Judges’ Choice winners also announced; winners exhibition at Creative Week in New York.
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced that Ek Type, a collaborative type design studio based in Mumbai, has been awarded the coveted Best of Type Design honors for “Naatak” in the prestigious global TDC71 Competition
The announcement was made at a special TDC71 winners exhibition held during The One Club for Creativity’s Creative Week 2025 in New York.
This year’s esteemed global jury of leading professionals In the field from around the world also made their personal TDC71 Judges’ Choice selections from among all of this year’s winners.
Ek Type’s winning work will be highlighted in TDC’s Typography 46: The World’s Best Typography® Annual (available soon), alongside comments from judges about why they felt the work deserved special honor.
The two other Best of Discipline winners announced today are Best of Communication Design for “New York City FC Branding” on behalf of New York City Football Club by Gretel Brooklyn and Frere-Jones Type Brooklyn, and Best of Lettering for “Stanford d.School Yearbook 2023” on behalf of Stanford University d.School by Daniel Frumhoff Design New York.
TDC71 Certificate winners were announced last month, with Pentagram New York leading the way with seven coveted wins. The New York Times Magazine New York has six winning entries, followed by Typotheque The Hague with five.
Overall, the jury awarded 170 TDC71 Certificates of Typographic Excellence – 104 in Communication Design, 37 in Type Design, and 29 in Lettering – to entrants from 26 countries.
A showcase of all TDC71 Certificate winners can be viewed here.
Jury Presidents for this year’s TDC71 competition were three members of the TDC Advisory Board: Min Lew, managing partner, ECD, Base Design in New York, for Communication Design; David Jon Walker, principal, Rhealistic, New Haven; Professor of Art in Graphic Design, Yale University, for Lettering; and Sahar Afshar, type designer, founding partner, Dogray Type Foundry in London for Type Design.
All TDC71 winners receive a Certificate of Typographic Excellence and digital seal certifying their work is among the world’s best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, and showcased in eight exhibitions that travel to museums, schools and design organizations around the world.
The One Club for Creativity – home of The One Show, ADC Annual Awards, Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) awards, ONE Asia Creative Awards, Type Directors Club and competition, TDC Ascenders, Young Guns, Young Ones Student Awards, Next Creative Leaders, ONE School, ONE Creator Lab, Where Are All The Black People conference and career fair, Portfolio Night, Creative Week, and more – is the world’s foremost non-profit organization whose mission is to support and celebrate the success of the global creative community. Revenue generated from entries to its global awards shows goes back into the industry to fund programming under the organization’s four pillars: Education, Inclusion & Diversity, Gender Equality, and Creative Development.