TDC Selects Jury for One Asia Creative Awards’ New Typography Discipline

In recognition of its fundamental importance in all forms of communications, Typography, Type Design & Lettering has been added as a separate discipline with its own jury of experts for the 2022 One Asia Creative Awards, produced by The One Club Asia. The dedicated jury of leading type practitioners, designers, and lettering artists from throughout...

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TDC Announces 25 Winners For Global Ascenders 3 Competition

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today announced the 25 talented young winners from 13 countries in the Ascenders 3 competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers age 35 and under. Ascenders is the world’s premier portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile...

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Pentagram Takes Best of Show, Scholarship Winners Announced As TDC68 Exhibition Opens in New York

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, has opened its TDC68 Exhibition of this year’s competition winners in New York, as well as announced this year’s Best of Show, Judge’s Choice, top Young Ones TDC Student winners, and scholarship honorees. The TDC68 Exhibition, displaying this...

Jul 2022

TDC Presents “Ezhishin”, the First-Ever Conference On Native North American Typography

NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 — The Type Directors Club, the leading organization for the global type community, this fall will host Ezhishin, the first-ever conference dedicated to Native North American typography. Named after the Ojibwe word for “s/he leaves a mark”, Ezhishin was developed to facilitate conversation around the typographic needs of First...

Jun 2022

Global Winners Announced for TDC68 and 25TDC Competitions

NEW YORK, March 30, 2022 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced the winners for its two premiere global professional awards programs — TDC68 Communication Design and 25TDC Typeface Design competitions — and the Young Ones TDC student awards. TDC68 Communication Design recognizes how letterforms are used, honoring...

Mar 2022

Type Director Club Opens Call For Global 2022 Ascenders Competition

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today opened the call for entries for the third edition of its global Ascenders competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers age 35 and under. Ascenders is a portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile forms, and the inspiring...

Mar 2022

TDC Renames BIPOC Program as Adé Hogue Scholarship, Opens Call for 2022 Beatrice Warde Scholarship

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has renamed its annual BIPOC student scholarship as the Adé Hogue Scholarship, in memory of the talented young designer.   The 2022 call for entries for that newly rebranded program and the Beatrice Warde Scholarship for female-identifying students globally is now open.  Both scholarships...

Feb 2022

TDC Bolsters 2022 Advisory Board Diversity With Seven New Members

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has further enhanced existing diversity within its leadership with the announcement of seven new TDC Advisory Board members. Starting two-year terms this month, the new members of the volunteer Advisory Board are: Douglas Davis, strategist, author, professor, City University...

Jan 2022

TDC Announces “Type Drives Culture 2022” Virtual Conference

The Type Directors Club (TDC) announced the launch of Type Drives Culture 2022, a global virtual conference on March 4-5, 2022 that will explore the ways typography is used to form and transform creative communities and the broader culture.  In recognition of TDC’s 75th anniversary, the theme of this year’s conference is “Type: the Next 75 Years”....

Jan 2022

Ksenya Samarskaya Joins Type Directors Club As Its First Managing Director

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has appointed designer, strategist, and educator Ksenya Samarskaya to serve as its first managing director in the club’s 75-year history. Samarskaya will work alongside Carol Wahler, long-standing TDC executive director, to expand on TDC’s commitment to typographic excellence. ...

Jan 2022