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We celebrate non-Latin typefaces and typography, design and communication that enable communities to develop culture and enterprises. The Non-Latin Typographic Project | Competition, Conferences, Exhibitions & Publications

14/06/2024

3 Days left for Granshan Talks and Ceremony »Common Characters«
Monday, 17 June
from 1:00 to 5:00 pm BSTReading, UK and on YouTube Live

And the Winner Is...?
This year marks the 13th edition of the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition.
Who will win this year's prizes?
Find out by joining us at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. We look forward to insightful talks, exciting encounters, and engaging conversations.
Free tickets are available now!
Can't make it in person? No problem—join us live online.
Registration link www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157. Schedule on https://granshan.com/e/common-characters

13/06/2024

4 Days left for Granshan Talks and Ceremony »Common Characters«
Aaron Amar and Lloyd Zapanta speaks on »Back to life: Baybayin as a revived Philippine script«
Monday, 17 June
from 1:00 to 5:00 pm BSTReading, UK and on YouTube Live

They both come from the Philippines and share a passion for type and graphic design
Aaron Amar is a graphic and type designer from Quezon City, Philippines. In addition to his work on creating 100% free, easy-to-use Baybayin typefaces over the past few years, he is recognized for demonstrating his patriotism through type design and promoting local design culture. This is evident in his creation of Jeepney signage-inspired typefaces, which are freely available for everyone to use, as well as his contributions to street art in Manila.

Lloyd Zapanta, a graphic designer and type-based illustrator from the eastern suburbs of Metro Manila, Philippines, gained initial recognition for his innovative approach to Baybayin typeface design. He has emerged as a significant figure in the local revival of the script. Zapanta’s objective is to develop more Filipino-themed typefaces inspired by everyday life and various local subcultures.

In their lecture they ask what is the exact purpose behind reviving a long-forgotten script? In this discussion, Aaron and Lloyd will delve into the current state of Baybayin, a pre-colonial script, and the sensitivities surrounding its present use. This dialogue aims to unveil the significance of revisiting a part of history and why it is crucial for Filipinos to acknowledge their pre-Latin past.

Join Aaron Amar and Lloyd Zapanta at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. Free tickets are available now!
Can't make it in person? No problem—join us live online.

Registration link www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157. Schedule on https://granshan.com/e/common-characters

12/06/2024

5 Days left for Granshan Talks and Ceremony »Common Characters«
Ana Sanikidze speaks on »Georgian type and harmonisation with Latin«
Monday, 17 June
from 1:00 to 5:00 pm BST
Reading, UK and on YouTube Live

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, Ana Sanikidze is a creative nerd with the keen interest in everything related to typography and type design. She graduated from the Reading University Type Design master’s program in 2021. Since April 2023 she is Assistant Professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). There she is teaching typography at the Visual Communications course and offers Georgian calligraphy and lettering workshops.

In her talk she will provide the necessary historical context about the three existing Georgian scripts and will cover essential developments of Mkhedruli and Mtavruli letters. But that’s not all: Ana Sanikidze will also share with us the process of harmonisation between Georgian and Latin script using Nocturno and Adapter typefaces as an example.

Join Ana Sanikidze at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. Free tickets are available now!
Can't make it in person? No problem—join us live online.

Registration link www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157. Schedule on https://granshan.com/e/common-characters

11/06/2024

6 Days left for Granshan Talks and Ceremony »Common Characters«
Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès speaks on »The inner structures and outer rhythms of contemporary Arab and Persian graphic design«
Monday, 17 June
from 1:00 to 5:00 pm BSTReading, UK and on YouTube Live

Born in Beirut Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès lives in the Netherlands, she is the Founding Director of the Khatt Foundation and Khatt Books publishers, in Amsterdam. The Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography is a cultural foundation and design research center dedicated to advancing design and typography in the Middle East, North Africa and their diaspora, and to building cross-cultural creative networks.
Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès holds degrees in graphic design and design history from Leiden University (PhD), Yale University (MFA), and Rhode Island School of Design (BFA). She specializes in typographic design research and Arab design history, and is the author of several seminal books on the topic. She works as independent researcher, writer, designer, curator and publisher.

