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International Student Competition on Fonts and Calligraphy Pangram

The International Student Competition on Fonts and Calligraphy "Pangram" is devoted to the popularization of the cultural traditions of the peoples of different countries, the advancement of modern calligraphy and typeface design among young people, enabling the students to grow professionally, revealing their creative abilities. Also, the Competition contributes to the exchange of experience of various calligraphy schools in Ukraine and other countries. Students from such countries as Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Spain take part in the competition.

Participants of the Competition may be students of higher education institutions (Student category), as well as students of private graphic design schools, font courses, etc. (Private category).

Nominations

Every year a new main subject of the Competition is proposed.

I (2016) – the integration and interaction of different alphabets of the world.

II (2017) – Palindrome (number, word, phrase or text, which are read in the same way in both directions). The idea is cycling, rhythm, playing letters, words, phrases of the world that surrounds us.

III (2018) – Literature under the slogan "Read! Feel it! Interpret!" Visual interpretation of a literary work by means of font and calligraphy.

IV (2019/2020) – History of writing: personalities, events, milestones. The task is a visual interpretation of the significance of certain events and the influence of individuals on the development of writing systems of the peoples of the world and the development of font design as a whole.

V (2020/2021) – Alma Mater. Freedom in creativity — creativity in learning!

VI (2021/2022) – Philosophy of Existence!

VII Pangram (2022/2023) — Transformation: time, meaning, symbol

VIIІ Pangram (2023/2024) — NextGen Font: Beyond the Written Word

The international jury

consisted of high school representatives and font professionals. Every year new professionals are invited:

John D. Berry (USA), Scripta Typographic Institute, Director; ex-president of the International Association of Typographers (AtypI)

Ian Brignell (Canada), designer

Edik Ghabuzyan (Armenia), typeface designer, the initiator and founder of the international type design competition GRANSHAN

Riccardo De Franceschi (Italy), typeface designer, manages a design team at typeface design studio “Dalton Maag”, London

Victor Kharyk (Germany), typeface designer, author of research and reports on history and theory of fonts, delegate ATypI from Ukraine, founder of the group "Shchedryk: font help"

Aliaksei Koval (Belarus), calligrapher, typeface designer

Haytham Nawar (Egypt), designer. Chair of the Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo, and founder of Cairotronica, Cairo Electronic and New Media Arts Festival.

Jerzy Skakun (Poland), designer

Barbara Galińska (Poland), calligrapher, designer lettering art, the founder of The Warsaw House of Calligraphy and a member of the Polish Calligraphy Society

Christina Borisova (Bulgaria), professor, PhD of Art History and Fine Arts, the Department of the Poster and Visual Communication, National academy of art, Sofia

Tatsiana Kulazhenko (Lithuania), assistant professor of Visual Design and Media program of European Humanities University (Vilnius), is a member of Belarusian Union of Designers

Aliaksandr Kulazhenka (Belarus), designer

Oleksiy Chekal (Ukraine), calligrapher, typeface designer

Tetiana Ivanenko (Ukraine), Ph.D. in Study of Art, associate professor of Department of Graphic Design, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts

Kiril Tkachov (Ukraine), typeface designer, calligrapher, co-founder of Innerspace, art director of Infostyle, the founder of the international festival of font, calligraphy and book “Prostir Liter” (Lytsk)

Volodymyr Stasenko (Ukraine), artist, Ph.D., Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Graphic Design and Art of the Book of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing, Lviv

Yevgen Sadko (Ukraine), designer, typographer, the founder and CEO of font rental service “Rentafont.com”

Nataliia Syniepupova (Ukraine), graphic designer, art director at Meta2. Organizer and co-organizer of projects: Visual Communication Gathering, TYPE KYIV-2017 International Font Conference

Inna Cherkesova (Ukraine), professor, Honored Artist of Ukraine

Andriy Konstantynov (Ukraine), typeface designer

Mart Anderson (Estonia), type and graphic designer. Event Organizer у Kirjak Typography Conference

Krzysztof Kochnowicz (Poland), typeface designer. Professor of University of Arts in Poznań. Founder and head of Type Designe Studio at the University

Bohdan Hdal' (Ukraine), typeface designer, artist, graphic & web-designer, public activist, founder of the Folk Art Project "Rukotvory.

