Toshi Omagari is an award-winning typeface designer and Chairman of the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition.

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.

Together, GRANSHAN and Tehran Type Week reaffirm the importance of sustained, cross-script exchange, where type becomes a space for understanding, comparison, and collaboration.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Greek type design, form follows context - a principle Parachute® embraces as it bridges heritage and modernity. Each letter carries its own rhythm and intent, shaped not by imitation but by the dialogue between history, purpose, and design.