GRANSHAN Competition 2016: Call for Entries
We are very proud to announce the 9th international Non-Latin Typeface Competition GRANSHAN 2016.
From now on type designers, manufacturers or publishers have the chance to submit typefaces or type families in three new main categories. On recognition of the relevance of multiscript we widened the possibilities of entries. Please find detailed information below.
The international jury under the chair of Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan will take place during the ATypI Conference mid-September in Warsaw. The other jury members are Chang Sik Kim, Gerry Leonidas, Haytham Nawar, Angela Poghosowa, Fiona Ross, Adi Stern, Alexey Vanyashin, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, Liu Zhao.
Please take care of the deadline for entries: August 31st 2016.
The announcement of the winners will be latest end of October 2016.
Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan
GRANSHAN Competition: Turn
After eight years of growth, the GRANSHAN Competition is established as the definitive forum for non- Latin typeface design, covering a wide range of scripts for communities on a global scale. In response to this position we are changing the structure of the competition to recognize the growing significance of communication within a script / language combination, as well as across multiple scripts.
From the very first discussions about its foundation, the GRANSHAN Competition has aimed to promote awareness of individual scripts: from the most widely used, to scripts in use by small communities or even under threat.
At the same time, we are aware that global communication increasingly demands typefaces that cover combinations of scripts. For example, typefaces for Chinese documents require a suitable Latin complement. And significant applications like wayfinding require multiple coordinated scripts: the Korean capital orientation system places Hangul alongside Chinese, Japanese and English texts. Armenian documentations often need to use texts in Latin too.
To foreground excellence in design in these areas we are establishing three new main categories for the ninth GRANSHAN competition in 2016:
1st new main category: non-Latin
This category is exclusively for non-Latin scripts, with no Latin complements.
Designers will be expected to declare if the typeface is designed for one ore more of the following possible uses:
- as a text typeface
- as a headline typeface
- as a display typeface
Designers can submit typefaces that span these categories. Entries are possible in following scripts:
- Arabic (text, headline or display)
- Armenian (text, headline or display)
- Chinese – traditional and simplified (text, headline or display)
- Cyrillic (text, headline or display)
- Greek (text, headline or display)
- Hebrew (text, headline or display)
- Indian (text, headline or display)
- Korean (text, headline or display)
- Thai (text, headline or display)
- and all other scripts only as display typefaces
2nd new main category: non-Latin–Latin
This category is especially for typefaces that have been developed with a specific combination of a non- Latin and a Latin version, which are intended to be combined in use.
If there are multiple non-Latin complements, each combination must be submitted separately.
In the judging process we will first look at the quality of each non-Latin script, then apply the same criteria to the Latin part, and finally judge the quality of the combination.
3rd new main category: Multiscript non-Latin
This category is for typefaces with at least two non-Latin complements intended to work together, with no reference to an accompanying Latin. We will first review the excellence of every script in itself, and subsequently the quality of the combination. In this category Latin entries won’t be accepted. If the submission is intended to include other than in category 1 listed scripts, GRANSHAN requires information about the supplemented scripts latest 1 July 2016 to provide the judgment on highest level (entries@granshan.org).
Submission procedure and deadline
Please submit your entry by 31st of August 2016 to the following Email address: entries@granshan.org. Any person who participated in designing, producing or distributing the typeface is eligible to enter said typeface. Members of the org. committee, members of the jury board and experts are not allowed to submit their works to the competition.
All type designers from all parts of the world are invited to take part in the competition. Eligible are all typefaces that have been designed or digitized after 2014 and meet the competition requirements. All submitted fonts must comply with and use the Unicode encoding system.
In each of the three main categories there will be three certificates awarded. In addition, the grand prize GRANSHAN 2016, awarded by the jury, includes a money prize of 1,000 Euros. Printed examples of the winning entries will be published in a documentation designed by Typographic Society Munich e.v. (tgm). The winners will be announced at a press confere
Detailed Information
The Jury
Chairmen of the jury:
Edik Ghabuzyan, Head of Department of Creating and Keeping Armenian Fonts at the National Book Chamber of Armenia, consultant for Adobe Systems, Armenia.
Boris Kochan, CEO KOCHAN & PARTNER, Past President of tgm – Typographische Gesellschaft München (Typographic Society Munich), Germany.
The members of the jury board:
Gerry Leonidas, UK
Fiona Ross, UK
Liu Zhao, China
Angela Poghosova, Armenia
Adi Stern, Israel
Haytham Nawar, Egypt
Aleksey Vanyashin, Russia
Anuthin Wongsunkakong, Thailand
Chang Sik Kim, USA
The list of experts:
As the members of the jury panel cannot be experts in all categories the organizing committee has decided to invite experts for most of the categories. We shall send all the works in certain text typefaces category to the experts, they will consider them and write their comments for every work and send them to the heads of the organizing committee, Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan. The members of the jury will take into account all the comments when making final decision in choosing the prize winners.
- Armenian text typefaces category:
Vahan Balasanyan
Garegin Martirosyan
Ruben Malayan - Arabic text typefaces category:
Ahmed Mansour
Reza Abedini
Damoon Khanjanzadeh - Chinese text typefaces category:
Min Wang
Curt Huang
Zhiwei Zhu - Cyrillic text typefaces category:
Aleksandra Korolkova
Tagir Safaev
Dmitry Kirsanov - Greek text typefaces category:
John Hudson
Klimis Mastoridis
Irene Vlachou - Hebrew text typefaces category:
Liron Lavi Turkenich
Yehuda Hofshi
Anat Katsir - Indic text typefaces category:
Ravi Pooviah
Rathna Ramanathan
Graham Shaw - Korean text typefaces category:
Geumho Seok
Jae-joon Han
Byung-in Kang
Judging procedure and criteria
- Text typefaces are conceived appropriate for their use in text
- Glyph shapes are drawn properly, even in detail
- Glyphs and overall concept comply to the particularities of the script system
- Proportions are well-balanced
- Spacings and Kernings are applied properly
- The design shows a certain amount of originality
- In multiscript typefaces, script systems are harmonised without disturbing the genuine character of the scripts.
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