Two India-based creatives are among the select group of winners from 11 countries in the 2024 Ascenders competition from the Type Directors Club (TDC), the world’s leading typography organisation.
Ascenders, which celebrates typographers, lettering artists, and type designers ages 35 and under, is the world’s premier portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its versatile forms, and the inspiring designers — individuals or duos — who are elevating the medium.
Winners for 2024 based in India are Namrata Goyal, a type designer in Alwar, and Maithili Shingre, a type designer at Ek Type Mumbai.
Notes a communique: “This year’s Ascenders, selected by an esteemed jury of typography and type design professionals, join prominent past winners including Au Chon Hin (2022), Kevin Cantrell (2018), Roxane Gataud (2022), Gemma O’Brien (2022), Juan Carlos Pagan (2018), Tré Seals (2018), and others.”
TDC, part of The One Club for Creativity, will host a reception for the 2024 Ascenders and scholarship winners on August 14, 2024, at the club’s gallery space in New York.