Press-release Results of Modern Cyrillic 2014 International Type Design Competition The jury assembled on 25 and 26 November at 47 Nakhimovsky Prospect, Moscow. The Organising Committee would like to report that the 2014 competition far exceeded previous events in terms of both the number of submissions and the geographic footprint of participants. As of 24h00 FJT November 14, 2014 the final count of the entries received was 356 (95 Text, 241 Display, and 20 Type System), from 26 countries: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, USA. We thank all the entrants in the competition, and wish them the best of luck. Twenty-nine type projects were selected by the jury to be awarded with honorary diplomas for excellence in type design. Each member of the jury was also allowed to give a special mention to one of these projects based on personal preference. The Winners Display Typefaces Adobe Hand B: Robert Slimbach, Adobe, USA, 2012 Amalta: Vera Evstafieva, Infonta, Russia, 2011 Artcity: Artem Yakovlev, Russia, 2014 Bickham Script Pro 3: Richard Lipton, Adobe, USA (Jovica Veljović’s choice) Capline: Jeremy Tankard, Jeremy Tankard Typography, United Kingdom, 2013 Checkpoint: Michael Parson, Typogama, Switzerland, 2010 Delgado: Roman Shukin, Gaslight TF, Russia, 2012 (Natalia Vasilyeva’s choise) Lenta: Irina Krivosheeva, Russia, 2014 Manicotti: David Jonathan Ross, The Font Bureau, USA, 2014 (John Hudson’s choice) Oktiabrjskaya: Nadezda Geringer, Germany, 2014 (Konstantin Golovchenko’s choice) Sapiens: Elena Alexeeva, Russia Siberian: Oleg Matsuev, Matsuev Type Foundry, Russia, 2013 Sloop: Richard Lipton, The Font Bureau, USA Trajan Sans: Robert Slimbach, Adobe, USA, 2011 Wary: Valery Zaveryaev, Gaslight TF, Russia, 2012 Woodkit: Ondrej Jób, Typotheque, Netherlands, 2014 (Yuri Gordon’s choice) Text Typefaces Adobe Text: Robert Slimbach, Adobe, USA, 2010 (Danila Vorobiev’s choice) Chetwerg: Andrey Belonogov, Russia, 2014 (Dmitry Aronov’s choice) Chiavettieri: Nikola Kostić, Kostić Type Foundry, Serbia, 2014 FF Meta Condensed: Erik Spiekermann, Monotype/FontFont, Germany, 2010 Glober: Ivan Petrov, Svetoslav Simov, Fontfabric, Bulgaria, 2014 Marco: Toshi Omagari, Monotype, United Kingdom (Alexandra Korolkova’s choice) Suisse Int’l Condensed Cyrillic: Alexei Vanyashin, Alexei Vanyashin Typography, Switzerland, 2013 Type Systems: Text & Display Input: David Jonathan Ross, The Font Bureau, USA, 2014 (Gayaneh Bagdasaryan’s choice) Mamontov Grotesk: Oleg Matsuev, Matsuev Type Foundry, Russia, 2014 Napoleon: Yana Kutyina, Russia, 2013–2014 Permian: Ilya Ruderman, Russia, 2009 RIA Typeface: Yury Ostromentsky, Custom Fonts, Russia, 2013 Sitka: Matthew Carter, Microsoft, USA, 2013 The Emil Yakupov prize from ParaType and a lifetime licence certificate from FontLab were awarded to Yana Kutyina and Andrei Belonogov. Congratulations to the winners for their well-deserved awards! On 30 November, the winners’ works were presented at international type conference Serebro Nabora in Moscow’s Central House of Architecture, 7 Granatny Lane. The award ceremony was held the same evening, hosted by jury chair Maxim Zhukov. There are plans to release a catalogue of the winning typefaces and organise an exhibition based on the results of the competition. The organising committee would like to express its sincere gratitude to the members of the jury, the contestants and everyone else who made this competition possible. Organisers Phone: +7 (495) 980-27-06 E-mail: [email protected] www.moderncyrillic.org