My typeface family Malabar received a silver award at ED2009, the European Design Awards 2009 competition. Malabar grew out of Martel, a multi-script design that I initially created in 2008 on the MA Typeface Design course at the University of Reading. The Latin component of the family is distributed by Linotype, and you can buy it here.
The design’s success was announced on Sunday, 17 May 2009, at the ED-Festival in Zürich. Malabar received the silver award in the original typeface category. This isn’t Malabar’s first distinction; its six Latin fonts received a Certificate of Typographic Excellence in Type Design at the Type Directors Club of New York TDC² competition in January 2009. Unlike my entry to the TDC², Malabar’s presentation for the ED-Awards judges included both its Latin and Devanagari character sets.
Past ED-Award winners include Veronika Burian and José Scaglione from TypeTogether, Titus Nemeth, and David Březina (all of whom are also MATD alumni). This year saw several winners. Here are the stats:
Gold
Comenia—School Typeface System, Suitcase Type FoundrySilver
MalabarBronze
Bree, TypeTogether
FC Autobahn, Autobahn
Planeta, Dani Klauser Graphic Design
Nabil, Emanuela Conidi
Kina, Francesca Bolognini
Texteron, Cape Arcona Type Foundry
Fedra Hindi, Typotheque
Comments
15 responses to “Malabar takes home silver at the ED-Awards”
Way to go Dan! Congratulations!
Congratulations! Great to see your work on both the Latin and the Devanagari components of Malabar recognized.
Congratulations on the continuing accolades for such a well-designed face.
Thanks, guys!
Congratulations!
Awesome work, Dan! Congratulations!
I am more interested in your Devanagari than anything else right now. How many weights you’re planning to have for the release? Could you tell us an estimate release date, please?
Good luck with the upcoming surprises! :-)
Oh, I suspect that I’ll do a regular, a bold, and a black… at least a regular and a bold. I really can’t say. I’m not working on it at the moment, so I can’t hammer down any sort of time frame right now.
BRAVO, Dan!!!
Congratulations Dan. Hope to see you soon.
Thanks, Chris and Claus! Chris will you be at Typecon this year? And Claus when am I going to see you again? This weekend, there were plenty of Danes at TYPO Berlin, but none with your coolness factor…
Berlin… well, I have a little project going that is eating all my precious time. My plan is to go to ATypi Mexico, but I feel I might be pretty alone there…
Ah… Mexico is going to remain an illusive dream for me. Such are the terrors of reality. But I wish you the best of luck with that little project of yours. I hope that it comes to a very successfull conclusion… soon!
Congrats, Dan! Well deserved.
Congratulations Dan. Hope to see you soon.
Just came across your site while looking foe examples of Devanagari typography. I must say that your typeface is most appealing. Congratulations.