In her talk Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès will present the traveling exhibition »Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms« that celebrates a selection of graphic and typographic works from the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region. She will explain the broad themes of the exhibition while highlighting the innovative approaches in lettering and typeface designs evident in the various graphic design projects on display.
The exhibition is on view at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G Hamburg) until 31 May 2025.

Join Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. Free tickets are available now!
Can't make it in person? No problem—join us live online.

Registration link www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157. Schedule on https://granshan.com/e/common-characters

10/06/2024

7 Days left for Granshan Talks and Ceremony »Common Characters«
Krista Radoeva speaks on »Diversifying Cyrillics«
Monday, 17 June
from 1:00 to 5:00 pm BST
Reading, UK and on YouTube Live

She gave the language-learning app Duolingo a new typographic face with a custom typeface, and has a passion for extremely decorative letterforms, which she is sketching in tiny notebooks 24/7. After five years as a senior typeface designer at British foundry Fontsmith, Krista Radoeva set up her own studio in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2020. There she specialises in fonts with Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, as well as teaching Cyrillic. Krista Radoeva studied BA Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and MA Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

What is her lecture »Diversifying Cyrillics« about? For decades, type designers and foundries have been working on Cyrillic for the Russian market only. So what happens now? Now that it's finally time to realise that Cyrillic was never synonymous with Russian, let's talk about localising and extending Cyrillic. The talk will provide some historical context on how certain characters came to be, show examples, and provide useful tips and resources for working with a richer and more diverse Cyrillic character set.

Join Krista Radoeva at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. Free tickets are available now!
Can't make it in person? No problem—join us live online.

Registration link www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157. Schedule on https://granshan.com/e/common-characters

08/06/2024

»The land in between – Orient meets Occident, Script meets Identity, Yesterday meets Tomorrow« eight days a week study trip to Armenia from 5 to 13 September 2024.
More: https://eightdaw.com/zeitlaeufte/8daw-study-trip-to-armenia

When it comes to the future of education, who would think of a small country in the Caucasus? In the intermediate kingdom of Armenia, characterised to this day by 2,000 years of conquest and occupation, the most amazing ideas are emerging around the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies. How can children really learn something for life alongside school ... and at the same time fundamentally change a society that is still characterised by the USSR/Russia? Why was this country one of the first to establish a state religion and a completely new writing system in the first centuries after Christ? It is certainly not only due to the outstanding Armenian brandy or the legend that wine actually has its roots here ...

On this study trip, we visit friends and colleagues who show us their everyday private and professional lives. A search for traces between the catacombs of the Matenadaran State Library, the TUMO digitisation project for the preservation of Armenian cultural sites and Lavash bread baked in earth ovens.

A cooperation event of the newsletter magazine »eight days a week - Streifzüge durch den Wandel (short: 8daw)« with the TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, the GRANSHAN Foundation e.V. and the Typographische Gesellschaft München e.V.

07/06/2024

10 Days left for Granshan Talks and Ceremony
Special Session with Borna Izadpanah and Gerry Leonidas
»Stories of adaptation and divergence: two scripts, one model of seeing«
Monday, 17 June
from 1:00 to 5:00 pm BST
Reading, UK

They love and live typography – both at Reading University. Borna Izadpanah is Lecturer in Typography & Graphic Communication, Gerry Leonidas is Professor of Typography.

Their session »Stories of adaptation and divergence: two scripts, one model of seeing« brings together two distinct collections, of Greek and Arabic typography. The objects span five centuries of printing in the two scripts, and capture the challenges in typesetting in unfamiliar or misunderstood scripts. The printed objects reveal the relationship of each language community with local and external authority, and the reception or rejection of imported notions of progress. It reveals the challenges of capturing manuscript traditions, and adapting written forms to technologies for which they did not constitute the originating specification. The comparison of printed texts across genres and time allows a rare insight into the pressure for conformity and continuity imposed by typography, and reveals the ways that divergence was enabled to maintain critical variations in representation. It also raises questions about the conventions we are currently familiar with: how can we learn from examining archival material to question decisions in our digital environments today?

