Best of Discipline and Judges’ Choice selections, as well as winners exhibition, set for May 13 during Creative Week in New York.
Creative innovation and extraordinary craft from three designers in India was on full display among the global winners in the prestigious TDC71 Competition, announced today by the Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization.
Winners of coveted TDC71 Certificates of Typographic Excellence from India are:
Ek Type Mumbai for “Naatak” in Type Design, Single Axis Type Family
Naveed Hussain Delhi for “Khwabgah: Culture Kitchen” in Lettering, Print – Posters – Series
Pollinate Labs Mumbai for “Pollinate Dynamic Identity” in Communication Design, Print or Digital – Logotype/Monogram – Single
This year’s esteemed global jury awarded a total of 170 TDC71 Certificates of Typographic Excellence – 104 in Communication Design, 37 in Type Design, and 29 in Lettering – to entrants from 26 countries.
Globally, Pentagram New York led the way with seven coveted TDC71 Certificate wins. The New York Times Magazine New York has six winning entries, followed by Typotheque The Hague with five, and The End Design Guangzhou with four.
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.
TDC71 Best of Discipline and Judges’ Choice recipients will be announced on May 13, 2025 during The One Club for Creativity’s annual Creative Week in New York. That’s also the date for a special TDC71 Exhibition of winning work, from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm at Location05, 450 West 31st St, 7th floor.
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, The World’s Best Typography®, and showcased in eight exhibitions that travel to museums, schools and design organizations around the world.
Across its three juries, TDC71 had native experts for writing systems spanning Arabic, Cyrillic, Indic, CJK, Thai, and select African scripts. The addition of these and other judges in recent years is a reflection of TDC’s commitment to have a greater number of the most appropriate experts judging designs for which they have a deep knowledge.
Branding for this year’s competition was created by Paprika, based in Montréal, with fonts generously donated by Klim Type Foundry, in Wellington, NZ.
The One Club for Creativity – home of The One Show, ADC Annual Awards, Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) awards, ONE Asia Awards, Type Directors Club and competition, TDC Ascenders, Young Guns, Young Ones Student Awards, Next Creative Leaders, ONE Screen Short Film Festival, 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.