Besides Tipos Latinos excellence honor, Fernando Mello’s Frida typeface was one of the ten award-winning works of Tokyo Type Directors Club 2008.

The japanese exhibition presents more than 140 works selected from a total of 3140 entries, 857 of those came from other countries.

At the beginning of this month, Fernando traveled to Tokyo to receive the award and to attend the exhibition opening and the design forum TDC Day, where he lectured about Frida’s creation process on latin and tamil scripts.

In 18 years of competition, it’s the first time Tokyo TDC prize is awarded to a Brazilian. Ikko Tanaka, John Maeda, Carlos Segura, Stefan Sagmeister and Matthew Carter are among the other winners.

Tokyo TDC Exhibition 2008 can be seen at Ginza Graphic Gallery until april 26th.

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