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Young Ones TDC

TDC is officially a part of Young Ones! Enter all your typography, lettering, and type design projects in here. If you’re new to TDC, consider this an opportunity to show off how you’re able to create type and lettering or make use of others’ type and lettering. This greatly expands on the categories offered in the Typography section of Young Ones ADC. So if you’re in love with ligatures, drool over descenders, and go gaga over glyphs, Young Ones TDC is the place to be!

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Typography

YOT-01A: Typography: Branding / Identity
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

Branding and Identity can range from simple logos to full-fledged campaigns, and be for mock projects, re-brands, assignments, projects for friends or clients. If the project demonstrates the look and feel and main visual communication of a brand, it fits!

YOT-01B: Typography: Book / Editorial
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

Book and editorial projects also include booklets, pamphlets, pdfs, e-books, and digital editorial. The submission can range from a cover design or redesign, to entire books, or even parts of books such as an index, cover page, or table of contents page.

YOT-01C: Typography: Packaging
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

Packaging design can be for any product and can be mocked up or created and photographed.

YOT-01D: Typography: Posters / Moving Posters
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

The classic of communication is, as always, the poster. Enter your static posters, poster campaigns, billboards, moving or animated posters, social media posts, banners, and such in here.

YOT-01E: Typography: Motion Design
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

Motion design is for anything where movement is key. This can be film titles, music videos, animations, stickers, and more!

YOT-01F: Typography: UI / UX / Websites
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

Websites, and apps, belong in this category. This would also cover UI/UX for wearable technology, automotive, kiosks, or other screens. We look forward to seeing what you’ve made!

YOT-01G: Typography: AR / VR / AI
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

This category is for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. If your project makes use of other experimental technology, or generative code, this category can also be stretched to make it fit.

YOT-01H: Typography: Other / Experimental
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If your project doesn’t seem to fit in any of the categories above, this one welcomes absolutely everything. Fashion? Architecture? Environmental intervention? Typographic photography or performance art? Anything and everything goes.

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Type Design

YOT-02A: Type Design: Single Typeface
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If you’ve created a single-style typeface, enter it here! That style can be anything, traditional or not, and supporting any written script.

YOT-02B: Type Design: Type Family
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If your typeface has various styles, weights, widths, variations, or italics, enter it here. This is also the category for variable fonts.

YOT-02C: Type Design: Software
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If you’ve created software, code, or a website that generates or modifies typography, enter it here!

YOT-02D: Type Design: Other / Experimental
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If your typeface breaks our norms, or includes something untraditional, enter it here. Or if it just doesn’t seem to fit anywhere else.

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Lettering

YOT-03A: Lettering: Logos / Monograms
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

This category is for logotypes, wordmarks, monograms, or other single pieces of lettering.

YOT-03B: Lettering: 36 Days of Type
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If you’ve created a #36daysoftype project, enter it here! You can either enter a single letter you particularly like as a single piece, or the entire project as a series.

YOT-03C: Lettering: Posters / Moving Posters
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

The classic of communication is, as always, the poster. If your poster has type on it that you either created yourself, modified, or disrupted, this is the category for you. (Posters can also include billboards, social media, banners, etc.)

YOT-03D: Lettering: Motion Design
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If your project has drawn or modified type and relies on movement, enter it here. Films, videos, animations, stickers, trailers, credits, or even well done subtitles count!

YOT-03E: Lettering: AR / VR / AI
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

This category is for lettering made using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, created for 3D, or seen with augmented reality.

YOT-03F: Lettering: Signage / Murals
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

This category is for larger-scale, painted or printed lettering. Sign painting, murals, graffiti, projections, or gilded lettering all belong here.

YOT-03G: Lettering: Environmental Design
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

Environmental design is for large-scale lettering. A window-display, an architectural or industrial design project, an art installation.

YOT-03H: Lettering: Other / Experimental
Extended Deadline Fee: $55.00

If we didn't cover your lettering in one of the categories above, enter it here. Perhaps you’ve weaved something, photographed something, or otherwise found a unique way to modify or create type. We can’t wait to see it.