Next month I will be speaking at this event, and it should be interesting for people interested in Arabic Typography:
khatt kufi & Kaffiya
The Khatt Foundation Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
24 August 2007, Amsterdam
The Khatt foundation in collaboration with Mediamatic will host a full day of lectures, presentations and celebration of new Arabic cultural expression.
The day […]
As usual, from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6902755.stm
“The Spirit & Life exhibition, Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection, is on display at London’s Ismaili Centre until 31 August 2007.”
It includes fragments from the Blue Koran (seen above).
Last summer I started working on t-shirt designs that call for the stop of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon. As a political tool, they achieved nothing, but then neither did the UN so I’m not so worried. As a design expression, it helped me voice my own feelings at the time and I found that […]
Dominik sent me this (Thank you!) from Russia:
(Though it is in many ways derived from Latin, so it is inherently Latinised…)
The ATypI list has received a very interesting post (links below) regarding a newspaper that is still being written by hand. Isn’t this a great find? Wow…
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/07/gallery_calligraphers
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/07/last_calligraphers