News, accounts and occasional commentary.
Signage redesign at the Vienna International Airport
In June the new Skylink (not to be confused with Skyfall or Skynet) terminal of the Vienna International Airport opened its doors and gates to the public. Planning started in the late 1990s and the construction of the extension was awarded to the architecture offices Itten-Brechbühl from Switzerland and the Vienna branch of Baumschlager-Eberle. Due […]
Aéroports de Lyon, vous avez besoin de moi
Last week I spent an enjoyable 2 days in Lyon, visiting Alice Savoie at the interesting Musée de l’imprimerie de Lyon to further my research on the evolution of Arabic type. It was a delightful stay with great company, friendly people and lovely food (Merci Luc!). Yet, the airport’s welcome sign made me shudder. You […]
Post-Diplôme Amiens, class of 2011
Amiens, Picardie. A year has passed again and a new class of post-diplôme students leaves the ESAD Amiens. On Wednesday, February 8, they presented the results of their roughly 16 months of research and design work to the jury consisting of the invited Dr Fiona Ross, Thomas Huot-Marchand and the school’s regular teachers. The biggest […]
2011 and onwards
On Thursday, January 26, Typographica posted its most recent best-of-list of typeface releases for the year 2011. I am honoured that Nassim is included in this selection of excellent creations, and feel particularly humbled in view of some of the worthy honourable mentions. Thierry Blancpain’s review is enlightening and critical at once, succinct and without […]
Nassim among winners of ATypI’s Letter.2 competition
The Nassim typeface family has been awarded another design prize. After receiving prior honours from the Type Directors Club and the European Design Awards in 2007, and the London-based Design Museum in 2008, Nassim features now among the 53 entries that have been selected for their design excellence by the ATypI jury, formed of prominent […]
Nassim carries BBC Persian news
London: The BBC Persian website follows its Arabic sister site in choosing Nassim to deliver its news. It is thus the second World Service language site with a ‘complex script’ that implements the BBC’s new global visual language with its specific focus on typography as the primary design element. An honourable role and a […]
Post-diplôme ESAD graduates and opens its doors
Amiens, Picardie. On the 8th of February 2011, the latest post-diplôme of the ESAD in Amiens finished its one-year-and-a-bit long cycle of studies, practice and research. Under the scrutiny of the invited external jurors Jo de Baerdemaeker and Olivier Nineuil, the two students Alisa Nowak and Damien Collot presented the results of their stay at […]
BBC Arabic: Nassim sets news
London: Following the redesign of the mother-page of the BBC News in July last year, today the BBC Arabic launched their new website. It is probably one of the first, and certainly the biggest site yet to use webfonts – Arabic webfonts that is. Typography as a defining element of the site This is an […]
Rosetta opens its gates
Today, on January 11, 2011, the new digital typefoundry Rosetta, dedicated to multilingual typography has launched its website. Admitted, my personal view on Rosetta is slightly biased as they are going to distribute my typefaces Aisha and Nassim. Yet, I figure I had good reasons to choose collaborating with Rosetta in the first place, and […]
ESAV Marrakesh, November 2010
My first visit for the academic year 2010-11 reconnects with the same bunch of students I taught earlier this year in March and May. On the first day the students, now in their third year (which also designates the third year of the graphic department of the ESAV) will continue to develop their skills and […]