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THE RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION ‘GRANSHAN 2009’.

From 15 to 19 October the jury board of the International Type Design competition ‘Granshan 2009’ was considering entries submitted to the competition.
Judges:

 Miguel Sousa  "Adobe Systems" company, type designer.
 Fred Afrikyan architect, type designer.
 Ara Baghdasaryan State Academy of Art, type designer.
 Garegin Martirosian chief designer of “Printinfo” publishing house.
 Carolyn Puzzovio Principal lecturer in the School of Art & Design,
University of Lincoln, UK type designer.

To the competition were submitted 54 works from 12 countries in the following categories:

  • Armenian text fonts.
  • Armenian School textbook and children's book fonts.
  • Armenian traditional text fonts.
  • Latin text fonts.
  • Cyrillic text fonts.
  • Display fonts.

According to the decision of the jury board the works prize-winners are:

A. Armenian text fonts

 TypeFace Name Designer Country Prize  
 Aragast Edik Ghabuzyan Armenia I view
 Ara Rusa Ara Baghdasaryan Armenia II view
 Asparez Edik Ghabuzyan Armenia III view

B. Armenian School textbook and children's book fonts

 TypeFace Name Designer Country Prize  
 Parmani Edik Ghabuzyan Armenia I view
 Goga Angella Poghosova Armenia II view
 Tpagrakan Mariam Simonyan Armenia III view

C. Armenian traditional text fonts

 TypeFace Name Designer Country Prize 
 Notrgir Edik Ghabuzyan Armenia I view


D. Latin text fonts

 TypeFace Name Designer Country Prize 
 Karmina Sans

 Veronika Burian
 José Scaglione

 Great Britain
 I
 view
 Marat Ludwig Übele Germany II view
 Adelle
 Veronika Burian
 José Scaglione
 Great Britain III
 view


E. Cyrillic text fonts

 TypeFace Name Designer Country Prize  
 SkolarPro

 David Brezina

 Czech Republic I view
 Aragast Edik Ghabuzyan  Armenia II view
 Luba Hendrik Möller Germany III view

F. Display fonts

 TypeFace Name Designer Country Prize  
 VOGUE

 Henrik Kubel
 Inge Kubel

 Great Britain
 I
 view
 Notrgir Edik Ghabuzyan Armenia II view
 Diana Edik Ghabuzyan Armenia III view

The org. committee of the competition ‘Granshan 2009’ thanks all typeface designers who participated in the competition and hopes that they will take part in annual ‘Granshan’ competitions.
The org. committee expresses its gratitude to all the judges for their laborious work.
The org. committee congratulates all the prize-winners and wishes them fruitful and creative work in future.
About rewarding of the prize-winners will be announced later. 

 
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