The TDC Scholarship
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 2023 to May 2024.
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: April 30th
Please Note: The scholarship funds will be sent to the schools’ registrars in August 2023 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 is a scholarship for those junior going into their senior (in the penultimate 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.
- 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.
- One-year student membership for the TDC
- The scholarship funds will be sent to the schools’ registrars in August 2023 and entered into the tuition account of the scholarship recipients. Please note that the scholarship monies will not be paid directly to the students.