TDC Scholarship

Type Directors Club (TDC) Scholarship Program. This program offers five $1,000 USD scholarships to students in the US and worldwide. The scholarship funds will be directly applied to the recipient’s senior year tuition from September 2024 to May 2025.

It is a talent and need-based scholarship. The applicants must provide a letter of recommendation from an instructor, a portfolio of three projects, and a statement stating why they need the financial award. The scholarship will be awarded to a student who demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in typography.

Winners

Kushagr Awasthi

Parsons School of Design

Sohyeong Kim

School of Visual Arts

Ossian Osborne

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Juju Stojanovic

University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

Yubin Won

School of Visual Arts

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Ezhishin Scholarship

The Ezhishin Scholarship was started in 2023 created in followup to the successful Ezhishin Type Drives Culture conference, the first-ever panel and workshop event dedicated to Native North American typography.

The $5,000 scholarship, funded by Google, is for Native American and First Nation individuals in the US and Canada, respectively, who exemplify a creative practice that explores typography, type design, or relevant linguistic work.

In addition to the financial awards, the scholarship winner will receive a one-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 45.

Winner – Aiyana Twigg – University of Victoria

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Ade Hogue Scholarship

Broderick “Adé” Hogue was a Chicago-based art director and letterer as passionate about the sport of cycling as he was about the intricacies of design—with a drive to foster diversity in both worlds. Tragically, he was killed in 2021 at the age of 32, after being struck by a van while cycling in Chicago’s Near North Side. What followed was an outpouring of grief from the communities that Adé touched, and a desire to help continue his creative legacy. In cooperation with the newly established Broderick Adé Hogue Foundation, the Type Directors Club has rechristened its Superscript Scholarship in Adé’s honor.

Sponsored by Monotype, the Adé Hogue Scholarship will be awarded to an outstanding BIPOC student currently in their junior (in the junior year of their undergraduate degree) year of college or in their first year of graduate or postgraduate school. The recipient of this scholarship must demonstrate exceptional talent and promise in the creation of letterforms, be they typeface, lettering, or calligraphy or in typographic design.

Winner – Patrick Guanaz – Senec, Sao Paulo

Honorable Mention

Jaamal Benjamin

Yale University

Nikki Caballero

Texas A&M

Shakthi Hari Narayanasamy Ven Kataraman

Maryland Institute College of Art

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Beatrice Warde Scholarship

The TDC’s first female member, Beatrice Warde (1900-1969), was a journalist, typographical scholar and communicator on typography, and passionate advocate of education.

Named in her honor and sponsored by Monotype, the scholarship recognizes one woman college junior (in the junior year of their undergraduate degree), whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and aptitude for typography, lettering, type design, and/or design criticism.

The scholarship, valued at $5,000 USD, will be applied to the recipient’s final year tuition, beginning in September 2024. In addition to the financial awards, the scholarship winner will receive a one-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 45.

Winner – Gabriela Palla Sanchez – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar