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Experimental Arabic/Latin Type Workshop
Arabic Letter “Yeh” of Seria Arabic type drawn with coffee, ink and dantelle pattern. Students in the Advanced Typography course at the Lebanese American University [LAU] were asked to experiment with...
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Massira Spray in This Is Not a Love Song
Massira Spray, one of my graduation Arabic fonts at Type & Media / KABK, was used for This Is Not a Love Song exhibition at The Empty Quarter in DIFC in Dubai, UAE.
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Arabic Chocolate Cookies
I moved in my new studio this week, and we had a small cooking party. It was fun to make Light Arabic cookie letters by hand and have them come out from the oven Extra Bold. The Arabic chocolate...
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1st Printing Press in the Middle East
The Printing press of Saint Antonius in “Quzhayya” is the first printing press in the Middle East. It is located in a monastery in the Valley of the Saints in the mountains of the north Kaza of...
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Nada Debs Arabic Kufi Type
This piece was created specially for “the future of tradition – the tradition of future” exhibition at hausderkunst in Munich. It challenges our perception of delicate islamic carpets. Following the...
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29LT Makina : Multilingual Typewriter Typeface
29LT Makina is a revival of an Arabic, Persian and Latin typewriter. “Makina” in Arabic means ‘machine’, which is inspired from the translation of a typewriter from English to Arabic. The type-family...
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29LT Massira Type Project
29LT Massira is a simplified spontaneous handwriting set of fonts based on the casual writings of the Lebanese people and the Ruqaa Arabic calligraphic style. The type-family does not have weights but...
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UA Neo Fonts
Ha’ Glyph in both UA Neo N & B UA Neo B, originally known as UA Beiruti Modern, and UA Neo N, originally known as UA Neo-Nashki, belong to the first set of type revivals of Unified Arabic first...
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29LT Azer : Multilingual Typeface
Azer in Arabic means friendly, ready to assist and lend a hand. This multilingual typeface combines simple lines with careful detailing to create a serious but approachable look. The Arabic is a...
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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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29LT Zeyn : A Graceful Multilingual Typeface
29LT Zeyn is an elegant, contemporary Arabic and Latin typeface. Each weight contains 900-plus glyphs covering the Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Western European languages. The Arabic set contains an...
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29LT KAFF : AN ADEQUATE MULTILINGUAL TYPEFACE
29LT Kaff multilingual typeface in 8 weights (Thin, Ultra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black) 29LT Kaff is a contemporary typeface family designed by Pascal Zoghbi of 29Letters (29LT) and...
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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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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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Kufi Workshop
This workshop is part of the Fundamentals of Typography course at NDU. The students are asked to create a kufi pattern or logotype from their first names. The methods of Kufi structures where explored....
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Arabic Type Today
I will be giving a lecture at Notre Dame University on the 20th of November about the recent history of Arabic type and the type design process.
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Politics by means of Arabic Type
During the last month political slogans took over most of the Lebanese billboards. On the right is the first set of billboards and the left is the second set. Compare the two. Notice the difference...
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History of Arabic Type Evolution from the 1930’s till present.
1. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TRADITIONAL ARABIC TYPE. ———————————————————————————————————- 1.1 The origin of the Arabic script goes back to the first alphabet created by the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians...
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Arabic Glyphs Proportions and Guidlines
The following article is a brief description of systems and guidelines used in Arabic calligraphy and Arabic type design field to achieve proportional and harmonious Arabic letters. This article is...
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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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