Typomania International Festival is a cultural and educational project dedicated to the type, typography, calligraphy, lettering, motion-design and interactive design. Held in Moscow since 2012, the festival aims to collect and connect as many type fans as possible to promote typography culture and to support the most daring experiments and projects.

The competition of typographical videos is one of the key events of the Typomania Festival. Typomania’s 2019 theme is “Before and after” and is all about the history of the type and its future.

There are six categories:

• Videos where the font is playing the key role
• Before and after (Typomania 2019 theme)
• Presentation of a typeface (Video demonstrating the abilities and specificity of type)
• Movie titles (commercial and student works)
• Text visualization (songs, poems or other texts)
• Typomania

Only videos containing type as the active component can participate in the contest. Videos must have been created during 2017-2019 years. 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 720x480 pixels. 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 are yet to be announced). Typomania 2019 will take place in Moscow on May 25 to June 2, 2019 in the Museum of Moscow.