Anastasia Pavlidi (Lithuania), graphic designer in advertising agency "Idea Labs" (Lithuania), Participant of international poster, type, calligraphy and graphic design exhibitions

Aleksandra Samuļenkova (Netherlands), type designer, she is native to Latin and Cyrillic and has a keen interest in the origins of typographic traditions within these scripts

Olga Severina (USA), graphic designer, Ph.D. in Visual Arts, founder and curator of a PosterTerritory, serves on a jury of a variety of international poster competitions in Poland, Italy, China, and Iran, authored books and catalogs on the contemporary poster as well as articles for design magazines

Liana Shushanyan (Armenia), interpreter, translator and type designer. Has been engaged in different type art projects such as "Granshan" international type design competition. Currently, working to maintain and develop the unique characteristics and the cultural heritage of Armenian typeface design

Cheng Zhou (China), PhD of Art, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Arts, Hanshang Pedagogical University

Karen Cheng (USA), graphic designer, Professor, Visual Communication Design University of Washington

Merab Getsadze (Georgia), artist, typeface designer. One of the founders of the Association "Georgian Font"

Chang Sik Kim (USA), Professor, San José State University. Founder & Curator, IDEEC (International Design Education Expo & Conference)

Betül Uslu Özkan (Turkey), PhD, Assistant Professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Department

Christine Gertsch (Switzerland), graphic and type designer. MA in Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Arts the Hague, Netherlands. 9 years of experience in branding, editorial design and packaging design gained in Berlin, Hamburg and Zurich

The Competition is organized in three stages:

- qualifying (held in higher education institutions among students who wish to participate in the Competition);

- intermediate (admission of works, registration of participants, selection of works by the Organizing Committee of the Competition, formation of the list of participants);

- final (jury work, announcement of results).

Works admitted to participation in the Competition must have a high level of presentation, relevant nominations and must comply with ethical norms. Works can be performed in Cyrillic, Latin or other system of the letter of choice of the participant, unless it is emphasized in special conditions by nominations. Each participant has the right to submit up to 3 works in each nomination. No author name is allowed at work!

Winners are awarded with of diplomas I–III degrees, all the participants get certificates. The winners may also be awarded honors, awards from the Organizing Committee, charitable foundations and sponsors of the Competition.

Participation in the competition is free of charge. The participant guarantees the authorship of his works.

According to the results of the competition, exhibitions of the best works are held. For example, at the final exhibition in 2016, one could see font works with alphabets such as Armenian, English, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian and Vietnamese.

The winners

I Pangram https://ksada.org/nov-04-06-2016-02.html

II Pangram https://ksada.org/nov-08-11-2017.html

III Pangram https://ksada.org/nov-10-12-2018-2.html

IV Pangram https://ksada.org/pangram-2020.html

V Pangram https://ksada.org/pdf1/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D1%86%D1%96_%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82.pdf

VІI Pangram (2022/2023)

https://www.ksada.org/nov-20-06-23-1.html

The initiator of the Competition is Tatiana Ivanenko, Ph.D. in Study of Art, associate professor,

Department of Graphic Design, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Ukraine.

Organizing Committee: pangram.ksada@gmail.com

Site https://sites.google.com/view/pangram

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1202433566467328/

https://www.behance.net/gallery/167407331/Pangram-Competition

UA

Міжнародний студентський конкурс зі шрифту і каліграфії Pangram

проводиться щорічно з 2016 року, метою якого є:

розвиток шрифтової культури України та популяризація культурних традицій народів різних країн;
розширення та укріплення творчих контактів, сприяння професійному спілкуванню студентів і фахівців шрифтової справи, обміну досвідом різних каліграфічних шкіл України та інших країн;
підняття певних питань з проблем формоутворення шрифту, підтримання тенденцій становлення та розвитку систем кириличної писемності;
підвищення професійного рівня підготовки фахівців, якості методики викладання, а також визначення рівня фахової підготовки творчого характеру;
популяризування ролі дисциплін з каліграфії, шрифту та типографії у студентському середовищі, просування в цілому сучасної каліграфії й шрифтового дизайну серед молоді.

Учасники

Учасниками міжнародного конкурсу за п’ять років стали студенти закладів вищої освіти України та таких країн, як Польща, Литва, Болгарія, Туреччина, Вірменія, Іспанія, КНР, Сполучені Штати Америки, Малайзія, Індонезія, Іран, Тайвань, Бангладеш, Аргентина, Сербія. Естонія, Індонезія тощо.

Основні номінації конкурсу

Журі

До складу міжнародного журі за ці роки входили як представники-фахівці вищих навчальних закладів світу, так й відомі професіонали шрифтової справи. Серед них:

John D. Berry (USA), Scripta Typographic Institute, Director; Association Typographigue International (AtypI), Former President

Ian Brignell (Canada), designer

Riccardo De Franceschi (Italy), typeface designer, manages a design team at typeface design studio “Dalton Maag”, London

Edik Ghabuzyan (Armenia), typeface designer, the initiator and founder of the international type design competition GRANSHAN. Teaches type design in the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and cooperates with Monotype

Victor Kharyk (Germany), typeface designer, author of research and reports on history and theory of fonts, delegate ATypI from Ukraine, founder of the group "Shchedryk: font help"

