selection encompasses a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and Web graphics, and posters.

For the past fifty-four years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual competitions.

Typography 29 is the TDC's newest annual volume devoted exclusively to typography; the book presents the finest work in this field from 2007. Selected from more than 2,100 international submissions to the fifty-fourth Type Directors Club competition,the 225 winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in contemporary type design. This year's selection encompasses a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and Web graphics, and posters.

In addition, this year's book features the results of the club's tenth annual type design competition, TDC2 2008. Each winning entry is displayed in full color and is accompanied by complete information about the 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 each judge's personal favorite; these pieces are accompanied not only by the judges' comments, but also by statements from the designers about the creative process involved in developing each piece. These components--along with statements from this year's chairmen,Ted S. Mauseth,Jr. and Matthew Carter--exemplify the enormous vitality of the typography profession today.

A special section contains the fourth reprinting of the earliest TDC competition catalogs. This one, from 1959, is reprod uced in its entirety here. The catalogs were introduced in 1958 when the competition was open to entrants outside the club. From 1955 to 1978, the competition catalog was produced as a relatively modest booklet. In 1979, after twenty-five years, the TDC annual became a book. That explains why the current annual is Typography 29, while this year's competition is TDC 54.