A hairdresser for letters
Sovichet Tep lives in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh. With his studio Anagata, he specializes in typeface design and brand identity.
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.
Three scripts in one
Toshi Omagari is an award-winning typeface designer and Chairman of the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition.
Media Categories & Script Groups in the GRANSHAN Bloom Award 2025/2026
The GRANSHAN Bloom Award is built around two pillars: Media Categories and Script Groups. Together, they ensure every entry is judged both within its creative context and its cultural-linguistic context.
Tehran Type Week 2025 × GRANSHAN: Advancing Dialogue in Persian and Arabic Type
Together, GRANSHAN and Tehran Type Week reaffirm the importance of sustained, cross-script exchange, where type becomes a space for understanding, comparison, and collaboration.
Where Scripts Bloom: The GRANSHAN Bloom Award 2025/2026
The world’s first international competition for Communication Design Beyond Latin - a celebration of the world’s writing systems and the designers who bring them to life.
TRIO ASIA in Nagoya: Peace Posters Across Japan, Korea & Taiwan with GRANSHAN
From 10-21 December 2025, Nagoya’s International Design Center (Design Gallery, NADYA PARK) hosts the next stop of TRIO ASIA, presenting 100 posters on the theme of peace created by designers from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
IP Protection as an Art: TypeType’s Flexible Licensing Control Strategy
Drawing on their own experience, the specialists at TypeType explain how type foundries and designers can stop unlicensed use of their products and get additional revenue while avoiding reputational risk.
A historically-informed design perspective
Titus Nemeth is a typographic designer and historian from Vienna with some twenty years of experience in the field. He works on the intersection of design and historical research with a focus on Arabic and multilingual typography.
Armenian Script × Typography: Edik Ghabuzyan to Speak at the National Hangeul Museum
On 30 November, the National Hangeul Museum in Seoul will host a special lecture titled “Armenian Script × Typography”, featuring Edik Ghabuzyan, co-founder, longterm vice president of GRANSHAN, now retired.
More Education and Infrastructure
Khajag Apelian is a lettering artist as well as a graphic and type designer who works with Armenian and Arabic scripts. He moves between type design, research, and education, is interested in how design can keep cultural practices alive and relevant.
Artist + Astrophysicist + Architect = Arabic Type Design
In our conversation, Lara shares her path from architecture to type design, her insights into the beauty and complexity of Arabic script, and her vision for the future of Arabic typography.
Tracing the Anatomy of Letters
Every script carries a body, a head, a spine, a rhythm. This insight traces how Devanagari and Arabic anatomy reveal the deep connection between language, craft, and visual logic.