GRANSHAN Road Show and Celebration in Georgia and Armenia
The Georgian and Armenian winners of the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition were delighted and proud to receive their awards on site in Tbilisi and Yerevan.
News, findings and blog posts—Insights is where the GRANSHAN editorial team shares interesting facts, views and curiosities from the global world of script, type design and typography with a special focus on all matters beyond Latin. Various authors from the community get a word here, as do experts on special topics and selected professionals from other sectors.
Exhibition in Yerevan
Exhibition of the winning works from the 13th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition and more ...
Common Characters: GRANSHAN Talks & Ceremony in Reading
A short review by Antje Dohmann about the event on 17 June on-site at the Typographic Departement of the University of Reading and online on YouTube
Ana Sanikidze — Georgian type: Harmonisation with Latin
Are you curious how a harmonious interplay between Georgian and Latin script can look like?
Dr Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès — Persian Graphic Design Exhibition: Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms
Dr Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès explains the exhibition and draws attention to the innovative approaches to the design of letters and typefaces in the various graphic design projects on display.
Golnar Katrahmani — Type and Politics
»How can Arabic script be seen as something other than problematic?« asks Golnar Katrahmani programmatically. Her answer: for example, through
Krista Radoeva — Diversifying Cyrillics
Many of us equate Cyrillic with Russian. But that’s not true. Krista Radoeva tells us that it’s finally time to …
Lloyd Zapanta and Aaron Amar — Back to life: Baybayin as a revived Philippine script
Have you ever heard about Baybayin? is one of the precolonial writing systems used by early Filipinos.
Nino Jishkariani — About Georgian as new GRANSHAN Competition Script Group
Georgia may be a small country, but it has an ancient and rich culture. It is a particular pleasure that the country is participating in the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition for the first time.
Results 13th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition
Here is a short textual overview of the winners of the 13th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition – the winning works are be shown with pictures in our GRAND EXHIBITION in the menu item Exhibition on our website.
Study Trip Armenia
The GRANSHAN Foundation is co-organiser of a study trip to Armenia from 5 to 13 September 2024
GRANSHAN Statement on our attitude
GRANSHAN fosters a global typographic community valuing cultural diversity and mutual respect. Veronika Burian and Toshi Omagari will now manage the Cyrillic Script Group. GRANSHAN stands for respect and solidarity.