Focused on young, creative, energetic people, the international
Typomania Typography Video Festivalis an annual type, typography, calligraphy and video feast.
The aim of the festival is to collect and connect as many type fans as possible and turn them in to a professional community. Moreover, the festival aims also to popularize the typography culture, be sensitive to traditions and support the most daring interesting experiments and projects.
The competition of typographical videos is one of the key events of the
Typomaniafestival. There are six categories:
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Animated poster•
Presentation of a typeface•
Cartography•
Movie titles(
commercial and student works)
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Text visualization(
songs, poems or other texts)
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TypomaniaOnly videos containing type as the active component can participate in the contest. Videos must have been created during
2015-17years. Individual authors, as well as creative groups, may take part in the event. Every contestant can send an unlimited number of entries.
The image size must not be less than
720x480pixels. File size must not exeed
300 MB. Allowed formats: wmv, avi, mov, mp4, flv.
There is no entry fee.
Eligibility
Open worldwide to designers, illustrators, animators. There are no age restrictions.
Prize
Various prizes will be awarded to the creators of the best typographical videos (
prizes for 2017 are yet to be announced).
Typomania 2017will be held in Moscow on
27 of May - 4 of Junein the Moscow Museum.