31.Dec.2011 Ending the year on a very high note!
Have to spill it out: I’m in Megg’s History of Graphic Design!!! I am sooo thrilled, excited, honored, and deeply humbled to be included in this book: “This is the unrivaled, comprehensive, and award-winning reference tool on graphic design recognized for publishing excellence by the Association of American Publishers. Now, this Fifth Edition of Meggs’ [...]
06.Nov.2011 To give a voice
This is the title of Linotype’s Fonts in Focus 9 which showcased the An-Nahar project from earlier this year. I am super happy with what Magma has designed and you should definitely check it out! You can get the printed version here.
05.Nov.2011 Arabic text for type specimens
I was looking yesterday at the specimens of some of the recent Arabic type design projects and was seriously disappointed with the choice of texts. Here are a few tips for non-Arabic speakers who are designing Arabic type specimens: – Online translation tools rarely give grammatically correct texts and the errors stick out like a [...]
01.Nov.2011 3 free Arabic fonts for my 33
I’m turning 33 next week on Tuesday and to celebrate I have asked Linotype if we could give away 3 of my Arabic fonts for free for the whole month of November, and they have accepted! Deciding on which ones to give out was not easy which was why I asked everyone to chime in [...]
29.Sep.2011 Gorgeous collages of Fayrouz in the press
I came across these today on the Facebook page of Lebanese diva Fayrouz. Not enough can be said about her voice and her songs, and now these collages bring back the typographic flavors of newspapers in many years past. Enjoy!
24.Sep.2011 Which one of my Arabic fonts would you like to get for free?
For reasons that I will explain in a couple of weeks — nothing sinister so no worries! — I would like to give some of my fonts for free, though only for a limited time. So, let me know which one of my fonts you’d like to get for free, and I will ask Linotype [...]
24.Aug.2011 Qatar e-government uses Berytus (BigVesta Arabic) for its logo
I just came across this… Didn’t even know about the services they offer but the site looks very helpful. The logo has a modern look that still tries to capture the flare and spark of Arabic culture. Color scheme is great. Being me, of course I would redesign a few things like the alignment on [...]
21.Jun.2011 I’m in Ramallah!
Or, I’m in Ramallah as much as humanly possible given the travel restrictions in that area. I just learned via twitter that TEDxRamallah used my Neue Helvetica Arabic for their logo. I’m thrilled for 2 reasons: 1. I have no clue when I would ever be allowed into Palestine but at least one of my [...]
12.Apr.2011 Lebanon wakes up to a new day
A new day, ونهار جديدة I had the privelage to be asked to design the headline typeface for the redesign of An-Nahar newspaper and to develop its Arabic typographic suite. This is a project beyond anything I had ever worked on before. It touches on so many different levels, that I really do not know [...]
25.Mar.2011 Setting up webfonts for my blog: signing up
So, today I finally joined the webfont rush and will be adding a few nice fonts to my blog’s typographic repertoire. I’ve just done the first step, completed in less than 1 minute. I went to webfonts.fonts.com and signed up for an account. I thought it would take longer but I’m already creating projects and [...]