Winning FontFonts

Creative Review Type Design Awards 2006, category Text Family
Winner: FF Nexus designed by Martin Majoor
Commendation: FF Maiola designed by Veronika Burian

TDC2 2006
FF PicLig by Christina Schultz (Type Systems)
FF Headz by Florian Zietz (Ornaments)

Reddot design award for FontFonts

We are proud to announce that "Little Yellow Writing Hood" has won the reddot design award 2005 in the category communication design.

FSI commissioned Strange Attractors Design (Catelijne van Middelkoop and Ryan Pescatore Frisk) to create and produce an animation for the FontFont exhibition FiFFteen. Positioned as a typographic fairly tale, "Little Yellow Writing Hood" uses over 300 typefaces from the FontFont library.

In addition, "Little Yellow Writing Hood" was judged as worthy of citation for typographic excellence and for showing in the annual Type Directors Club exhibition for 2004 and Typography 26.

Big Honors for FontFonts

We are proud to announce that FF Absara™ took honors in this year's TDC2 type design competition. Xavier Dupré's latest FontFont, along with other award-winning types, will be published in the TDC annual, Typography 26, and showcased in a traveling exhibition.

FF Angkoon and FF Unit awarded Certificates of Excellence in Type Design by the Type Directors Club

The Type Directors Club Type Design Competition (TDC2) is widely regarded as the premiere venue for the world's best in type design. The annual competition is judged each year by a new international panel of respected type designers. This year's jury included Veronika Elsner, Josh Darden, Dmitry Krasny, Pablo Medina and Charles Nix. FF Angkoon, by Xavier Dupré, and FF Unit, by Erik Spiekermann, were among the winners selected from more than 100 entries. The two FontFont originals will be published in Typography 25, the annual of the Type Directors Club, and will join a touring exhibit of typography to open this summer in New York City. The show will travel throughout North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and East Asia.

The FontFont library is not new to the TDC2. Another FontFont family, FF Strada, won top honours last year in the 2003 competition.

FF Unit also won an award from the German Art Directors Club at their annual judging in March this year.

TDC2 2003

We are happy to announce that FF Strada is among the winning entries in the TDC2 2003, the Type Design Competition of the Type Directors Club. There were 119 submissions from twenty countries. Fifteen entries were selected by the jury to represent the best in type design for the year 2002.

Winning entries will be included in the 2003 TDC Annual, Typography 24, and will tour with the TDC49 Typography exhibition. The exhibition will open in the Summer of 2003 in New York.

Danish Design Prize 2002

Danish Design Prize 2002 in the category of Best Typeface Design

The jury’s statement:
FF Signa is awarded the Danish Design Prize 2002 as a stylish, distinct and high quality typeface. The quality is consistently present in the individual letters, numbers and other characters and in the many styles that are included in the large Signa family - with FF Signa Correspondence as the latest addition, a digital TrueType font for the PC. The jury wishes to express its admiration for the continuing and consistent development of the typeface. The digitised version is very well done and works regardless of screen type, which will help secure the future of the typeface. In the detail, the boldface types and the beautiful styling of the numbers are especially convincing. FF Signa wins due to its combination of elegant simplicity and strong character. There is no doubt that the work with the font is based on enthusiasm and an eye for the larger picture, and the jury wishes to commend the graphic craftsmanship that it reflects.

bukva:raz!

ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) sponsored the international competition of type design bukva:raz! as a special contribution to the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations 2001. The name of the competition translates as "letter:one!"; bukva is the Russian word for "letter" (as in letterform) and raz for "one" (as in two thousand one). Bukva:raz! is aimed at promoting cultural pluralism and encouraging diversity, interaction and co-operation in typographic communications. Type designers from many regions and nations, of various ethnic, linguistic and cultural backgrounds had been invited to contribute to the contest. We had asked our FontFont designers to submit their FontFonts and here are the winners:

Michael Abbink: FF Kievit
Martin Majoor: FF Seria & FF Seria Sans

ISTD Awards 2001

The International Society of Typographic Designers, with jurors Derek Birdsall, Anita Boyd, David Carson, Fred Flade, Chris Foges, Vince Frost, Lucienne Roberts and Erik Torstensson, have chosen two of our FontFont families for ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2001. The awards ceremony took place in London on November 27th, 2001.

FF Kievit by Michael Abbink has won a Premier award and FF Seria/FF Seria Sans by Martin Majoor has won a Certificate of Excellence.

The total number of entries was 550. Forty-four Certificates of Excellence and 23 Premier Awards have been awarded. The work accepted as being eligible for a Certificate of Excellence have shown a high standard of design in conjunction with a high standard of typography, the criteria being that excellent typography is an intrinsic element of the overall design solution. Premier Awards have been chosen from the work which has met the criteria for a Certificate of Excellence, but which is also outstanding in the view of the majority of the jurors.

Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2000

The judging of the Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2000 took place in New York City on January 23, 2000, at the School of Visual Arts. The contest was judged by Matthew Carter, Barry Deck, John Hudson and Kathleen Tinkel. Maxim Zhukov chaired the Jury.

One hundred two designers from twenty-four countries participated in the competition. One hundred eighty-five entries competed in five categories: Text designs, Display designs, Text/display type systems, Type superfamilies, and Pi fonts.

Eighteen entries have been chosen by the Jury of TDC2 2000 to receive the Certificates of Excellence in Type Design. All winning entries will be included in Typography 21, the annual publication of the Type Directors Club, and shown at the TDC Awards Exhibition in New York City, from June through mid-September 2000; they will also be included in the exhibitions touring the United States, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, Mexico and Australia.

The winning FontFont typefaces in the Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2000 are: FF Clifford by Akira Kobayashi and FF Profile by Martin Wenzel. Both typeface families won in the text designs category.

FF Info wins Critic's Award in THE BIG CRIT 1998

When Critique magazine called for entries for their annual design contest, FSI rose to the occasion by sending in FF Info and FF Dax as candidates for the typographic category of the competition. The judges for the typographic category included none less than Matthew Carter and Ellen Lupton. Erik Spiekermann's FF Info won the award for its "personal" nature, clarity, legibility and simplicity of form - to name only a few of the listed qualities. The judges' review ended with the statement, "This is a significant design. The world will benefit from this typeface, and designers will put it to good use." FF Dax got honorable mention and was displayed in the special issue of the magazine. Both fonts made it into the 4% of entries that were accepted to the competition, and FF Info was among the top 1% that won an award. Complimentary copies of the magazine special edition were sent to the top 100 design clients in America.