28.Jul.2007 khatt kufi & Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
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
22.Jul.2007 Islamic art exhibit in London
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).
16.Jul.2007 Design for Peace: One year on
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 [...]
11.Jul.2007 Latinised Cyrillic?
Dominik sent me this (Thank you!) from Russia: (Though it is in many ways derived from Latin, so it is inherently Latinised…)
06.Jul.2007 Newspaper still uses Urdu Calligraphy
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