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EL HEMA at Mediamatic, Amsterdam.
August was a great experience for five young Arabic graphic designers (fresh graduates) from the Arab world and I. The 24th of August was the “Khatt Kufi Kaffiya” symposium on Arabic Visual Culture,...
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Culture Exchange Graffiti / Beirut-Berlin
I was contacted by Don R. Kari after he saw the Lebanese Graffiti post on my blog. Don Kari is a german graffiti artist. He and his german graffiti colleagues initiated a project in Cuba and now they...
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Imarat Headlines Arabic Type
Imarat is an Arabic newspaper type family consisting of “Imarat Headlines” & “Imarat Text”. “Imarat Headlines” is a display type for use in the headlines and titling of a newspaper, while “Imarat...
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idpure edition on type design
The 12th issue of Idpure Swiss magazine of graphic design and visual creation was dedicated on young type designers work in the glob. I was the young Arabic type design interviewed for the 12th issue...
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Arabic Movable Metal Letters
Movable Metal Letters are just amazing. [Especially for type lovers like me ;)] I have recently bought Arabic and Latin movable metal type. They were for an old Arabic printing press in the Shouf area...
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Khatt Fonts Event (Art Lounge) & 29letters Lecture (AUB)
Through out November and December in Beirut, I had giving : 1. a lecture entitled “29letters” about my Arabic type project and type design process at AUB, 2. a presentation about EL HEMA project...
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Happy New Year 2008
The two typefaces: 1. Arabic “Al Rouiya Headlines” and 2. Latin “Alif Arabesque Pixel” are my latest projects that i am working on at the moment. I will write more about the new typefaces when they...
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Alef Pixel Caps Type for Alef Magazine
A Drop Initial Caps typeface for Alef Magazine. Alef Caps is a pixel font inspired from the arabesque “Msharabiyé” eight-star shape. It will be first in use in the 6th issue of the magazine. The...
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Al Rouiya Arabic Type for “Al Rouiah” Newspaper in Kuwait
Al Rouiya is a corporate Arabic titling typeface for “Al Rouiah” newspaper in Kuwait. The font is exclusive for 5 years for “Al Rouiah” newspaper in Kuwait starting from February 2008. The newspaper...
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Hybrid Arabic/Latin workshop
A small workshop in the “Type Design” course at NDU involving the creation of hybrid Latin words using basic letter components from Arabic letter-forms. English and French words created from Arabic...
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Square Kufi Cross
Square Kufi patterns are often used in mosques for Qur’anic verses or Islamic sayings. It is very rare to see square kufi patterns created out of Christian bible verses or Christian sayings… Last...
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My Mulsaq Project Entry “Ma7rousa ya 3arousa”
Ma7rousa ya 3arousa entry in the Mulsaq Project. Cargo trucks in Lebanon and the Middle East are usually painted with Arabic calligraphy using vernacular Arabic words. The Arabic word “mahrousa” is...
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Bombing Beirut – Arabic Graffiti Workshop
On the 4th, 5th and 6th of November I took part of an Arabic graffiti workshop which was given by the German graffiti artist Mr. Don Karl. It was great to finally meet up with Lebanese graffiti artist...
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Corporate Identity Design Proposal / Beirut Art Center
The opening of Beirut Art Center is in February 2009. I have participated in the design pitch for the corporate identity for the art center. A different design approach was chosen by the comity of the...
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The First Arabic Script Printing Press in Lebanon
“Al-Shamas Abdullah Zakher” founded the first Arabic printing press in Lebanon in 1734. The press is located in “Deir Mar Youhana” in “Khinshara”. The printing press operated from 1734 till1899. It was...
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Baseet Type for ContempArabia
Baseet is a hybrid Neo-Naskh / Modern Kufi geometric typeface. It is a mixture of straight vertical, horizontal and diagonal pen stokes incorporated in-between curved corners and edges. The font work...
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The 1st Arabic font published by FontFont :: FF SeriaArabic
The first Arabic typeface in the FontFont library, Pascal Zoghbi’s design was originally called Sada, the Arabic word for “echo”. Accordingly, this face is the echo of FF Seria by Martin Majoor. FF...
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ALWatan Headlines Arabic Typeface
AlWatan typeface is a corporate Arabic headlines typeface for Al Watan newspaper in Saudi Arabia KSA. The font is exclusive for 1 year for the newspaper starting from 2009. The brief was to create a...
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29letters T-Shirts
I did some Arabic Vernacular T-Shirts design in my spare time. I would appreciate your comments on them. You would buy any? There is a style you prefer against another? or… The number of Arabic letters...
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Beirut! 3alal Yameen.
“Beirut! 3alal Yameen” (Beirut! Stop on the right) is a self-initiated poster on representing Beirut in few items and words. The poster will be exhibited in the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 in...
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