Illustration Competition: Winners

The judges have deliberated and now it’s time to announce the results in the FontStruct “Illustration” competition for illustrative, modular typefaces.

It was especially hard work judging this time. Not only was there a record number of entries, but without the underlying coherence of an alphabet, the fonts often did not reveal their qualities at first glance. The judges needed to examine the entire character set, and look at the font at different sizes. Samples were also even more important than usual. The diversity of approaches to the brief taken by designers made it difficult to find common judging criteria, and about fourteen different entries were mentioned in the judges notes. Amazingly, despite this, three clear winners did emerge. Before we get to them, let’s review some of the other entries mentioned by the judges. Continue reading…

Illustration Competition: Judging has started

Thanks to everyone who entered the “Illustration” competition. The entries were numerous and wonderfully diverse this time around.

The results of the judging will be announced on this blog on Friday May 13th.

The judges are:

• Kai Vermehr from eBoy
• Stephen Coles from Typographica and Fonts in Use
• Gustavo Ferreira AKA hipertipo
• Theresa dela Cruz from FontShop (creator of the first ever illustrative FontStruction “Kawaii!”)
• John Skelton AKA afrojet

They’ve got their work cut out!