从文字设计竞赛中探寻中文字体的未来属性

在文字发展过程中，设计师作为字体设计者理应成为推动文字发展的先锋力量。近几年，国内外一些重大设计竞赛都以“文字设计”为主题，反映设计行业对现代生活传播环境中文字的运用与发展的关注。正如国内外最具代表性的字体设计竞赛“方正奖”中文字体设计竞赛与日本TDC字体指导俱乐部年度奖，其发展历程被看作是当代文字设计发展的缩影，我们可以从中发现文字设计发展的规律、方法及特点，从而有助于我们探索未来中文字体设计的各种可能性。

Find out the Future Feotures of Chinese Typogrophy from the Competitions of Typogrophy Design

In the course of development of the typography, the designers, as progressive communicators, should be the pioneer force to promote the development of typography. In recent years, some major competitions both home and abroad used ＂Typography Design＂ as their themes, reflecting that design industry has been giving a lot of attention to the application and development of typography in modern living communicating environment. Tokyo TDC annual awards and ＂Founder Awards＂ Chinese Type Design competition are the representative competitions which development can be regarded as the epitome of modern typography development. Through comparing and analyzing the two authoritative typography design competitions, we could find features, methods and rules of typography design, this may be help us to explore the possibilities of future typography.