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It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it*

Posted by: Arjowiggins Creative Papers

Date added: Fri 30 Mar 2012

Arjowiggins Creative Papers announces the jury for the Conqueror Typographic Games, a free poster design challenge taken up by nearly 800 creatives from over 50 countries.

Arjowiggins Creative Papers is pleased to announce the jury for the Conqueror Typographic Games, a free international poster design challenge already taken up by nearly 800 creatives from over 50 countries.

The jury for the Conqueror Typographic Games will be headed by renowned typographer Jean François Porchez and composed of the following international journalists, bloggers, designers and typographers:

- Tim Lindsey, D&AD President (United Kingdom)
- Étienne Hervy, Artistic Director of the Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont (France)
- Patrick Burgoyne, Editor of Creative Review (United Kingdom)
- Caroline Bouige, Deputy Chief Editor of Etapes (France)
- Christine Moosmann, Editor of Novum (Germany)
- Romain Colin, Founder of Fubiz (France)
- Joep Pohlen, Designer (Netherlands)
- Yves Peters, Typographer (Belgium)
- Stephan Coles, Typographer (United States)
- Eric Chan, Blogger and Designer (Hong-Kong)

The jury will announce the winners’ list on June 14th over cocktails at the Colette shop in Paris. During the evening, the top 50 posters will be on display.

Typographic 'Olympians' have until the end of April to enter at: www.conqueror.com/typographicgames

The typographic posters are on the theme of sport, based on the statement: ‘It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it’. Terms and rules are also available online: www.conqueror.com/typographicgames

The ‘Gold’ winner will receive tickets to the Olympic Games 2012 as well as a trip to London, and the 5 ‘Silver’ winners, a pair of Nike trainers. Their posters, in addition to 7 ‘Bronze’ winner submissions, will be published in ‘Creative Review’.

Everyone is also encouraged to vote for their favourite country on the site. At the moment, the 'top 5' designs are from Ireland, Italy (2), Turkey and France, though the peer voting changes this all the time.

About Jean François Porchez, President of the Typographic Games Jury

Jean François Porchez is a world-renowned typographer whose Typofonderie (www.typofonderie.com) in France is an independent digital type foundry, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for adventurous digital typographers. The five bespoke ‘Conqueror’ typefaces created by Porchez are available to download free from www.conqueror.com and have been downloaded 26,174 times. The award winning typefaces include AW Conqueror Sans, AW Conqueror Didot, AW Conqueror Inline, AW Conqueror Slab and AW Conqueror Carved. In addition, a Chinese font is available, developed in partnership with The Beijing Founder Electronics Company.