The Jury

Chairmen of the jury:

Edik Ghabuzyan, Head of the Department of Creating and Saving Armenian Fonts at the National Book Chamber of Armenia, Armenia.
Boris Kochan, President of theTypographic Society Munich (tgm – Typographische Gesellschaft München), Germany.

The members of the jury board:

Gerry Leonidas, UK
Mamoun Ahmed, Sudan
Carolyn Puzzovio, UK
Fiona Ross, UK
Manvel Shmavonyan, Armenia
Robert Strauch, Germany
Keith Tam, Hong Kong

The organizing committee of Granshan regretfully inform you on death of the great type designer Vladimir Yefimov.
We bring the condolence to his family and relatives.

The list of experts:

As the members of the jury panel cannot be experts in all categories the organizing committee has decided to invite three experts for each category. We shall send all the works in certain text typefaces category to the experts, they will consider them and write their comments and opinions 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,
  Gagik Martirosyan,
  Ruben Malayan.
• Arabic text typefaces category:
  Mamoun Ahmed,
  Mohamed Hassan,
  Nihad Nadam.
• Chinese text typefaces category:
  Kenneth Kwok,
  Zhiwei Zhu,
  Sammy Or.
• Cyrillic text typefaces category:
  Maria Doreuli,
  Igor Dudnik,
  Ilya Ruderman.
• Greek text typefaces category:
  John Hudson
  Klimis Mastoridis
  Irene Vlachou
• Indic text typefaces category:
  Ravi Pooviah,
  Rathna Ramanathan,
  Graham Shaw

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.