Gretel, Daniel Furmhoff Design, and Ek Type Win TDC71 Best of Discipline Honors

May. 14, 2025

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced the entries selected as Best of Discipline and Judges’ Choice winners in the prestigious TDC71 Competition, 

The announcement was made at a special TDC71 winners exhibition held during The One Club for Creativity’s Creative Week 2025 in New York.

TDC71 top Best of Discipline winners are: 

• Best of Communication Design: "New York City FC Branding" for New York City FC by Gretel Brooklyn, working with Frere-Jones Type Brooklyn
• Best of Lettering: "Stanford d.School Yearbook 2023" for Stanford University d.School by Daniel Frumhoff Design New York
• Best of Type Design: "Naatak" by Ek Type Mumbai

This year’s esteemed global jury of leading professionals In the field from around the world also made their personal TDC71 Judges’ Choice selections from among all of this year’s winners.  

The “best of” and Judges’ Choice selections will be highlighted in TDC’s Typography 46: The World’s Best Typography® Annual (available soon), alongside comments from each judge about why they felt the work deserved special honor.

TDC71 Certificate winners were announced last month, with Pentagram New York leading the way with seven coveted wins. The New York Times Magazine New York has six winning entries, followed by Typotheque The Hague with five.

Overall, the jury awarded 170 TDC71 Certificates of Typographic Excellence – 104 in Communication Design, 37 in Type Design, and 29 in Lettering – to entrants from 26 countries.

A showcase of all TDC71 Certificate winners can be viewed here.

Jury Presidents for this year’s TDC71 competition were three members of the TDC Advisory Board: Min Lew, managing partner, ECD, Base Design in New York, for Communication Design; David Jon Walker, principal, Rhealistic, New Haven; Professor of Art in Graphic Design, Yale University, for Lettering; and Sahar Afshar, type designer, founding partner, Dogray Type Foundry in London for Type Design.

All TDC71 winners receive a Certificate of Typographic Excellence and digital seal certifying their work is among the world’s best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, and showcased in eight exhibitions that travel to museums, schools and design organizations around the world.