2027 Scholarship Applications open soon!

Our program awards annual, talent-based scholarships with an emphasis on need and diversity. The scholarships are available to qualified students worldwide who demonstrate exceptional skill in typography, design, and creative vision. Read the specific requirements below.

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The TDC Scholarship
Deadline: TK

TDC Scholarship

Award: Five awards of $1,000
Deadline: (Applications Closed) 2027 coming soon
Application Status: Announced late Spring 2027
Eligibility: Undergraduate students worldwide entering their final year (September 2027–May 2028)

The TDC Scholarship is a talent- and need-based award open to undergraduate students entering their final year. It recognizes students with strong typographic ability, creative vision, and financial need. Scholarship funds are applied directly to tuition in partnership with the student’s school registrar.

In addition to the monetary award, recipients will receive a one-year TDC Student membership and a copy of the most recent The World’s Best Typography®.

Qualification Requirements

Applicants must be:

  • Currently enrolled in an undergraduate program
  • Entering their final year of undergraduate study in the fall of 2027
  • Studying at an accredited college, community college, or university anywhere in the world

The work should reflect exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in typography, lettering, or type design.

Application Requirements

  • Completed application form here
  • A personal statement (approx. 250 words or under 1,000 characters)
  • Three type or design projects, each represented by up to five images, videos, or texts, along with a short explanatory paragraph (maximum of 15 images). 
  • Letters of recommendation (only required for second-round candidates. You will be contacted if this is necessary.)

Award Includes

  • $1,000 applied directly to tuition via your school's registrar (August 2027)
  • One-year TDC Student membership

Scholarship recipients will be announced after the application review is complete.

Adé Hogue Scholarship
Deadline: TK

Adé Hogue Scholarship

Award: $5,000
Deadline: (Applications Closed) 2027 coming soon
Application Status: Announced late Spring 2027
Eligibility: BIPOC students entering in to their junior year of undergrad or first year of graduate/postgraduate study

The Adé Hogue Scholarship honors the life and legacy of Broderick “Adé” Hogue—a beloved Chicago-based art director and letterer. Sponsored by Monotype and established in partnership with the Broderick Adé Hogue Foundation, this $5,000 scholarship supports emerging BIPOC creatives who show promise in type design, lettering, calligraphy, or type-focused graphic design.

In addition to the financial award, the recipient will receive a one-year TDC Student membership.

Qualification Requirements

Applicants must be:

  • A BIPOC student
  • Entering in to their final year of an undergraduate program, or
  • Into their first year of a graduate or postgraduate program
  • Studying at an accredited college, community college, or university anywhere in the world

The work should demonstrate exceptional talent and creative potential in the letterform arts.

Application Requirements

  • Completed application form here
  • A personal statement (approx. 250 words or under 1,000 characters)
  • Three type or design projects, each represented by up to five images, videos, or texts, along with a short explanatory paragraph (maximum of 15 images). 
  • Letters of recommendation (only required for second-round candidates)

Award Includes

  • $5,000 toward tuition expenses
  • One-year TDC Student membership

Scholarship recipients will be announced following the review period.

Beatrice Warde Scholarship
Deadline: TK

Beatrice Warde Scholarship

Award: $5,000
Deadline: (Applications Closed) 2027 coming soon
Application Status: Announced late spring 2027

Eligibility: Women and nonbinary students worldwide, currently enrolled in undergraduate design programs

The Beatrice Warde Scholarship is named in honor of Beatrice Warde, a pioneering typographic communicator and advocate for the power of clear design. Sponsored by Monotype, this $5,000 scholarship recognizes a woman or nonbinary individual whose work demonstrates a commitment to to show strong work centered around typography, type design, lettering, editorial design, or related communication fields

In addition to the financial award, the recipient will receive a one-year TDC Student membership.

Qualification Requirements

Applicants must be:

  • A woman or nonbinary design student
  • Entering in to their final year in design, in an educational institution anywhere in the world
  • Able to show strong work centered around typography, type design, lettering, editorial design, or related communication fields

Application Requirements

  • Completed application form here
  • A personal statement (approx. 250 words or under 1,000 characters)
  • Three samples of work, each represented by up to five images, videos, or texts, along with a short explanatory paragraph
  • Letters of recommendation (only required for second-round candidates. You will be alerted if this is needed)

Award Includes

  • $5,000 toward tuition expenses
  • One-year TDC Student membership

The scholarship recipient will be announced after the review process is complete.

