News, accounts and occasional commentary.
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 […]
Aisha nominated for the German Design Prize and a little website update
The nomination of Aisha for the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany already dates back a few weeks, but I only lately decided not to participate in the final competition which delayed the announcement of her nomination. Although I was slightly disappointed that some of the formalities of the competition did not allow […]
ESAD Amiens calls for post-diplôme applications
The ésad in Amiens opens a new round of applications for the post-diplôme programme “typography and language”. In its 4th year, the programme takes a more explicit line with a clear focus on typeface design. Current student projects, ongoing research and staff specialisations supported this development. Small classes, international staff with a multidisciplinary outlook and […]
ICTVC 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus
The biannual ICTVC conference is going to start next week in Nicosia, Cyprus. From the 15. to the 19. of June, a series of workshops and the three-day main conference will discuss this year’s theme of ‘Lending grace to language’. It is the fourth time this conference on typography takes place and the first time […]
back in Marrakech with a prize in the pocket
I am back at the ESAV in Marrakech for another week of type education with the second year students in the Laboratoire Expérimental de Typographie Arabe. During my first week in March we worked with stencils, as I described briefly in this earlier post. However, the stencil work, chosen to add a manual component to […]
TDC² 2010 award for Aisha
The TDC² 2010 awards have just been announced and I am very happy for two reasons. Firstly, my latest typeface Aisha, a multiscript Arabic and Latin typeface, has been awarded a certificate of excellence in type design. After Nassim’s 2007 award in the same category, I am very pleased that Aisha is seen as a […]