The Ezhishin Scholarship is new this year and created in followup to last Fall’s successful Ezhishin Type Drives Culture conference, the first-ever panel and workshop event dedicated to Native North American typography.

The $5,000 scholarship, funded by Google, is for Native American and First Nation individuals in the US and Canada, respectively, who exemplify a creative practice that explores typography, type design, or relevant linguistic work.

In addition to the financial awards, the scholarship winner along with an honorable mention, will receive a one-year TDC student membership, which includes a copy of the TDC Annual Typography 44, and discounted or complimentary admission for all TDC events.

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 penultimate 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 2023. In addition to the financial awards, the scholarship winner along with an honorable mention, will receive a one-year TDC student membership, which includes a copy of the TDC Annual Typography 44, and discounted or complimentary admission for all TDC events.

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 penultimate 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 2023. In addition to the financial awards, the scholarship winner along with an honorable mention, will receive a one-year TDC student membership, which includes a copy of the TDC Annual Typography 44, and discounted or complimentary admission for all TDC events.

Every year, we honor up to seven students with the TDC Scholarship, a $1,000 award recognizing their achievements in and appreciation for typography in design. Winners are selected by the TDC Scholarship Committee, which receives nominations from design schools in the US and abroad.