Linotype Announces
International Type Design Contest 2003

www.linotype.com/contest

From March 2003 Linotype has the pleasure to invite type
artists around the world to participate in their fourth Type Design Contest.
This contest is eagerly awaited by type designers around the world,
as the past three belong to most successful in the world of type.
The contest?s goals and orientation have been accepted by the
international community of type designers.

The deadline is the 31st December 2003.

Besides encouraging and promoting new artists the contest's goals are
to detect and publish new and original trends in type design and
to support their development. Further the type design contest offers
the winners attractive prizes as well as the chance to gain
worldwide popularity through Linotype Library?s marketing.
Clear and fair license agreements are the basis for this relationship.
The contests international recognition offers type designers an
excellent opportunity to attract attention to their work.

Designers, placing their fonts in the Linotype Library have something
in common with some of the most famous, i. e. Neville Brody, Matthew Carter,
Adrian Frutiger, Karlgeorg Hoefer, Hans Eduard Meier, Max Miedinger,
Peter Matthias Noordzij, Gottfried Pott and as far as Professor Hermann Zapf
and their typefaces Arcadia(TM), Industria(TM), Bell Centennial(TM),
Bell Gothic(TM), Shelley(TM), Frutiger(TM), Univers(TM), Sho(TM),
Omnia(TM), Syntax(TM), Helvetica(TM), PMN Caecilia(TM), Carolina(TM), Arioso,
Palatino(TM), Optima(TM), the latest release of Optima nova(TM) and Zapfino(TM).

Further Linotype Library is a legitimate successor of traditional type foundries
and producers, such as Deberny & Peignot, Haas sche Schriftgie