Scholarship
In support of design education, the TDC has awarded scholarships to promising students and practitioners of typography since 1994.
The TDC Scholarship
The scholarship application is open.
Type Directors Club (TDC) Scholarship Program. This program offers six $1,000 USD scholarships, and four $500 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 2025 to May 2026.
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.
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Please Note: The scholarship funds will be sent to the schools’ registrars in August 2025 and entered into the tuition account of the scholarship recipients. Please note that the scholarship monies will not be paid directly to the students.
Qualification Requirements
- This scholarship is available to students who are currently in their junior year and will be entering their senior year of an undergraduate degree at any college worldwide.
- The work samples should exemplify exceptional talent, sophistication, and aptitude for typography, lettering, type design, and/or design criticism.
Application Requirements
- A completed application form.
- A statement about you and your work (approx. 250 Words or under 1000 characters).
- Three samples of work, each represented by up to five images, videos, or texts along with a short explanatory paragraph.
- Letters of recommendation for those candidates who advance to the second round.
Award
- One-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 46.
- The scholarship funds will be sent to the schools’ registrars in August 2025 and entered into the tuition account of the scholarship recipients. Please note that the scholarship monies will not be paid directly to the students.
- The date of Scholarship recipient acknowledgments will be announced.
Adé Hogue Scholarship
Audience: BIPOC Students in Junior Year of Undergrad or 1st Year Graduate/Post-Graduate
The scholarship application is open.
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.
The scholarship, valued at $5,000 USD, will be applied to the recipient’s final year tuition, beginning in September 2025. In addition to the financial awards, the scholarship winner will receive a one-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 46.
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Qualification Requirements
- This is a scholarship for BIPOC students in their (in the junior year of their undergraduate degree) year of college or in their first year of graduate or postgraduate school, studying anywhere worldwide.
- The work samples should exemplify exceptional talent and promise in the creation of letterforms, be they typeface, lettering, or calligraphy or in typographic design.
Application Requirements
- A completed application form
- A statement about you and your work (approx 250 Words, or under 1000 characters)
- Three samples of work, each represented by up to five images, videos, or texts along with a short explanatory paragraph
- Letters of recommendation for those candidates who advance to the second round
Award
- $5,000 toward tuition expenses
- One-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 46
- Scholarship recipient acknowledgments will be announced….
The scholarship application period has ended. Recipients to be announced soon.
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.
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.
Deadline: June 3rd
- One-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 45
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Scholarship recipient acknowledgments will be during the ASCENDERS 2024 Award Ceremony, August 14th, 2024, in New York City
Beatrice Warde ScholarshipApplication Opens Soon
Audience: Women in Junior Year of Undergraduate Program
The scholarship application period has ended. Recipients to be announced soon.
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 2025. In addition to the financial awards, the scholarship winner will receive a one-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 46.
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Qualification Requirements
This is a scholarship for women in their (in the junior year of their undergraduate degree) year of college, studying anywhere worldwide.
The work samples should exemplify exceptional talent, sophistication, and aptitude for typography, lettering, type design, and/or design criticism.
Application Requirements
A completed application form
A statement about you and your work (approx 250 Words, or under 1000 characters)
Three samples of work, each represented by up to five images, videos, or texts along with a short explanatory paragraph
Letters of recommendation for those candidates who advance to the second round
Award
$5,000 toward tuition expenses
One-year TDC membership and The World’s Best Typography®, Typography 46
Scholarship recipient acknowledgments will be announced.