Winners of the 5th Annual International Typography Poster as Asma-ul Husna, Tehran 2009
Please see the official web site or the Call for entries for more details.

On August 22, 2009, the jury (Rene Wanner / Switzerland, Wissam Shawkat / Dubai,UAE, Ghobad Shiva / Iran, Majid Majidi / Iran & Sedaghat Jabari / Iran) awarded the following prizes from 1339 entries received, from which the preselection jury (Ghobad Shiva, Ali Mirfatah, Koorosh Parsanejad & Sedaghat Jabari had chosen 40 posters for the competition section) : Grand Prix Ali Javaher / Iran 1. Prize Sabina Oberholzer & Renato Tagli / Switzerland 2. Prize Ali Seylan / Turkey 3. Prize Omid Nemalhabib / Iran Honorable Mention Aditya Mandayam / USA Elnaz Bagheri / Iran Bahram Hamidi / Iran Fateme Eslami Ketabchi / Iran Shahin Afshari / Iran

Here are some of the winning posters:

Ali Javaher	Sabina Oberholzer and Renato Tagli	Ali Seylan
Omid Nemalhabib	Aditya Mandayam	Elnaz Bagheri
Bahram Hamidi	Fateme Eslami Ketabchi	Shahin Afshari

and some pictures from the opening ceremony at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art:

Ali Javaher, winner of the Grand Prix

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Chairman of the Majlis Cultural Commission

Rene Wanner, jury member

Jalil Rasouli, famous calligrapher, receives an honorary diploma for his painting exhibition accompanying the poster event, from Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Mohammad-Hossein Imani-Khoshkhu, Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs, and Mahmud Shaluii, director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (left to right).

Rene Wanner, Ali Vazirian, founder of the International Typography Poster Annual, and Olivier Fink from the Swiss Embassy whith the prize for Sabina Oberholzer and Renato Tagli