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NEW YORK, October 29, 2026 — The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced six top creatives who will join its esteemed Advisory Board.
Established in New York in 1946, TDC is a global nonprofit organization celebrating the power of typography, and an international community united by the shared belief that type drives culture. The volunteer TDC Advisory Board serves to ideate, provide feedback, keep the organization relevant, and connect to different communities.
Starting two-year terms on the TDC Advisory Board are:
- Gary Fogelson, Partner, Other Means, Brooklyn
- Beatriz Lozano, Founder, Creative Director, Ancho, Mexico City/New York
- Monika Marek-Łucka, TDC Archive Curator, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw
- Audrie Poole, Executive Producer, Partner, Sunday Afternoon, New York
- Nina Stössinger, Senior Type Designer, Frere-Jones Type, Brooklyn
- Rich Tu, Executive Creative Director, Partner, Sunday Afternoon, New York
Continuing their terms are:
- Sahar Afshar, Type Designer, Dogray Type, London
- Parasto Backman, Founder, Studio Parasto Backman; Senior Lecturer, Konstfack, Stockholm
- Manija Emran, Co-founder, Creative Director, Me and the Bootmaker, Los Angeles
- Min Lew, Managing Partner, Executive Creative Director, BASE Design, New York
- Eric Q. Liu, Typographer, The Type, Tokyo
- Juan Carlos Pagan, Co-founder, Partner, Sunday Afternoon, New York
- Trisha Tan, Creative Director, CHASE Travel, Brooklyn
- David Jon Walker, Principal, Rhealistic; Associate Professor, Yale University, New Haven
Chris Sergio, Creative Head at Macmillan Publishers Group, New York, serves as TDC President, and Joe Newton is TDC Executive Director.
"We're at an incredible inflection point in the creative industry, where technology is changing how we make things, but human expression matters more than ever. This is especially true in the world of typography as a reflection of culture, identity, and our expanding world,” said Sunday Afternoon’s Rich Tu, who’s also a prestigious ADC Young Guns 8 winner. “I'm excited to join TDC at a moment when the boundaries between art, design, and technology are becoming increasingly fluid. There’s a huge opportunity to celebrate not just work that’s best-in-class, but the folks who are rewriting the rules and taking the industry into new exciting places."
Ancho’s Beatriz Lozano added: "When I moved to New York nearly a decade ago, TDC welcomed me into a community that expanded my view of design and introduced me to generous mentors who opened many doors in my career. Now based in Mexico City, I’m excited to join the Advisory Board and serve on the education and events committees. I look forward to helping build that same community for today’s young designers, across borders and languages."
TDC, part of The One Club for Creativity, runs the prestigious global TDC competition, offers Beatrice Warde, Adé Hogue and TDC scholarship programs, coordinates annual traveling global exhibitions of award-winning work, produces the Type Drives Culture conference series, and hosts numerous talks, panels, and workshops throughout the year.
The TDC73 competition is currently open for entries. Early bird deadline for digital and physical entries is Friday, January 22, 2027, with entry fees increasing for the regular deadline of Friday, February 12, 2027, and final deadline on Friday, March 5, 2027.
Follow TDC at @typedirectors.