Modern Cyrillic 2019

Winners

SHTPS369

Adapter

Author

William Montrose, Sláva Jevčinová, David Březina

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Type system

ATPS253

Arnold

Author

Philipp Neumeyer

Year of creation

2018

Typeface category

Display

SHTPS339

Avory

Author

Sláva Jevčinová

Year of creation

2017

Typeface category

Type system

TTP82

Baldufa

Author

Ferran Milan, Pilar Cano (Letterjuice)

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Text

ATP180

CSTM Xprmntl 02

Author

Yuri Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

AEPS181

CSTM Xprmntl 03

Author

Yuri Ostromenstky (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

AEP139

Curbe

Author

Olga Pankova

Year of creation

2019

choice of Denis Serebryakov

Typeface category

Display

ATPS159

Dala Floda

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Paul Barnes (Commercial Type)

Cyrillic part author

Ilya Ruderman (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2016

Typeface category

Display

SHZP238

Delvig

Author

Danila Vorobiev, Vladimir Pavlikov, Andrey Belonogov, Yana Kutyina

Year of creation

2018

Typeface category

Type system

SHTPS160

Druk

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Berton Hasebe (Commercial Type)

Cyrillic part author

Ilya Ruderman, Yuri Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2017

Typeface category

Type system

TTP149

FS Brabo Pro

Author

Fernando Mello, Pedro Arilla, Krista Radoeva

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Text

AEP221

Gamos

Author

Yulia Baranova

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

AZPS263

Harbin

Author

Oleg Macujev

Year of creation

2018

Typeface category

Display

SHTPS240

IBM Plex

Author

Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Aleksandra Samulenkova

Year of creation

2017

Typeface category

Type system

ATP251

Kalamos

Author

Michael Gorenshtein

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

ATP165

Kazimir

Author

Ilya Ruderman, Yuri Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2015

Typeface category

Display

TTP264

Lapture

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Tim Ahrens

Cyrillic part author

Oleg Macujev

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Text

ATPS109

Le Murmure

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Jérémy Landes

Cyrillic part author

Alex Slobzheninov

Year of creation

2018 (Latin), 2019 (Cyrillic)

Typeface category

Display

ATPS74

Nostra

Author

Lucas Decroix

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

AEP205

Novgorod

Author

Marina Maryina

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

TEP287

Old Universal

Author

Ivan Arbatsky

Year of creation

2016

Fontlab special prize

Typeface category

Text

TTP329

Otta

Author

Francisco Gálvez Pizarro

Year of creation

2016

Typeface category

Text

LTPS387

Parmigiano

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Riccardo Olocco, Jonathan Pierini

Cyrillic part author

Ilya Ruderman, Irina Smirnova

Year of creation

2015

Typeface category

Type system

AEP239

Plener

Author

Ana Prodanovic

Year of creation

2018

Typeface category

Display

SHTP215

SangBleu

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Ian Party (Swiss Typefaces)

Cyrillic part author

Ilya Ruderman, Yuri Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2018

Typeface category

Type system

TTP178

Trola

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Jordi Embodas (Tipografies)

Cyrillic part author

Pilar Cano, Ferran Millan (Letterjuice), Ilya Ruderman, Yuri Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2017

Typeface category

Text

ATP87

TT Trailers

Author

Victoria Usmanova, TypeType team

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

LTPS393

William

Author

Maria Doreuli

Year of creation

2018

Typeface category

Type system

SHZPS183

Yandex Sans

Cyrillic

Latin part author

Christian Schwartz, Miguel Reyes (Commercial Type)

Cyrillic part author

Ilya Ruderman (CSTM Fonts)

Year of creation

2016

Typeface category

Type system

ATP338

Zangezi Sans

Author

Daria Petrova

Year of creation

2019

Typeface category

Display

Honorable mentions

TTP312

Brevier

Author

Konstantin Lukyanov

Year of creation

2019

choice of Brownfox and Yuri Gordon, Robofont special prize

Typeface category

Text

AEP97

Czarevitch

Author

Andrey Kudryavtsev

Year of creation

2019

Glyphs special prize

Typeface category

Display

AES96

Ruber

Author

Sergey Godovalov

Year of creation

2018

choice of Alexander Lubovenko

Typeface category

Display

TEP140

Sparta

Author

Anastasia Baranova

Year of creation

2019

choice of Tagir Safaev

Typeface category

Text

AEP213

Thaw

Author

Ilya Bazhanov

Year of creation

2019

choice of Vlad Ermolaev

Typeface category

Display

TTP141

Vogel Sans

Author

Ivan Garbev

Year of creation

2018-2019

choice of Alexander Korolkova

Typeface category

Text

Public voting winners

AZP127

Bipolar Grotesque

Author

esh gruppa, Ekaterina Daugel-Dauge

Year of creation

2018

Typeface category

Display

ATP340

Grafema

Author

Jacklina Jekova, Todor Georgiev

Year of creation

2018-2019

Typeface category

Display

TEP345

Sapienza

Author

Nikolai Petrusenko

Year of creation

2015-2019

Typeface category

Text

Public voting

Public voting was active from June 20 until June 27. One vote for one typeface was valid during the voting period with Facebook account authorization. The voting is closed.

AEP268

AEP139

AZP228

TTP176

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Jury

Alexandra Korolkova

Art director of Paratype. Participated in Public Types of Russian Federation project as leading designer. The 9th recipient of Prix Charles Peignot (2013). Wrote a book on typography for beginners (in Russian) “Live Typography”. Spoke at ATypI, TYPO Berlin, TypeCon, TYPO Labs, Serebro Nabora, Typofest, Typetersburg.

