Happy New Year with New Arabic/Latin Fonts
May you have a Happy New Year with New bi-script Arabic/Latin Fonts.
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 Arabic Naskh can be downloaded from Google Font Directory for all online web usage and mobile applications.
Arabic Logos from 29ArabicLetters for 2011
Selected Arabic Logos created by 29ArabicLetters in the year 2011.
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FF Seria Arabic Updated
FF Seria Arabic has been updated with improvement to the horizontal metrics.
Every customer that have purchased the fonts before September 2011 can contact FontFont and ask for the updated version for free.
I Love Corruption / Union of the Arab people / Graffiti Erased / Beirut
Stencil “I love corruption” by lebanese artist Ali & graffiti “Soon the Union of the Arab people” by Egyptian artist Ganzeer drawn on the evening of the 21st of September, in Hamra, Beirut.
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Droid Arabic Kufi & Naskh for Google™
Droid Arabic Naskh & Kufi Typefaces were designed in 2010 for use in Google™ products such as Google Chrome™ and Android™.
Sample mock-up for the fonts used within Android phones.
Designed to complement the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic provided in the Droid Type Family, the Arabic matches the color, alignment and design detail of the Latin allowing them to be used together for multi-lingual typesetting. (more…)
Interview with Khatt – Love your letters, they are your babies!
Interview with Pascal Zoghbi by Huda AbiFares from the Khatt Foundation.
Part of the Multiple Baselines series.
Pascal Zoghbi is one of the young generation of Arab type designers. He has participated in two of the design research projects of the Khatt Foundation: ‘Typographic Matchmaking’ and ‘Typographic Matchmaking in the City’ respectively. This interview will focus on his Arabic type design—mainly work that was inspired by hand-made lettering, calligraphy and street art.
“Arabic Graffiti” Book
200 pages full color |Hardcover 28.5 x 21cm | 325 photographs & illustrations | English edition
Price: 34.95 $ | ISBN: 978-3-937946-26-9
Typographic Matchmaking in the City / Symposium, Film screening & Book launch IN BEIRUT
Location: Beirut Art Center [BAC] Date: Monday, 11 April 2011 Time: 19:00 – 22:00
Free Entrance but registration is required. RSVP to khatt.foundation@gmail.com
Illustration by Naji El Mir: the Hamsa Project by Erik van Blokland, Pascal Zoghbi & Joumana Al Jabri.
The Typographic Matchmaking in the City project is a design research project investigating new approaches for bilingual lettering and poetic narrative for public space. (more…)
Mathaf Corporate Arabic–Latin Font
Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art opened its doors to contemporary Arab art lovers in December 2010 in Doha, Qatar. The museum hosts exhibitions, programs and events that explore and celebrate art by Arab artists. It is an inspiring space for dialogue and scholarship about modern and contemporary art in the region and the Arab diaspora. (more…)
UAE Embassy Corporate Type
UAE Embassy corporate font is based on the composition of the traditional Arabic Naskh Calligraphy. The font is created for the United Arabic Embassy in Washington, USA.
Nada Debs Arabic Kufi Type
This piece was created specially for “the future of tradition – the tradition of future” exhibition at hausderkunst in Munich. It challenges our perception of delicate islamic carpets. Following the trademark signature of Nada Debs, it combines elements of the Middle and Far East. (more…)
Urban Arabic Graffiti within Political Arab Crisis
My talk Urban Arabic Graffiti within Political Arab Crisis at AtypI Dublin 2010 was a continuation of the lecture about Arabic graffiti in Lebanon that i gave at Notre Dame University part of the City Street Conference on the 18th of November 2009.
“فتح” “Fateh”, Gaza. Photo taken from the book “Gaza Graffiti” for Mia Gröndahl.
Present Persian Language
During my last trip to Tehran, I was amazed by the amount of transliterated words from English and French, in the present Persian language.
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Today Posters
I was invited by The Iranian Artists Organization to be one of the international jury members for selecting the winning posters for the Today Posters competition. Detailed info about the exhibit and the winners can be found on the Today Posters Website.
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LamasaTech Logo
Simplified abstract calligraphy of the word “Lamasat”. It is the logo for LamasaTech interactive firm. (The word “lamasat” is Arabic for several touches.)
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1st Printing Press in the Middle East
The Printing press of Saint Antonius in “Quzhayya” is the first printing press in the Middle East. It is located in a monastery in the Valley of the Saints in the mountains of the north Kaza of Lebanon. According to historians, a movable type printing press was imported from England to the Saint Antonius Monastery in 1585. The first publication was the book of “Mazameer” dated from 1610, and now present in the University of the Holy Ghost in Kaslik, Jouniyé, Lebanon.
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29Letters featured on Guide to Art School’s list of the Top 50 typography blogs
29Letters has been featured on Guide to Art School’s list of the Top 50 typography blogs. The typo blogs were hand-picked to be the list of the favorite typography blogs and outlined the unique reasons why SR Education Group think they’re great. 29letters site is a unique tool for designers looking into Arabian typography and typography-related news in Arabic countries.
Arabic Chocolate Cookies
I moved in my new studio this week, and we had a small cooking party. It was fun to make Light Arabic cookie letters by hand and have them come out from the oven Extra Bold. The Arabic chocolate letters tasted great and also looked fat and awesome!
Arabic Chocolate Letters “Ghain”, “Jeem” and “Yeh”
Art Reoriented Logo / Corporate Identity
Art Reoriented, a curatorial and art consulting practice specializing in contemporary art from the Middle East, was founded by Till Fellrath and Sam Bardaouil.
Art Reoriented logotype. The word Art reads when the logo is straight, and once flipped/reoriented the word becomes Art in Arabic (فن).
Massira Spray in This Is Not a Love Song
Massira Spray, one of my graduation Arabic fonts at Type & Media / KABK, was used for This Is Not a Love Song exhibition at The Empty Quarter in DIFC in Dubai, UAE.
Khatt exhibition at the Doha Calligraphy Biennale
The Typographic Matchmaking 02 promotional/teaser posters were displayed in the Khatt Foundation section at the Waqif Art Center in Souk Waqif, Doha, Qatar. The exhibition was part of the Doha Calligraphy Biennale.
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Experimental Arabic/Latin Type Workshop
Arabic Letter “Yeh” of Seria Arabic type drawn with coffee, ink and dantelle pattern.
Students in the Advanced Typography course at the Lebanese American University [LAU] were asked to experiment with textures/patterns and try to apply them on existing bi-script Arabic/Latin fonts in-order to create their own experimental fonts. The students were handed the outlines of Seria Arabic and Fedra Arabic.
Al Maha (Oryx) Arabic Logo
The text was written by Huda AbiFares for the 2nd issue of the Oryx Magazine in its new look.
Al Maha (Oryx) Logotype
The Elegant Lightness of Arabic Calligraphy
When Agency Fish was commissioned to re-design Qatar Airways’ Oryx (Al Maha) in -flight magazine, for the logotype the company collaborated with talented Arab designers, including Pascal Zoghbi, to propose an expressive logotype that exuded modern elegance and youthful dynamism, combined with a unique Arabian travel mood.
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Arabic Logotypes , Arabic/English Logotypes & English Logotypes
The Latest Arabic Logotypes , Arabic/English Logotypes & English Logotypes created by 29letters.
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