The annual Gerard Unger Scholarship (GUS) helps promising typeface design students develop their careers. TypeTogether’s aim is to enable exceptional projects started during a course of study to be finalised and published commercially as soon as possible after the end of the course. This year 46 submissions with nine different scripts flowed in from all over the world prior to the deadline. The TypeTogether team has selected the main scholarship winner and eight merit awards from among these promising typeface projects.

Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, the founders of TypeTogether, comment about this edition of the Scholarship: “Aeroplan is the bridge where contemporary and vintage design meet, and they do so beautifully. Nina’s typeface produces blocks of text that look even and pleasantly readable, so it is a real surprise to see how daring, even intrepid, the letter shapes are when you zoom in on them.”

The eight promising typeface projects receiving TypeTogether’s merit award are: Aimé by Fernanda Cozzi, Cemita by Miguel Angel Contreras Cruz, Didonist by Sergei Rasskazov, Glossa by Emerson Eller, Letra Brasileira by Sandro Fetter, Nausea by Fred Wiltshire, Ploquine by Emma Marichal, and Tiffin by Salomi Desai.

We want to thank every student who submitted their typefaces to the Gerard Unger Scholarship, and also the teachers and tutors who have helped throughout the process.