Last summer I started working on t-shirt designs that call for the stop of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon. As a political tool, they achieved nothing, but then neither did the UN so I’m not so worried. As a design expression, it helped me voice my own feelings at the time and I found that […]
The ATypI list has received a very interesting post (links below) regarding a newspaper that is still being written by hand. Isn’t this a great find? Wow…
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/07/gallery_calligraphers
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/07/last_calligraphers
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 […]
Poster contest by Linotype with lots of prizes:
www.linotype.com/helveticaNOW
PS. This is not Arabic related, but still interesting to note
The first public outing of Byblos was in Abu Dhabi. More info here:
http://www.khtt.net/article-194-en.html
Thanks Huda!!
Is this an a photo taken in Beirut? No it is not.
A friend of mine was visiting Berlin and he saw this advertisement and was kind enough to send me the photo (thanks Dan!). The design is quite ok and I’m impressed by the overall quality of typography. On a type design level, not much […]
al_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. […]
Hmm. 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 […]
A very interesting article from the BBC: “A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians….”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6389157.stm
To 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 […]