Byblos/BigVesta Arabic in use
Posted by nadine on April 2nd, 2007The first public outing of Byblos was in Abu Dhabi. More info here:
http://www.khtt.net/article-194-en.html
Thanks Huda!!
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BigVesta Arabic is Byblos
Posted by nadine on March 22nd, 2007After much brainstorming and research I settled on Byblos as the name for the arabic version of BigVesta that I have been working on for the past year. More pictures to come soon.
Arabic newspaper design: Al-Fadjr, Algeria
Posted by nadine on March 9th, 2007al_fadjr.pdf
Crossing over into the the western part of the Arab world, we have Al-Fadjr newspaper. It seems that the Algerians like their newspapers to have more color than what we are used to in Lebanon. I’ll show another Algerian paper tomorrow. Same thing. Am I being prejudiced here? There aren’t many newspapers that post pdf’s. […]
Arabic newspapers design: Al-Ayam, Yemen
Posted by nadine on March 5th, 2007Hmm. More on newspaper design with Al-Ayam newspaper from Yemen. This is from the what-were-you-thinking design section.
Fonts: The choice of typefaces , especially the headlines, makes this newspapers issue look like it was printed in the 70’s and that is not a complement. The thick horisontal baseline makes for a very solid base in which […]
BigVesta Arabic: Waw and e with many weights
Posted by nadine on February 20th, 2007More than a year ago, we started the Typographic Matchmaking project. My task was to collaborate with Gerard Unger to make an Arabic version of his Capitolium. Needless to say, the title of this post shows otherwise… To know more about the process of how we started and where we ended, wait for the book […]
Arabic newspaper design: Al-Hayat, London
Posted by nadine on February 18th, 2007To continue with the newspaper series, we now jump outside of Lebanon to the London based Al-Hayat newspaper. It is arguably the one with the highest number of circulation amongst all Arab newspapers and I’ve seen copies of it all over Europe.
Fonts: The styles used are mainstream conventional typefaces. The headline font uses the thick […]
Nasri Khattar short biography
Posted by nadine on February 6th, 2007I have received the following short bio of Nasri Khattar from his daughter and I thought it would be great to share it. I have always admired his work and am very happy to contribute to his memory.
NASRI KHATTAR
Architect, Type Designer, Inventor, Painter, Sculptor, Poet
1911 - 1998
Nasri Khattar, architect, practiced his profession for thirty-five […]
Arabic newspaper design: Al-Akhbar, Lebanon
Posted by nadine on February 5th, 2007Third in this series is Al-Akhbar newspaper published in Lebanon. This is also a new addition to the scene in Lebanon, and brings with it a very high level of journalistic quality. I am especially impressed by the editorials written daily by Joseph Samaha. Amazing quality of political analysis. Ok, back to the design:
Fonts: The […]
Arabic newspaper design: Al-Balad, Lebanon
Posted by nadine on January 28th, 2007There’s not many newspaper sights that post pdf editions so the review is not fully comprehensive. One interesting example that does is Al-Balad newspaper published since 2003 in Lebanon. The design has been changed since it was first published. The new look is quite interesting but those kids on the top left corner look scary!
Fonts: […]
Arabic newspaper design: Annahar, Lebanon
Posted by nadine on January 20th, 2007In the next few weeks, I will show different Arabic newspapers and will try to look at the elements of typographic styles used in newspapers in the Arab world today. Things to look at are: choice of Arabic fonts, layout, masthead design, and over all impression.
So, first example is the Annaher newspaper (meaning The Day) […]