The interview that I did last October has been published in Cap&Design, a leading and very well respected design magazine in Sweden, and now it’s online — thank you, Jonas!— and you can see it here:
http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.112375
In case you are wondering about the typeface that the word Beirut is set in, that’s the first public image […]
So today was not like any other day at work. The 50th birthday for Helvetica has spurred lots of interest in type and typography and it seems that we have finally migrated ino mainstream news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6638423.stm
The article talks about Helvetica and today it made headline news on the BBC News website which is a pioneering and […]
This blog is about Arabic typography, so how come there’s so much politics on it? Last month I was in Stockholm and I was interviewed by a magazine. The editor asked me, does the situation of Lebanon (past and present) affect my views on Arabic typography, and I quickly said,”of course.”
I am Lebanese, and I […]
This article is concerned with the problems of Arabic typefaces for Mac. The fonts in question are basically those available to Quark Arabic users. Quark Arabic is still the main DTP application used by designers and publishing houses and thus the fonts that are bundled with it play a very important role in the field […]
Piaget, a name familiar to all psychology students, defined 7 levels of crises that a person goes through in his entire life. One of these crises is identity crisis. What is of interest to us is what one might call Collective Identity Crisis, a problem that encompasses a whole nation; in this case, Lebanon. The […]