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Calendar (2025: Pulled Thread, 2024: Plaid, 2023: 3 Strands of Floss, 2022: Type Family)

Masaki Komoto, Yuri Sato

TDC PrizeTokyo TDC2026Swiss / International Typographic StyleHand rendered
Tokyo TDC · 2026

Calendar (2025: Pulled Thread, 2024: Plaid, 2023: 3 Strands of Floss, 2022: Type Family)

Masaki Komoto, Yuri Sato

TDC Prize · official source below
Hook
A four-frame documentation board of printed and textile calendar artefacts, not a single poster: a white openwork panel of month grids photographed on a black backing, a flat colour scan of a full-year grid with a printer's colour bar along the bottom edge, an angled shot of fanned pale sheets carrying grids of small characters, and a close view of a coarse brown fabric sheet with pale month lettering, each bound along a punched edge.
Hierarchy
The repeating date grid reads first as texture, the month headings second, and the individual numerals only up close.
Energy
All numerals and month names are built from grid-bound units — stitch- or pixel-like cells — so the type is coarse, monospaced, and identical in width, with month labels only slightly larger than the date figures.
Transfer
Fix one rigid modular grid for repeating data, then vary only material, ground, and hue across a series — consistency of structure lets surface alone carry variation.

Why it works

Locking every character to the same grid cell turns dense date information into an even field, so material and colour changes can differentiate editions without any layout redesign.

What to borrow

Fix one rigid modular grid for repeating data, then vary only material, ground, and hue across a series — consistency of structure lets surface alone carry variation.

Look closer

CompositionOpen

A four-frame documentation board of printed and textile calendar artefacts, not a single poster: a white openwork panel of month grids photographed on a black backing, a flat colour scan of a full-year grid with a printer's colour bar along the bottom edge, an angled shot of fanned pale sheets carrying grids of small characters, and a close view of a coarse brown fabric sheet with pale month lettering, each bound along a punched edge.

TypographyOpen

All numerals and month names are built from grid-bound units — stitch- or pixel-like cells — so the type is coarse, monospaced, and identical in width, with month labels only slightly larger than the date figures.

HierarchyOpen

The repeating date grid reads first as texture, the month headings second, and the individual numerals only up close.

Image strategyOpen

Photography is used to record surface and construction — raking light on thread and weave, a visible binding edge, and a retained colour bar — so the frames document material as much as layout.

Color strategyOpen

Two opposite treatments across frames: near-monochrome white-on-black and pale-on-brown in three frames, and one frame where each month column is a different muted hue, so colour distinguishes one edition rather than decorating all of them.

Still to be written: Concept · Negative space · Texture · Production

Notes by POSTER INDEX — observational analysis from official Tokyo TDC asset

Source + details
Year
2026
Source
Tokyo Type Directors Club
Edition
Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026
Competition
Small Graphics
Award
TDC Prize
Country
Not recorded
Type
Not recorded
Theme
Not recorded
Style
Swiss / International Typographic Style, Hand rendered
Typography
Not analyzed yet
Colour
Not analyzed yet
Density
Not analyzed yet
Imagery
Not analyzed yet
Provenance
Verified · official source
Source note
Client: Non Client · Category: Small Graphics
Image
External hotlink
Image note
Official Tokyo TDC asset · external hotlink · not owned by POSTER INDEX
Image credit
Tokyo Type Directors Club
Record ID
tdc-2026-011-calendar-2025-pulled-thread-2024-plaid-2023-3-strands-of-floss-2022-type

Source URL: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/

Image source: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/

Designers: Masaki Komoto · Yuri Sato

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