Imarat Headlines Arabic Type

Imarat is an Arabic newspaper type family consisting of “Imarat Headlines” & “Imarat Text”. “Imarat Headlines” is a display type for use in the headlines and titling of a newspaper, while “Imarat Text” is for the copy text of the newspaper. “Imarat Headlines” will be exclusive for 3 years for “Emarat Al Youm” newspaper in Dubai starting from 2008. The newspaper needed a new, young and crispy headlines type that will appeal to their young readers. You can see the font in use on the online e-paper version of “Emarat Al Youm” newspaper.

TheMix Arabic

TheMix Arabic is one of the five new Arabic typefaces that was included in the Typographic Matchmaking Project organized by the Khatt Foundation. Lucas de Groot and Mouneer Al-Shaarani initially designed TheMix Arabic, but when the type needed to be finalized and transformed into a proper Arabic type, I was asked by Huda AbiFares to undertake the font from this point on since Mouneer is a calligrapher and not an Arabic type designer, and Lucas does not know the Arabic script.

Culture Exchange Graffiti / Beirut-Berlin

I was contacted by Don R. Kari after he saw the Lebanese Graffiti post on my blog. Don Kari is a german graffiti artist. He and his german graffiti colleagues initiated a project in Cuba and now they want to do the project in Beirut. You can have a look on the graffiti project in Cuba at the following link: CubaBrazil

EL HEMA at Mediamatic, Amsterdam.

August was a great experience for five young Arabic graphic designers (fresh graduates) from the Arab world and I. The 24th of August was the “Khatt Kufi Kaffiya” symposium on Arabic Visual Culture, the official launching of the Khatt Foundation website and the launching and book signing of the Typographic Matchmaking book. Alongside these events, Mediamatic initiated an exhibition to team up Arabic typographers with Dutch design and culture. The exhibition was to create an Arabic version of the famous HEMA Dutch stores.

Design of the White Scarf by Kj using Sada Bold. The text on it is the lyrics or the song “YA Maré’ 3al Taya7een” for Fairuz.

Wael, Kj, Maria, Ray, Abi (the 5 young Arabic graphic designers) and I were invited by Mediamatic to come to Amsterdam for 6 weeks before the opening of the EL HEMA exhibition to work on the making of this exhibition.

Kufi Workshop for non-Arab participants in Amsterdam

On the 28th and 29th of August I gave a workshop for non-Arab participants during the El Hema Exhibition at the Mediamatic Workshop area.

You can read more about the workshop in the following links:
Kufi Workshop in Amsterdam at Mediamatic, Amsterdam.
Brief intro of the Kufi Workshop

Giving some comments on the primarily kufi patterns.

Here are some pictures. Enjoy.