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Frankenstein

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?)

River Island Arabic.jpg

As to the way it matches the Latin, it doesn’t. It’s not the shoes that make people alike.

River island.jpg

Posted by nadine on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 1:14 am.

3 Responses to “Frankenstein”

hehehe… very funny! :->

Left by n on March 10th, 2007

the HORROR!
Its like looking at a person with different sizes limbs
haram, this is a humiliation!

Left by omar on May 11th, 2007

I think you clearly forget that all this doesn’t matter and all this is ornamentation, because it is quite simply a different representation of symbols, and symbols mean what tradition and or evolution want them to mean, and as long as the message is there, since you clearly were able to read the text, what does it matter.
In your blog/site, there are countless spelling and grammatical errors if you want to be technical about it, but I am able to read your site/blog nevertheless, and I don’t find it haram nor Frankensteinish nor an abomination.

Left by nino frewat on June 5th, 2007