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Filed under: Two UCOL Whanganui School of Design students will receive awards from the New York-based Type Directors Club for excellence in typography.
This year the Whanganui School of Design was selected as one of only five design schools internationally to participate in the Type Directors Club Scholarship programme.
The Type Directors Club or TDC is an international organization for those devoted to excellence in typography in all its forms. Created in 1946, the organization’s mission is to raise the standards of typography and related fields within the graphic arts. The club supports research and education, and disseminates information relating to typography.
One third year School of Design student will receive a scholarship consisting of a $1,000 award to be applied directly to their senior year tuition which begins September 2011 and concludes in May 2012. The scholarship, based solely on merit, will be awarded to a student whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography. A second student will be selected as a runner-up.
The scholarship student will also receive a one-year student membership in the TDC which includes receiving the TDC annual, Typography 32, and invitations to all TDC programmes.
TDC Executive Director Carol Wahler says: “As an organisation which sets the standards of typographical excellence in advertising, design and publishing, it is our hope that the scholarships we are offering will encourage talented graphic design students to develop a love for typography and an appreciation of the significance of typography in the design process.”
Whanganui UCOL’s Head of Creative Programmes Sally Jane DeSalazar says it is an honour for the Whanganui School of Design to be selected to take part in the Design Directors Club scholarship programme. “It is a tribute to the very high quality of our lecturers in typography and to the school’s international reputation,” she says.
The school will be the first New Zealand design school to receive a scholarship award.
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