Archive for March, 2007

BigVesta Arabic is Byblos

Posted by nadine on March 22nd, 2007

After much brainstorming and research I settled on Byblos as the name for the arabic version of BigVesta that I have been working on for the past year. More pictures to come soon.

Arabic in Berlin

Posted by nadine on March 21st, 2007

Is this an a photo taken in Beirut? No it is not.
A friend of mine was visiting Berlin and he saw this advertisement and was kind enough to send me the photo (thanks Dan!). The design is quite ok and I’m impressed by the overall quality of typography. On a type design level, not much […]

Frankenstein 2: Body Shop

Posted by nadine on March 20th, 2007

More fun from the Latinised Arabic. This one is a gem!
(Why? The waw is too small; the serifs are all over the place; the Dal and Thal are structurally week; the serif on the Yeh is just hilarious and looks like the end of a vacuum cleaner!)

TypoTechnica speaker list is now online

Posted by nadine on March 20th, 2007

The date is getting closer! More info here:
http://www.linotype.com/3194/introduction.html

Arabic newspaper design: Al-Fadjr, Algeria

Posted by nadine on March 9th, 2007

al_fadjr.pdf
Crossing over into the the western part of the Arab world, we have Al-Fadjr newspaper. It seems that the Algerians like their newspapers to have more color than what we are used to in Lebanon. I’ll show another Algerian paper tomorrow. Same thing. Am I being prejudiced here? There aren’t many newspapers that post pdf’s. […]

Frankenstein

Posted by nadine on March 6th, 2007

There’s a typographic equivalent of Mary Shelley’s creation. I took this photo in Dubai. It’s almost a joke, but is in fact very real. Another addition to the what-were-you-thinking section!
(I am especially fond of the Reh and the Alef; does the designer know that the Reh is never taller than the Alef?)

As to the way […]

Arabic newspapers design: Al-Ayam, Yemen

Posted by nadine on March 5th, 2007

Hmm. More on newspaper design with Al-Ayam newspaper from Yemen. This is from the what-were-you-thinking design section.
Fonts: The choice of typefaces , especially the headlines, makes this newspapers issue look like it was printed in the 70’s and that is not a complement. The thick horisontal baseline makes for a very solid base in which […]

TypoTechnica 2007

Posted by nadine on March 5th, 2007

Linotype is organising its 4th TypoTechnica conference to be held here in Frankfurt on April 27-29. More info can be found here: http://www.linotype.com/3250/introduction.html
“TypoTechnica is renowned as the premiere platform bringing together typeface designers, font developers, and software technicians. Taking place for the fourth time, international font technology specialists, speakers and trainers will come together for […]