Aliaksei Koval (Belarus), calligrapher, typeface designer

Oleksiy Chekal (Ukraine), calligrapher, typeface designer

Андрій Шевченко (Ukraine), typeface designer

Christina Borisova (Bulgaria), professor, PhD of Art History and Fine Arts, the Department of the Poster and Visual Communication, National academy of art, Sofia

Barbara Galińska (Poland), calligrapher, designer lettering art, the founder of The Warsaw House of Calligraphy and a member of the Polish Calligraphy Society

Jerzy Skakun (Poland), designer

Tatsiana Kulazhenko (Lithuania), assistant professor of Visual Design and Media program of European Humanities University (Vilnius), is a member of Belarusian Union of Designers

Aliaksandr Kulazhenka (Belarus)

Mart Anderson (Estonia), type and graphic designer. Event Organizer у Kirjak Typography Conference.

Haytham Nawar (Egypt), designer. Chair of the Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo, and founder of Cairotronica, Cairo Electronic and New Media Arts Festival.

Volodymyr Stasenko (Ukraine), artist, Ph.D., Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Graphic Design and Art of the Book of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing, Lviv

Yevgen Sadko (Ukraine), designer, typographer, the founder and CEO of font rental service “Rentafont.com”

Tetiana Ivanenko (Ukraine), Ph.D. in Study of Art, associate professor of Department of Graphic Design, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts

Віка Лопухіна (Ukraine), calligrapher

Інна Черкесова (Ukraine), професор, заслужений діяч мистецтв України.

Nataliia Syniepupova (Ukraine), graphic designer, art director at Meta2. Organizer and co-organizer of projects: Visual Communication Gathering, TYPE KYIV-2017 International Font Conference.

Andriy Konstantynov (Ukraine), typeface designer

Krzysztof Kochnowicz (Poland), typeface designer. Professor of University of Arts in Poznań. Many years’ Dean of the Graphics and Visual Communication Department. Founder and head of Type Designe Studio at the University.

Anastasia Pavlidi (Lithuania), graphic designer in advertising agency "Idea Labs" (Lithuania), Participant of international poster, type, calligraphy and graphic design exhibitions

Aleksandra Samuļenkova (Netherlands), type designer, she is native to Latin and Cyrillic and has a keen interest in the origins of typographic traditions within these scripts

Cheng Zhou (China), PhD of Art, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Arts, Hanshang Pedagogical University

Karen Cheng (USA), graphic designer, Professor, Visual Communication Design University of Washington

Merab Getsadze (Georgia), artist, typeface designer. One of the founders of the Association "Georgian Font"

Chang Sik Kim (USA), Professor, San José State University. Founder & Curator, IDEEC (International Design Education Expo & Conference)

Betül Uslu Özkan (Turkey), PhD, Assistant Professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Department

До попереднього відбору робіт у якості консультанта з неалфавітної системи писемності у 2021 році запрошено захищеного випускника аспірантури ХДАДМ Чжоу Чен, старшого викладача інституту мистецтв Ханьшанського педагогічного університету (Гуандун, КНР).

За підсумками конкурсу проходять виставки кращих робіт (2016, 2018). Наприклад, на підсумковій виставці 2016 року можна було побачити шрифтові роботи з такими алфавітами, як вірменський, англійський, український, російський, болгарський та в’єтнамський (https://ksada.org/nov-27-05-2016.html)

Кожного року пропонується ключова тема конкурсу:

I Pangram (2016) — інтеграція та взаємодія кирилиці і латиниці, алфавітів народів світу. Результати конкурсу: https://ksada.org/nov-04-06-2016-02.html

II Pangram (2017) — паліндром. Ідея полягає в циклічності, ритмі, грі букв, слів, фраз оточуючого нас світу. Результати конкурсу: https://ksada.org/nov-08-11-2017.html

III Pangram (2018) — світова література. Інтерпретація твору світової літератури, демонстрація сучасної молоді власного світогляду через переосмислення літературних сюжетів. Результати конкурсу: https://ksada.org/nov-10-12-2018-2.html

Виставка: https://ksada.org/nov-05-03-2019-2.html

IV Pangram (2019/2020) — історія писемності. Події, дати, особистості. Результати конкурсу: https://ksada.org/pangram-2020.html

V Pangram (2020/2021) — Alma Mater. Свобода у творчості — творчість у навчанні!

VI Pangram (2021/2022) — Філософія буття

VII Pangram (2022/2023) —Трансформація: час, сенс, символ

VIІI Pangram (2023/2024) — Шрифт майбутнього: нові форми писаного й друкованого слова

Ініціатор та організатор

Іваненко Тетяна Олександрівна,

кандидат мистецтвознавства, доцент, член Національної спілки художників України, доцент кафедри графічного дизайну Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв (Україна)

E-mail: pangram.ksada@gmail.com

Група у Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1202433566467328/

Інформація про конкурс: https://www.behance.net/gallery/167407331/Pangram-Competition