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Ascenders 2018 Awards and Exhibition
TDC Salon, Wednesday, August 5, 2018. New York City.

An evening to honor the winners of TDC’s 2018 Ascenders competition, featuring nineteen designers under the age of 35, selected by the TDC’s Board of Directors, showcasing their remarkable achievements in typography, type design, and lettering.

Footage includes club president Paul Carlos announcing the winners, and imagery from the exhibitions.

Congratulations to the winners!

Samples of each designers work can be seen on the TDC website:
tdc.org/news/tdc-announces-the-2018-ascenders

Designers: Guillermo Vizzari (Argentina), Nathalia Cury and Alexandre Liindenberg (Brazil), Daniel Robitaille (Canada), Zhao Liu (China), Hrvoje Živčić (Croatia), Philipp Neumeyer (Denmark), Wael Morcos (Lebanon), Adriana Longoria (Mexico), Mateusz Machalski (Poland), Pedro Leal (Portugal), Mark De Winne (Singapore), Jaime Fernández and Albert Trulls (Spain), and from the United States — Kevin Cantrell, Tien-Min Liao, Nick Misani, Juan Carlos Pagan, Tré Seals, and Lynne Yun.

This group was selected from 230 outstanding designers from 39 countries, for the TDC’s first annual Ascenders competition.

Watch for announcements for the next competition, starting in the spring of every year.