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Granshan 2012

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Typographic Society Munich (tgm --- Typographische Gesellschaft München) are organizing Granshan 2012, The Fifth International Type Design Competition for Non-Latin Typefaces, which was created especially for Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Indic (i.e., Devanagari, Bengali, and Tamil only) and Arabic fonts. Exceptionally, this year, Latin fonts designed in the last ten years can also be nominated.

Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan are the big bosses. The jury consists of Timothy Donaldson, Otmar Hoefer, Ahmed Mansour, Fiona Ross, Manvel Shmavonyan, Panos Vassiliou, and Vladimir Yefimov. There are five expert panels:

• Armenian text typefaces category: Ara Baghdasaryan, Gagik Martirosyan, Aram Megrabyan.
• Arabic text typefaces category: Mamoun Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan, Nehad Nadam.
• Cyrillic text typefaces category: Gayane Baghdasaryan, Dmitry Kirsanov, Tagir Safayev.
• Greek text typefaces category: Konstantine Giotas, Klimis Mastoridis, Kostas Aggeletakis.
• Indic text typefaces category: Ravi Pooviah, Mahendra Patel, Graham Shaw.

Impossible to find the list of winners.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Armenian fonts ⦿ Past type competitions ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿ Indic language fonts ⦿ Type design in India ⦿ Bengali fonts ⦿ Tamil fonts ⦿