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Granshan 2011

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Typographic Society Munich (tgm --- Typographische Gesellschaft München) organized Granshan 2011, The Fourth International Type Design Competition for Non-Latin Typefaces, which was created especially for Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek fonts. Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan are the big bosses. The jury consisted of the two big bosses, plus Veronika Burian, Thomas Phinney, Manvel Shmavonyan, Panos Vassiliou and Emil Yakupov. They were aided for Armenian text typefaces by Fred Afrikyan, Gagik Martirosyan, and Aram Megrabyan. For Cyrillic, the help came from Gayane Baghdasaryan, Dmitry Kirsanov, and Vladimir Yefimov. Finally, the Greek rescue subcommittee consisted of Konstantine Giotas, Klimis Mastoridis, and Kostas Aggeletakis.

The grand prize (1000 Euors) was won by Alexandra Korolkova for Belladonna. The other results are as follows:

• Armenian text typefaces category
  • 1st prize - not awarded
  • 2nd prize - Aregak: Hrachuhi Grigoryan, Armenia
  • 3rd prize - Emrys: Ben Jones, UK
• Cyrillic text typefaces category
  • 1st prize - William: Maria Doreuli, Russia
  • 2nd prize - Permian: Ilya Ruderman, Russia
  • 3rd prize - Circe: Alexandra Korolkova, Russia
• Greek text typefaces category
  • 1st prize - Emrys: Ben Jones, UK
  • 2nd prize - Artigo: Joana Maria Correia da Silva, Portugal
  • 3rd prize - Foxhill: Hanna Donker, UK
• Display category
  • 1st prize - Belladonna: Alexandra Korolkova, Russia
  • 2nd prize - Fry: Oleg Macujev, Russia
  • 3rd prize - Meteor Script: Ilya Ruderman, Russia

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