Alexander Lubovenko

Type designer, graphic designer and programmer combining in one person. A graduate of Type and typography course of the British school of Art and Design (Moscow. 2014). Works at Paratype and uses Python scripting for advanced font development.

Yuri Gordon

Artist, graphic designer, illustrator, type designer and a bit writer. Yuri made ten thousand of book illustrations, 400 typefaces and a hundred of logos. He has also written a few books, including “The Book of Letters: from Aa to Яя”.

Valery Golyzhenkov

Graphic and type designer, teacher, partner in Letterhead Studio, founder of Typoholic.ru and member of the editorial board of the Type Journal.

Gayaneh Bagdasaryan

Founder of the Brownfox type foundry and mastermind behind the annual international type conference Serebro Nabora held in Russia. Award winner of international type design competitions Kyrillitsa’99, TDC² 2000 and Granshan 2013.

Vyacheslav Kirilenko

Type designer at Brownfox and freelance graphic designer. His work has been widely acclaimed, included in numerous international books and periodicals, and won an award from Granshan international type design competition, 2013.

Tagir Safayev

Type and graphic designer. Member of the Moscow Artists Union and of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), and a co-founder of the Type Designers Association, Moscow.

Jean-François Porchez

Founder of Typofonderie, type director of ZeCraft. After training as a graphic designer, during which he focused on type design, Jean François Porchez (1964) worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge, then at Le Monde newspaper in early 90s. He was President of the Association Typographique Internationale in 2004–2007. Founder and head of ECV Master design & Typography between 2011-2019. He is board member of the Club des Directeurs Artistiques in Paris and member of the Type Directors Club in New York. He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998 and numerous prizes for his typefaces. Introduced to French Who’s Who in 2009. In 2014, Perrousseaux publishes his monograph. Knight in the order of Arts and Letters in 2015. The President of France, Emmanuel Macron use his typefaces for his communication since 2017.

Luc(as) de Groot

Berlin-based Dutch type designer Luc(as) de Groot is best-known for his superfamily Thesis. But his repertoire is much wider and his type became a subtle part of everyday life. Luc(as) has designed custom fonts for newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Metro, taz.die tageszeitung, Freitag, Jungle World, Der Spiegel – in addition to creating corporate type for international companies including Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Volkswagen and Miele. He developed two font families for Microsoft: the monospaced font family Consolas, as a successor for Courier, and Calibri, the new default typeface in MS Word. Luc(as) de Groot is also a father, husband, illustrator and master of many crafts. He teaches type design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. He runs his type foundry LucasFonts and design studio FontFabrik in Berlin and gives lectures around the world.

Denis Serebryakov

Independent designer engaged in branding and type design since 2011. Proponent of the systematic approach to design and self demanding. Denis is interested in experimenting with readability of the typeface on the verge of a possible. He designed Appetite Pro, Bouquet, Displace, Rozza and some other fonts.

Vlad Ermolaev

Founder and creative director of Ermolaev Bureau. Vlad has been working in communication design since 1995. His biography includes working in the largest Russian and foreign agencies and studios. In April 2006, he was one of the founders of the agency BBDO Branding in Russia, which he led as a creative director until 2008. In 2009 he founded his own branding bureau, which is now in the Top of 5 best Russian brand agencies. Over the five years of the studio’s existence it has been awarded international prizes. In 2014, the visual identity for a construction company PZSP was awarded the Grand Prix-Red Dot, making Ermolaev Bureau the first among Russian studios to receive the highest award in the competition.

Selection committee

Valery Golyzhenkov

The chairman of the selection committee.

Rustam Gabbasov

Editor and graphic designer. After graduating from Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature and Creative Writing (2011) continued his education at the British school of Art and Design on the “Type and typography” course (2011-2012, curated by Ilya Ruderman). Since 2013 he is a co-publisher and editor of the publishing house “Sсhrift”. Makes books, teaches type history in Design school of RANEPA.

Konstantin Golovchenko

Graphic designer, Illustrator, researcher in the fields of typeface history and typography. He worked as a title designer for a broadcasting company for several years. Later he took the position of lead editor at a publishing house. Co-founder (alongside Viktor Kharik) of Apostrof digital type foundry.

Vitaly Kuzmin

Type designer and design auditor at Paratype, author of PT Root and a variety of custom typefaces.

Dmitry Goloub

Graphic and type designer, teaches the “Type” and “Typography” disciplines at the Institute of Business and Design. Worked for design studios and advertising agencies. Designer at Paratype.

Stages of the competition

Submitting entries

15.05.201903.06.2019

Public voting

20.06.201927.06.2019

Announcing the winners

30.06.2019

The results will be published at moderncyrillic.org on June 30, 2019. Winning typefaces will be awarded with honorary diplomas of Modern Cyrillic 2019, published in the catalog and shown at the traveling exhibition. Authors of the winning typefaces will receive a copy of the catalog after its publication. In addition, the organisers and partners of the competition reserve the right to award their own prizes to selected designs among the ones recognised by the jury.

There's also an additional bonus — three special prizes from the most popular type design apps: FontLab, Glyphs & Robofont — a license for the latest versions of these editors.

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For any questions about the competition and the terms of submission please contact the organising committee at k2019@paratype.com or at our Facebook.