Prix Charles Peignot
Encyclopedia
The Prix Charles Peignot (Charles Peignot Prize) is a major award in typeface
design, given "to a designer under the age of 35 who has made an outstanding contribution to type design" . It is awarded irregularly, typically every three to five years, by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI, the international typographic association). It was first given in 1982.
The prize is named after Charles Peignot (1897–1983), type designer, director of the Deberny & Peignot
type foundry, and founder and first president of ATypI.
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
design, given "to a designer under the age of 35 who has made an outstanding contribution to type design" . It is awarded irregularly, typically every three to five years, by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI, the international typographic association). It was first given in 1982.
The prize is named after Charles Peignot (1897–1983), type designer, director of the Deberny & Peignot
Deberny & Peignot
Deberny & Peignot was a French type foundry, created by the 1923 merger of Peignot foundry and the Laurent & Deberny foundry. It was bought by the Haas Type Foundry of Switzerland in 1972, which in turn was merged into D...
type foundry, and founder and first president of ATypI.
Award winners
Winners to date of this award have been:- Claude Mediavilla (1982)
- Jovica Veljović (1985)
- Petr van Blokland (1988)
- Robert SlimbachRobert SlimbachRobert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-...
(1991) - Carol TwomblyCarol TwomblyCarol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces...
(1994) - Jean François Porchez (1998)
- Jonathan HoeflerJonathan HoeflerJonathan Hoefler is an American typeface designer. Hoefler founded Hoefler & Frere-Jones , a type foundry in New York that Hoefler shares with fellow type designer Tobias Frere-Jones.Hoefler has designed original typefaces for Rolling Stone Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine,...
(2002) - Christian SchwartzChristian SchwartzChristian Schwartz is an American type designer. He has been awarded the German Design Award and the Prix Charles Peignot.-Life :...
(2007)