2026 Recipients

Beatrice Warde Scholarship

Sanem Sari
University of Central Florida

Adé Hogue Scholarship

Maya Cisneros
School of Visual Arts

The TDC Scholarship

Ziyi Wang
School of Visual Arts
Hannah Thiel
Hochschule Düsseldorf Peter Behrens School of Arts
Manas Shah
MIT Institute of Design
Luise Motsch
Bauhaus University Weimar
Ziru Lin
School of Visual Arts
Jennifer Lee
School of Visual Arts
Giseok Jang
The Cooper Union
Andres Barreto
University of Central Florida
Adrien Bachelart
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Nancy

Beatrice Warde Scholarship

Sanem Sari
University of Central Florida
Siyun Li
School of Visual Arts
Ania Wielunska
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
Tasnima Tanzim
Rhode Island School of Design
Blossom Liu
Art Center College
Tatiana López
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
Gabriella Parra Sánchez
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Adé Hogue Scholarship

Maya Cisneros
School of Visual Arts
Charitssa Stone
Yale University, School of Art
Katherine Ispache
California Institute of the Arts
Patrick Guanaz
Senac São Paulo

The TDC Scholarship

Ziyi Wang
School of Visual Arts
Hannah Thiel
Hochschule Düsseldorf Peter Behrens School of Arts
Manas Shah
MIT Institute of Design
Luise Motsch
Bauhaus University Weimar
Ziru Lin
School of Visual Arts
Jennifer Lee
School of Visual Arts
Giseok Jang
The Cooper Union
Andres Barreto
University of Central Florida
Adrien Bachelart
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Nancy
Susan Arian
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Indrani Sant
MIT Institute of Design, Pune, Maharashtra
Susan Arian
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Suyoung Han
Hongik University
Pei Lin Tai
School of Visual Arts
Moe Ebii
Parsons School of Design
Gabrielle Mae Grimm
School of Visual Arts
Eleanor Yang (Shuxuan Yang)
ArtCenter College of Design
Natalie Ho
Rhode Island School of Design
Qianyi Wang
School of Visual Arts
Philipp Arnold
Hochschue für Grafik und Buckkunst, Leipzig, Germany
Alejandra Santos
Parsons School of Design
Eugene Rogovitz
Fashion Institute of Technology
Paul T. Reid
ArtCenter College
Beom Seok Kim
School of Visual
Pei Wen Sharon Goh
Pratt Institute
Brian J. Hoffer
The Cooper Union
Silas Jansson
The Graphic Arts Institue of Denmark
Sophia Yoon
The Cooper Union
Lyndi Parett
Portfolio Center
Takaaki Okada
Parsons School of Design
Avi Krautz
Pratt Institute
Boram Kim
Fashion Institute of Technology
Timea Dancs
School of Visual Arts
Natsumi Nishizumi
School of Visual Arts
Tanaporn May Jampathom
Pasons School of Design
Jukiana Fajardo
Fashion Institute of Technology
Anna Djahiva
Maryland Institute of Art
Grace Chou
The Cooper Union
Lorraine Abraham
Pratt Institute
Crystal Ott
Hartford Art School
Aviva Michaelov
Parsons School of Design
Philip Lubliner
Pratt Institute
Johana Londono
The Cooper Union
Monica Botto
Fashion Institute of Technology
Shana Burnett
School of Visual Arts
Francisco Manuel Quiles Noguez
Universidad Autónoma, Mexico
Omid Rashidi
California College of Arts
Jesse Packer
Pratt Institute
Ewa Orzechowska
Fashion Institute of Technology
Stuart Lyle
Parson Scholof Design
Allan Cole
The Cooper Union
Mona Chehadi
School of Visual Arts
Aleki Jalonen
Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design, Helsinki, Finland
Roy Rub
The Cooper Union
Jee-Eun Lee
Fashion Institute of Technology
William Hayden
Pratt Institute*
Jillian Hardy
Parsons School of Design
Rachel Ann Hardy
East Carolina University
Catalina Garcia
School of Visual Arts
Mitja Miklavcic
University of Reading, UK
Eric Wrenn
Pratt Institute
Adam Mignanelli
Parsons School of Design
Louise Ma
The Cooper Union
Poliana Kirst
Fashion Institue of Technology
Wei Lieh Lee
School of Visual Arts
Melanie Duarte
Maine College of Art
Nikola Radovani
Art Academy Split, Croatia
Jon Variano
Pratt Institute
Michelle Testani
Tyler School of Art
Linon Small
Schoolof Visual Arts
Amanda Morante
Fashion Institute of Technology
Gleb Lobachov
The Cooper Union
Meng He
Parsons School of Design
Magdalena Fumagali
Universidad de Buenos Aires,Argentina
Natasha R. Rodriguez-Bacchus
Pratt Institute
Michelle Park
CalArts
Sarah Nguyen
School of Visual Arts
Joshua Hearn
Fashion Institute of Technology
James Dunphy
Parsons School of Design
Florian Brozek
The Cooper Union
Rafael Almonte
Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
Calvin Waterman
Rhode Island School of Design
Gracie A. Lee
