ANNOUNCEMENT: GRANSHAN Competition 2009

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia announces the second International competition of type design:
GRANSHAN 2009

The Competition judging will take place in Yerevan from 05 to 09 of October 2009.

Categories of the Competition:
1. Armenian text fonts
2. Armenian School textbook and children’s book fonts
3. Armenian traditional text fonts
4. Latin text fonts
5. Cyrillic text fonts
6. Display fonts
Citizens of Armenia as well as foreign designers or organizations can take part in the competition. Both designers and producers of fonts can participate in the competition.The first prize winners will be awarded with 80 thousand Armenian drams ($250) for each category. The 2nd and 3rd prize winners will get diplomas and prizes (70 thousand and 50 thousand Armenian drams correspondingly) in each category.

To get more information you can visit http://www.granshan.org/ website.

The projects of the fonts must be sent to the Book Chamber of the Republic of Armenia. Address: 21, Gevorg Kochar str., Yerevan, 0009, RAPhone: (37410) 51 98 91, E-mail: armtype@xter.net Deadline for submission is: September 20, 2009

For further information contact the representative of the competition organizing committee Edik Ghabuzyan (to above address).Announcing the results of the Competition and rewarding the winners will take place in Yerevan.

The exact date will be announced later.
Org.commitee of the competitionGranshan-2009