Six from India win Type Directors Club awards

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The Type Directors Club, the world's leading typography organization, announced the winners for its two premiere global professional awards programs — TDC68 Communication Design and 25TDC Typeface Design competitions — and the Young Ones TDC student awards, including six in India.

TDC68 Communication Design recognizes how letterforms are used, honoring typographic excellence and innovation along with the art and craft of typography and design. 25TDC Typeface Design focuses on how letterforms are drawn, celebrating new typeface designs worldwide. All of this year's winning work can be viewed on the winners showcase.

Winners from India are as follows:

Ek Type "Multi-script Variable Indic Type Family" for Google Font in 25TDC
Novel New Delhi "Guftgu" for Offset Projects in TDC68, Books - Campaign
Novel New Delhi and Thoughtput Pune "Khoj Website" for Khoj in TDC68, Digital Media - Websites - Single
Sanchit Sawaria "Moebius Logotype" for Moebius in TDC68, Logotypes - Single
Khyati Trehan "36 Days of Type 2021" personal project in TDC68, Experimental - Single
Globally, Pentagram New York led the way with seven TDC68 Certificates of Typographic Excellence wins, followed by The New York Times Magazine with four. The Hague-based Typotheque was the top 25TDC Typeface Design winner with three certificates, one each for Greta Armenian, Lava Syllabics and November Tamil.

Entries for all the competitions were received from 63 countries. There were 202 winners from 36 countries in TDC68, 29 winners from 13 countries for 25TDC, and 58 winners from nine countries in this year's Young Ones TDC student awards. Winners represent 36 countries, with the US leading the way with 66, followed by China with 35, Germany with 24, Switzerland with 11 and Netherlands with 10.

Winners were selected by a diverse jury of 27 leading designers from a dozen countries, reflecting TDC's ongoing commitment to increase the level of diversity and representation in all aspects of its programming, membership, and on its Advisory Board.

TDC68 and 25TDC winners receive a TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence and digital tag certifying their work is among the world's best of the year. Winning work will be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, The World's Best Typography® and showcased exhibits that travel to museums, schools and design organizations around the world.

TDC will unveil this year's Best of Show and Judge's Choice winners on July 13, 2022, at the opening of its annual exhibition of winning work at 41 Cooper Square Art Gallery at Cooper Union in New York. The exhibition will then travel to 20 cities in seven countries.

TDC68 and 25TDC competitions were supported by a striking branding campaign designed by TDC member Tereza Bettinardi, based in São Paulo, which creatively explores the "counterspaces" or inner parts of letters. Typefaces for the campaign were Proxy by Commercial Type and ABC Laica by Dinamo, both of which were generously donated by the foundries.

Established in 1946 in New York, TDC celebrates and amplifies the power of typography and serves as a global community united by the shared belief that type drives culture and culture drives type. The competition was established in 1955.

This year marks the second edition of these typography awards competitions since the announcement of TDC's merger with The One Club for Creativity, the world's foremost nonprofit organization whose mission is to support and celebrate the global creative community.