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.
There is light at the end of this long tunnel. Today the Lebanese parliament voted for a new president and it seems that there is this small chance that things will be ok for my home country. For more than 3 years now Lebanon has been beset with all sorts of political troubles. My family, […]
Mamoum Sakkal is carrying out a survey on square Kufi. Click here to find out more.
In early 2004, I was asked by the American University of Beirut to design an Arabic companion to the typeface Frutiger that they had chosen for their internal signage system. I started working on the design soon after and by that summer, the master weight was done.
This is the year that I had spent waiting […]
I saw this a while ago in the theater and loved the movie. Today I thought to post a link to the opening credits. Great score and wonderful animation with faux-Arabic. These people did their research and were able to create a wonderful mood. In case you do decide to watch the movie, bring […]
I am very happy to report that Palatino Arabic, which I had worked on with Prof. Hermann Zapf, has won an Award for Excellence in Type Design from Type Directors’ Club in New York!!!
Palatino Arabic is in the style of classical Naskh but with a Thuluth flavor. The design had quite a large number of […]
In case you would like to get your own copy of the Helvetica movie, and I highly recommend this, you can get a copy here.
A foreign language textbook publisher is looking for someone who can provide Arabic designs (page borders, backgrounds, icons, etc.) for the publication of a new edition of a beginning Arabic text. If you are a designer or artist, or you can direct the publisher to a source of this type of content, please contact tim.shea@yale.edu. […]
Very exciting news!! First of all, you’ve all heard of the Helvetica movie, right? If not, a very few words: The movie is directed by Gary Hustwit and it is about Helvetica. Yes, the typeface. A feature length movie about the most popular typeface of our times. Cool, no? The movie itself is a wonderful […]
I was in Lebanon for x-mas and saw that we had a new 1000 Lebanese Lira note. That’s sort of the basic unit of currency and it is worth around 66 USD cents. Interesting things about money: 1- you can never have enough of it, 2- the paper it’s printed on says a lot of […]