Join Borna Izadpanah and Gerry Leonidas at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. Free tickets are available now!

Registration link www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157. Schedule on https://granshan.com/e/common-characters

06/06/2024

11 Days left for Granshan Talks and Ceremony
Golnar Kat Rahmani is the Keynote Speaker
She speaks on »Type & Politics«
Monday, 17 June
from 1:00 to 5:00 pm BST
Reading, UK and on YouTube Live

She likes open words and is committed not only to the aesthetic and functional aspects of typography, but also to the political ones. Creative director and lecturer Golnar Kat Rahmani was born in Iran and educated at the University of Tehran and later at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Arts. In Berlin she runs her Studio Golnar Katrahmani in the fields of type design, multilingual editorial design and typography.

Since 2018, she has been deeply immersed in projects related to »Type & Politics«, where she endeavors to detach Arabic and Persian type from their ideological and political negative circumstances, aiming to cultivate an appreciation for the beauty and other aspects of these letters in multi-cultural societies, due to the hope of a peaceful coexistence.

Join Golnar Kat Rahmani at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. Free tickets are available now!
Can't make it in person? No problem—join us live online.

Registration link www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157. Schedule on https://granshan.com/e/common-characters

29/05/2024

And the Winner Is...?
At the last GRANSHAN Conference and Ceremony in Munich, Kostas Bartsokas received the First Prize in the South Asian Script Display Typefaces Category, much to the delight of attendees, including Gerry Leonidas.
This year marks the 13th edition of the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition, and we're thrilled to announce another exciting GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony, themed »Common Characters«.
Who will win this year's prizes?
Find out by joining us at the GRANSHAN Talks and Ceremony on Monday, June 17, at Reading University. Free tickets are available now!
Can't make it in person? No problem—join us live online.

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/common-characters-registration-906699682157

We look forward to insightful talks, exciting encounters, and engaging conversations.

© Michael Bundscherer

25/05/2024

The GRANSHAN Conference 2022, held in Munich, Germany, at the Literaturhaus, focused on Typedesign and Typography. The Q&A sessions added a refreshing diversity to the discussions. ©️ Michael Bundscherer

24/05/2024

Pavlo Kochan captured some amazing guests at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022. The event was filled with insightful discussions and innovative ideas shared by industry experts. Participants had the opportunity to network and learn from each other, creating a dynamic and engaging atmosphere. Overall, the conference was a huge success, thanks to the hard work and dedication of everyone involved.

23/05/2024

The 2022 GRANSHAN Conference took place at Literaturhaus München as part of the Munich Creative Business Week. The participants enjoyed a captivating and informative session at the event. Photo: Michael Bundscherer

22/05/2024

Save the Date to join us for a day of inspiration and celebration at GRANSHAN Talks & Ceremony!

Monday, 17 June
01:00 PM to 5:00 PM BST
Reading, UK and on YouTube Live

Don’t miss out—save the date or go to our registration site directly. More information will follow.

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/906699682157

21/05/2024

Ruben Malayan participated in the GRANSHAN Conference 2022, where he delivered one of the outstanding talks at Literaturhaus Munich. Photo: Michael Bundscherer

12/05/2024

At the heart of the bustling GRANSHAN Conference 2022, the stellar media team was in full swing, leveraging their expertise to ensure everything ran smoothly. Unseen by many, the background work is often crucial. Photo by Michael Bundscherer

11/05/2024

Boris Kochan, our Co-Chairman and President of GRANSHAN Foundation e.V. gave an engaging presentation at the GRANSHAN Conference in 2014. Photo: Michael Bundscherer

10/05/2024

Pavlo Kochan spotted and photographed many great guests during the amazing type design talks at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022 in Literaturhaus Munich.

05/05/2024

Nostalgia – Pretty good times & types with a cute dog and our lovely guests at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022 in Munich, Germany.

