NEW YORK, April 9, 2024 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced Margaret Calvert OBE RDI as this year’s recipient of its highest honor, the prestigious TDC Medal. First awarded to Hermann Zapf in 1967, the TDC Medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of typography.  The honor represents TDC’s collective gratitude to those who, by their work and talent, have demonstrated the value of typography in communication, community, and culture.  The list of past TDC Medalists can be viewed here.   Calvert i ..read more

NEW YORK, March 11, 2024 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has opened the call for applications for their four student scholarship programs. Adé Hogue Scholarship, sponsored by Monotype, is in commemoration of gifted young Chicago-based art director, designer, letterer, and avid cyclist Adé Hogue, in cooperation with the Broderick Adé Hogue Foundation. TDC will award the $5,000 scholarship to an outstanding BIPOC student globally in their junior year of college or first year of graduate or postgraduate school who demonstrates exceptional talent and promise ..read more

NEW YORK, February 20, 2024 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today announced the 20 top creatives from 12 countries who comprise the jury for its global TDC Ascenders 2024 competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers aged 35 and under. Ascenders is a fast-growing portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile forms, and the inspiring up and coming designers — individuals or duos — who are elevating the medium.  Entrants submit six projects – typography, use of type, design, lettering, etc. – w ..read more

NEW YORK, January 30, 2024 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today opened the call for entries for its global TDC Ascenders 2024 competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers aged 35 and under. Ascenders is a fast-growing portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile forms, and the inspiring up and coming designers — individuals or duos — who are elevating the medium.  Entrants submit six projects – typography, use of type, design, lettering, etc. – with short descriptions, a statement of their ..read more

Dutch-born, Berlin-based designer, author, researcher, and TDC Medalist Jan Middendorp sadly passed away last month at the age of 67. In Middendorp’s honor, we are proud to republish eye magazine editor John L. Walters’ reflections on Jan’s life and career from the 44th edition of the TDC Annual. TDC Medal Jan Middendorp Eye editor John L. Walters profiles TDC Medalist Jan Middendorp. Jan didn’t go to Berlin to make his fortune – he found a home there, a friendly, creative milieu in which he could practice all the things at which he excelled. It’s worth remembering that Jan was once a designe ..read more

NEW YORK, September 12, 2023 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, has opened the call for entries for its prestigious TDC70 competition. As changed last year, the program is a single competition under the TDC70 umbrella consisting of three disciplines: Communication Design, Lettering, and Type Design. The Communication Design discipline encompasses any design or creation that uses type, lettering, or written language as a significant element, and is an expansion of what was previously the TDC Communications Design discipline. Typography includes graphic desig ..read more

As the name suggests, this competition has been venerating outstanding creativity in the worlds of type and lettering for a full seven decades. The iconic TDC annuals continue to line the bookshelves of some of the most inspiring designers in the world; here is your opportunity for your work to be added to the next one, in this milestone year, ENTER NOW The TDC Annual Competition consists of three distinct disciplines, each of which will have its own world-class jury to determine what makes its way into the annual. Communication Design welcomes entries that use type and lettering in almo ..read more

NEW YORK, September 8, 2023 — The Type Directors Club, the leading organization for the global type community and part of The One Club for Creativity, will this fall host “Multilingüe: Writing and Typography for Native Languages from America Latina”, the latest in its ongoing Type Drives Culture conference series. Taking place virtually November 9-11, 2023, “Multilingüe” will focus on the conservation, conversation, design, and use of native languages in the contemporary context.  Following the successful approach of last year’s Ezhishin, the first-ever conference dedicated to Native Nort ..read more

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, today announced the 35 talented winners from 14 countries in the Ascenders 2023 competition, celebrating typographers, lettering artists, and type designers age 35 and under. Ascenders is the world’s premier portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile forms, and the inspiring designers — individuals or duos — who are elevating the medium.  Ascenders 2023 winners are: Maram Al Refaei, Archief, Cairo Ximena Amaya, Los Angeles Xing Chen and Li Xiang, United Design Lab, Beijing  Carlos Oliveras ..read more

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, announced the Best of Discipline for professional and student entries and Judge’s Choice winners in its prestigious TDC69 Competition. Best of Typography was awarded to Morcos Key New York for “I Want Sky”, a newsprint collection of prose, poems, and hybrid work celebrating Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazy, created for the publication Mizna. Best of Lettering went to Principal Montréal for their 2022 branding for “Jardins de Métis”. With that year’s theme of “‘adaptation”, the design fea ..read more