Free Type Design Competition: Bienále Brno

So they pick one single winner?

hhp

For the record. There are other type design competitions that are free to enter. Two I have been personally involved in (either judged or organised) were Kyrillitsa'99 and bukva:raz!.

I'm having a hard time finding the past winning type designs online. This seems to be a common problem in type design competitions. I look forward to seeing the winners and maybe some other entries at ATypI Prague; I assume there will be some kind of gallery for them by then.

Hrant, there are 4 categories and Type Design is only one of them. The others are: Books, Magazine & Newspapers, and New Media.

Frantisek Storm was the Type category winner from 1996, I believe. I agree with John Butler that looking for past winning entries is not streight-forward. They do publish catalogues with the selected entries, though. The show will be open well until the ATypI, so you can make a trip from Prague to Brno, which is a lovely wine-growing area.

> make a trip from Prague to Brno

Sounds like a plan.
BTW, are Brno people very proud? Because I was in a small burger joint once and they had some photos from the Czech republic on the wall, so I asked the lady at the register if she was from Prague. She got angry and said "No! Brno!" :-)

hhp

Brno lies in the region called Moravia, squeezed between Bohemia (what is also clumsily referred to as Czechia) and Slovakia, and they don't like to be confused with the neibouring regions. But in general, as most of wine regions around the world, people are believed to be very friendly and warm. They are some modernist architectural treasures in Brno too, if it is something you are interested in.

Dear John,

Information on, and the showings of, the type designs that won at international competitions can be found on-line (it's just that often times they are hard to find, and you have to 'google' pretty hard for it). For example:

TDC;
Morisawa;
Linotype.

Kyrillitsa'99 never had a significant presence on-line, either before, or after the competition. Its results had been published in a catalogue of the winning entries (it was distributed to the attendees of the ATypI conference of 1999, held in Boston). They had been also posted on-line, and are still accessible.

As to bukva:raz!, posting its results on-line would be too much: there were one hundred winning entried selected by the jury. Instead, we had them published in a book, Language Culture Type--all 100 of them, with lots of additional information. We also showed the bukva:raz! winning entries in many cities of the world (Moscow, Rome, Vienna, New York, Newark, Oviedo). In fact, the bukva:raz! road show is still touring the globe.

"Language Culture Type" is a "hot buy" recommendation. Besides the great collection of winners there are 11 superb articles about non-Latin type.

The Kyrillitsa '99 booklet is nice too - I especially liked "Pertsov Skoropis" as what might be called a retro-progressive effort. Yes, I know that sounds strange...

hhp

Thanks for the links, Maxim! I'd never seen some of those Kyrillitsa winners before. I couldn't afford Rome, but I had LCT on order very early and treasure it. It's the best type compendium I've bought in recent years. Great design, great selection of winners, great articles.

[And no, I haven't gotten the Indie Fonts books yet.]

Just a small reminder that the deadline for submissions is next week - I hope to see your work in Brno. Cheers.