Morisawa Type Design Competition

BRIEF

Morisawa Type Design Competition has been giving birth to new typeface designs for decades since the first competition held in 1984. Through entries with bold ideas and new attempts in anticipation with unprecedented expressive capacity, the last competition in 2016 received more than 700 entries from 49 countries and regions, including both Kanji and Latin categories.

SCHEDULE

Submission PeriodNovember 1st, 2018 –
January 31st, 2019 (JST)

AWARDS

Morisawa Award
Kanji category・Latin category
Gold Prize: JPY 1 million (1 work)
Akashi Award
Theme “Variable Font”
Prize money: JPY 500,000
(Up to 3 works)
People’s Choice
Kanji category・Latin category
Voting opens on May 2019

FEES

No entry fee is charged.

JURY

Kanji category

Issei Kitagawa / Osamu Torinoumi / Ryoko Nishizuka / Masaaki Hiromura

Latin category

Ilya Ruderman / Indra Kupferschmid / Cyrus Highsmith / Laura Meseguer

The Emeritus Jury

Matthew Carter

WEBSITE

https://competition.morisawa.co.jp/en/guidelines/

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