2019 Gerard Unger Scholarship results
- Date
- May 2019
We are delighted to announce the recipient of the 2019 Gerard Unger Scholarship result, Lektorat (previously Redaktion), a typeface by Florian Fecher developed while studying at EsadType.
2019 winner: Lektorat by Florian Fecher
This year our annual mentorship programme was renamed in honour of our late colleague Dr Gerard Unger. The Gerard Unger Scholarship was increased in scope, which the same could be said of the winning submission: a wide-ranging project by Florian Fecher. As an editorially focused type foundry, Florian’s work fit with our passion and the design has much promise. The team had a quick introductory video chat with Florian to congratulate him.
Our best to all the entrants, and be looking for Florian’s work in the years to come. You can read a full interview and see more of the winning type family here.
The Gerard Unger Scholarship was previously called Typeface Publishing Incentive Programme.
Submissions
We received a total of 27 projects from 10 international universities and type programmes. The typefaces, balanced between serif and sans, all included the Latin script and in 15 occasions were accompanied by another script: Cyrillic (4), Greek (2), Bengali (1), Devanagari (1), Hebrew (1), Urdu (1), Arabic (4), and Chinese (1).
Merits
We want to thank every student who submitted their typefaces to the Gerard Unger Scholarship (previously named Typeface Publishing Incentive Programme), and also the teachers and tutors who have helped throughout the process. In this fifth edition, two more typefaces stood out.
Qutub News by Namrata Goyal
Qutub News by Namrata Goyal, student at KABK. A serif and sans type system for Indian newspapers, including Devanagari, Latin, and Nastaliq.
Girandengo by Tania Chacana, Sergio Martins & Dominic Stanley
Girandengo by Tania Chacana, Sergio Martins & Dominic Stanley, students at the University of Reading. A workhorse serif type family.
We also want to thank all the other participants for their submissions. While they may not been selected for the Gerard Unger Scholarship, we wish them the very best on their future path in type design!