Parsons The New School for Design
Skip Hursh
Pratt Institute
Grant Gold
School of Visual Arts
Sam Chun
The Cooper Union School of Art
Marie E. Castiglione
Fashion Institute of Technology
Hyun Jeong Kim
EWHA Womans University, Seoul
Amit Werber
The Cooper Union School of Art
Taylor C. Pemberton
Savannah College of Art and Design
Daria Marcial
Pratt Institute
Adly M. Elewa
School of Visual Arts, New York
Sara Hawkless
Whanganui School of Design, New Zealand
Greogory Skiano
The Cooper Union
Walter Shock
Pratt Institute
Anne Reutinger
UCLA Design Media Arts
Mary Anne DiLillo
School of Visual Arts
Victoria Herrera
Academy of Art University, San Francisco
Corey Thomas
School of Visual Arts
Debra May Ohayon
Parsons The New School
Christina Janus
Pratt Institute
Julie Harris
The Cooper Union
Michelle Wang
Pratt Institute
William Shum
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Cayetano Navarrete
The Cooper Union School of Art
George Kalofolias
Vakalo College of Art and Design, Athens, Greece
Andrea DeMarco
State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz, NY
Caleb Brown
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Atif Azam
Parsons School of Design
Rocio Peralta Santana BAU
Centre Unversitari Disseny, Barcelona, Spain
Abbie Winers
Virginia Commonwealth University
Lindsay Soto
School of Visual Arts
Shannon McLean
Fashion Institute of Technology
Maryann George
Parsons The New School
Sedrick Chisom
The Cooper Union School of Art
Christina Bull
Pratt Institute
Caue Nouer de Oliveira
Architecture and Urbanism - University of São Paulo
Isabella Anne Reinhofer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Prisco
The Cooper Union School of Art
Ming Yu Shin
Fashion Institute of Technology
Maurann Stein
Parsons The New School for Design
Caroline A. Provine
School of Visual Arts
Andrew Diemer
Pratt Institute
Maciek Polczynski
Polish Japanese Academy of Information, Warsaw, Poland
Yachun Peng
Cornish College of the Arts
Andrea Villanueva
The Cooper Union
Ming Yu Shin
Fashion Institute of Technology
Brian Parisi
Pratt Institute
Liang Dai and Siling Zhao
School of Visual Arts
Gabriela Carnabuci
Parsons The New School for Design
Virginie Jamieson
Université du Québec a Montréal (UQAM) Montreal
Alex Tomlinson
The Cooper Union
Kelsey Sugg
College for Creative Studies, Detroit
Kohki Kbori
School of Visual Arts
Zeynep Gunger
Pratt Institute
Anna Feng
Parsons The New School for Design
Michelle Dines
Fashion Institute of Technology
Anna Skoozén
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
Kenneth Vanoverbeke
PXL-MAD (Media,Arts & Design), Belgium
Yasemin Varlik
Parsons School of Design
Nohemy Ramos
Art Center College of Design
Jiyeon Kim
School of Visual Arts
Eva Gabrielsse
The Cooper Union
Hua Chen
Pratt Institute
Lea Cawthorne
Fashion Institute of Technology
Jiang Jiayao
Nihon University of College of Art, Japan
Troy Vasilakis
Fashion Institute of Technology
Jimin Park
Parsons School of Design
Sirui Liao
Pratt Institute
Han Sol Jang
School of Visual Arts
Cody Hopper
Virginia Commonwealth University
Valerie Franco
The Cooper Union
Bruno Vera
Carrera de Diseño Gráfico, FADU (Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo) Universidad de Buenos Aires
Philbert Widjadja
University of Washington,Seattle
Kaylan Tran
School of Visual Arts
Nicholas Marabella
The Cooper Union
Yuliya Kosheeva
Fashion Institute of Technology
Eleanor Grever
Pratt Institute
Calen Chung
Parsons School of Design
Derrick Menash Bonsu
KNUST
Xinyi Zhao
Parsons School of Design
Bina Thorsen
School of Visual Arts
Jayla Thompson-Bey
Lincoln University
Pauline Esguerra
Pratt Institute
Dianne Bahram Zadeh Ebrahimi
Fashion Institute of Technology
Ana Valerie Castillos
The Cooper Union
Elina Pyrohova
Polish-Japanese Academy, Warsaw
Anthony Sennett
Pratt Institute
Sarah Ma
Parsons School of Design
Anli (Alicia) Liu
School of Visual Arts
Elliot Jover
Fashion Institute of Technology
Catherine Currie
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Andrius Alvarez-Backus
The Cooper Union
Midafe Adogame
University of the Arts Philadelphia
Juju Stojanovic
University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
Ossian Osborne
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Sohyeong Kim
School of Visual Arts
Kushagr Awasthi
Parsons School of Design

Superscript (Later Adé Hogue)

Lynn Sohn
School of Visual Arts
Sakinah Bell
Mercy College, New York

Ezhishin Scholarship

Mark Bennett
University of Toronto
Aiyana Twigg
University of Victoria