2024 Ascenders Competition

NEW YORK, July 31, 2024 — A pair of young creatives based in India are among the select group of winners from 11 countries in the 2024 Ascenders competition from the Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization.

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. The complete list of TDC 2024 Ascenders winners can be viewed here.

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. Event details and tickets are available here.

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 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.