04/05/2024

Nostalgia – Pretty good times & types with Vaibhav Singh at the GRANSHAN Conference 2014 in Munich, Germany.

Photo by Michael Bundscherer

03/05/2024

We're thrilled! The jury is hard at work deliberating on the winners of the 13th GRANSHAN Competition. In this image, rays of sunlight stream through the Literaturhaus München, illuminating the works of past winners displayed on its walls.

We look forward to sharing more details with you soon!

02/05/2024

Rupali Steinmeyer delivered a mesmerizing presentation at GRANSHAN Conference 2014, captivating the audience with her insights on typography. Her talk left a lasting impression, highlighting the importance of design in communication. Photo: Michael Bundscherer

10/04/2024

Remembering Santi Lawrachawee at GRANSHAN Conference 2014, where he gave an amazing speech surrounded by incredible guests and fellow type designers. Thank you for the inspiration and enriching discussion. © Michael Bundscherer

05/04/2024

At the GRANSHAN Conference 2022, Literaturhaus Munich was transformed into a hub for exploring future forms of international and intercultural communication and collaboration. It served as a space where script and typography were analyzed as crucial elements for global interaction and a means of fostering identity. ©️Michael Bundscherer

03/04/2024

The atmosphere in the beautiful hall at Literaturhaus München is becoming more vibrant as more people arrive for the GRANSHAN Conference 2022.

02/04/2024

Sonja Knecht's presentation at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022, as captured in the photo by Pavlo Kochan, was truly amazing. During her talk, she delved into the realm of typographical and linguistic possibilities for creating gender-sensitive texts. Her insights shed light on how language and design can be used to promote inclusivity and diversity.

28/03/2024

Michael Bundscherer captured Oliver Linke, Boris Kochan, Anette Lenz, Lisa Braun & Nadine Vicentini on the Podium at GRANSHAN Conference 2022 (from left to right). Anette showcased the amazing MCBW posters that she designed and held the final talk at the conference.

27/03/2024

Ruben Malayan captured by Pavlo Kochan during the GRANSHAN Conference 2022.

26/03/2024

In his insightful presentation at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022, Prof. Chang S*k Kim excavated the rich history of the Korean writing system.

25/03/2024

Timothy Donaldson in the process, 2014.
Photo by Michael Bundscherer

19/03/2024

Attendees of the 2022 GRANSHAN Conference were greeted by a wall of posters showcasing the winners of the competition, along with a friendly bear mascot adding to the amazing location at Literaturhaus Munich.

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Videos

GRANSHAN Conference 360 II.mov

Nostalgia – Pretty good times & types with a cute dog and our lovely guests at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022 in Munich, Germany.

GRANSHAN HALL.mov

The atmosphere in the beautiful hall at Literaturhaus München is becoming more vibrant as more people arrive for the GRANSHAN Conference 2022.

The Evolution of Hangul_ King Sejong and the Birth of the Korean Writing System.mp4

In his insightful presentation at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022, Prof. Chang Sik Kim excavated the rich history of the Korean writing system.

GRANSHAN Conference 360 cam.mov

The Power of Visual Storytelling_ Unlocking Creativity through Photography and Film.mp4

In a talk at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022, Ruben Malayan highlighted the crucial role of storytelling in the visual arts. You can find the entire video on the GRANSHAN YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7H9WYrPo90

From Bastille to Success_ Embracing Change in My Atelier.mp4

Today is International Women's Day. For this special day, we have Anette Lenz delivering a powerful talk at the GRANSHAN Conference 2022, emphasizing that change is possible. Anette's message serves as a reminder that progress is achievable through collective action and determination. #inspireinclusion

GRANSHAN: Competition, Conferences, Exhibitions and Publications

Today we will announce the winner of the GRANSHAN Competition 2016 in a press conference in Yerevan together with the Armenian ministry of culture. And Edik and I will present a new short movie about GRANSHAN ... Here you will find a very rough sneak preview filmed from the screen of my notebook.