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Droid Arabic Naskh fonts / Google Web Fonts
Droid Arabic Naskh is now shipping with the latest Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. It is the default font for the Arabic script in the smart phones using the latest Android operating systems. Droid...
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Happy New Year with New Arabic/Latin Fonts
May you have a Happy New Year with New bi-script Arabic/Latin Fonts. 29ArabicLetters is publishing 2 of its new bi-script Arabic/Latin fonts with the start of 2012 and promises many more to come in the...
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Arabic Type Talk & Arabesque Workshop at NUQAT Design Conference Dubai 2012
There was an array of interesting speakers at NUQAT Design Conference 2012 this year. Talks concerning contemporary use of Arab Islamic Art and Arabesque were addressed from Graphic Design, Type...
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Type Workshop, AJWA’, Riyadh
Arabic Type Workshop with AJWA’ organization in Riyad for profesional graphic designers and calligraphers. The event was organized by Fawaz Al Wzala. The workshop focused on the type design process and...
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Shawati’ Magazine Corporate Type
An elegant contemporary Arabic and Latin type characterize the new corporate identity of Shawati’ Magazine, Abu Dhabi. The new design and layout of the magazine was complemented by the creation of a...
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Censored. Why now? Graffiti in Beirut post Arab revolutions.
Since the publication of the Arabic Graffiti Book in 2011, which I co-edited with Don Karl, the scene and stance of graffiti in Beirut has changed drastically. With the development of the Arab Spring...
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Culture In Defiance
The Censored. Why now? Graffiti in Beirut post Arab revolutions article and images are being displayed within the Culture In Defiance: Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the Struggle for Freedom...
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Introductory Arabic Type Course at AUB
This spring, the elective course “Introduction to Arabic Type Design” at AUB [American University of Beirut] was introduced. It is given part of the Graphic Design program at AUB. Third and fourth...
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Thaber Logo
Thaber is a technology startup that is creating a recommendation engine based on behavioral economics. The team is mostly based in Palestine. Thaber means “to perseveres” in Arabic. The logotype is a...
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Beirut / Show Us Your Type
I have participated in the “Beirut” typographic poster design of Show Us Your Type and they have done a small interview about the design i did and my view about Beirut’s latest socio-political events....
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Arabic Graffiti Workshop / White Wall / BAC
The Arabic Graffiti workshop was part of the White Wall graffiti and street art event that was held at Beirut Art Center and all over the walls of Beirut. French graffiti artist Zepha-Vincent Abadie...
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Hard Rock Arabic Logo
The Arabic version of Hard Rock Cafe and Hotel word-mark is created in collaboration with Duncan/Channon and Hard Rock’s internal design team. The Arabic logotype had to echo the characteristics and...
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Talk & Workshop at NUQAT Kuwait 2012 / Reinventing the Archaic
The talk and workshop I gave at NUQAT Design Conference, Kuwait 2012, revolved around the topic of reviving traditional Arabic script into contemporary Arabic typefaces, patterns/arabesques and design...
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Khatt Foundation Arabic Type Design Workshop Series 2012
Khajag Apelian and I were the last workshop leaders in the 4th phase of the Khatt Foundation Arabic Type Design Workshop Series 2012 that took place at Tashkeel, Dubai. You can read more about the...
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Right To Left workshop with eps51
Alongside Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma from eps51, I have giving a bilingual poster design workshop for design students at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin KHB, in Berlin, Germany. The workshop was...
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Happy New Year 2013 / 29LT Massira Fonts
Happy New Year 2013! Hopefully all Arab people will be free and democracy reigns in all Arab nations in 2013. 29 Arabic Letters [29LT] is publishing its MASSIRA Type-Family for the year of freedom...
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Mouneer Al Shaarani Workshop
I took part in the Arabic Calligraphy and Lettering workshop that was offered by the renowned Syrian Calligrapher Mouneer Al Shaarani at Art on 56th Gallery in Gemmayzeh, Beirut. Inspired from his...
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29LT Massira Type Project
29LT Massira is a simplified spontaneous handwriting set of fonts based on the casual writings of the Lebanese people and the Ruqaa Arabic calligraphic style. The type-family does not have weights but...
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Nasri Khattar’s Typographic Journey
Nasri Khattar / Unified Arabic Type Last August in Beirut, I had the opportunity to meet with Camille Khattar Hedrick, the daughter of Nasri Khattar, the creator of a library of fonts based on Unified...
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Jameel Prize 3: The Shortlist
Jameel Prize 2013 at V&A Honoured to be one of the 10 shortlisted for the Jameel Prize 2013 at V&A, Victoria and Albert Museum. Text from the Jameel Prize page about my nomination: Pascal...
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