What do we do?
The TDC Archive is the place where we collect projects awarded in the TDC Annual Competition. The collection, which has been created for more than 10 years, is made available to the general public during so-called traveling exhibitions. Currently, we present the awarded projects in Warsaw, Gdansk (PJAIT), Krakow (ASP), Lublin (House of Words), Lodz (Book Museum), and Poznan (UA).
The TDC Archive also conducts educational activities to promote the TDC collection.
Why? Because we want to be ambassadors of the flagship value for the Type Directors Club - ambassadors of typographic excellence.
TDC70 Exhibitions in Poland
| Poznan | Dec 2025 (tbc) | Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznań |
| Lublin | Fall 2025 (tbc) | House of Words ul. Zmigrod 1, Lublin |
| Gdansk | 27.05 – 05.06.2025 | Gallery graphic design – Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, English House, ul. Chlebnicka 13/16 |
| Cracow | 31.01 - 9.02.2025 | ASP Gallery 18 Basztowa Street, Cracow |
| Warsaw | 06.11.–02.12.2024 | PJAIT (building A) ul. Koszykowa 86, Warsaw |
Announcements
This year the exhibition will be held for the first time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk!
Curator: Dr. Monika Marek-Łucka - curator of the TDC Archive in Poland
Coordination and implementation of the exhibition: Dr. Ada Pawlikowska
Exhibition opening:
27.05.2025 (Tuesday), 4.30 pm
Place: Gallery of graphic design - ASP in Gdansk
English House, Chlebnicka Street 13/16
Opening lecture:
"History, competition and more than 70 years of typographic excellence"
Dr. Monika Marek-Łucka
27.05.2025 (Tuesday), at 15.00, PATIO ASP, Targ Węglowy 6, Gdańsk
Free admission!
Duration: 27.05 - 05.06.2025
TDC71 Opening in NYC
The TDC71 exhibition featured 170 winning entries selected from 26 countries. Each category celebrated a
Best of Discipline winner:
Best of Lettering : Stanford d.School Yearbook 2023 – Daniel Frumhoff Design
Best of Communication Design : New York City FC Branding – Gretel with Frere-Jones Type
Best of Type Design : Naatak – Ek Type
TDC Archive Collection
The archive collection is available to students PJAIT in room C017 (level -1 in building C).
We regularly make available books awarded in the TDC Annual Competition in the Library PJAIT (Building B).
To schedule an appointment to visit the archive, please email the curator: m.marek@PJAIT.edu.pl
EVCT course
The TDC Archive collection is also used as a teaching tool in the Elements of Visual Communication Theory (EVCT) class, taught by Dr. Monika Marek-Lucka.
This is a year-long course designed for 1st year students majoring in Graphic Design & Multimedia Art. Students are tasked with a critical study of a selected design awarded in the current TDC Awards. They do diligent research, contact and interview designers, and create short films in which they confront the selected design. The result is an open database of educational materials. By integrating the TDC collection into the education system, students not only learn from the best practitioners from around the world, but also have the opportunity to practice attitudes and skills useful in their careers, i.e. proactivity, responsibility, or a high culture of communication.
Team 2024/25
curator
Arina Marchenko
student/volunteer
Valeria Leonava
student/volunteer
Aliaksandra Safronenka
student/volunteer
Uliana Zakhariieva
student/volunteer
Anna Kharchenko
student/volunteer
Veronika Wisniewska
student/volunteer
Sofiia Davydiuk
student/volunteer
Students interested in research or volunteer work, as well as institutions interested in hosting the TDC Annual Competition
post-competition exhibition at their premises, are invited to contact the TDC Archives curator by email:
