Archive for June, 2008

The story of Palatino Arabic

Posted by nadine on June 29th, 2008

I joined Linotype in February 2005 as an intern working on Arabic fonts. As many people know, Prof. Hermann Zapf has a great working relationship with Linotype and he comes to the office quite often. Shortly after I joined, Bruno Steinert introduced me to him and told him about my work there. The following May, […]

De Niro’s Game

Posted by nadine on June 13th, 2008

A Lebanese writer won the prestigious International Impac Dublin Literary Award. His book is about two childhood friends growing up in the Lebanese civil war. I have just ordered it from Amazon. More info here.