‘Internationally Austrian’, published in TYPO 41, 84–85, 2010 My fascination with typography and typeface design had its beginnings during my studies at the Graphische in Vienna, one of Austria’s leading design schools. As it is often the case, it was not the institution as a whole, but the influence of one teacher that had […]
‘Nassim’, published in Philizot, Vivien (ed.), “Langage et typographie”, Livraisons 13, 122–125, (2010). Nassim is a contemporary text typeface for Arabic and Latin script. The core concept of Nassim is to conceive a design that facilitates multilingual text setting in which both scripts appear balanced and harmonious. The main concern was to create both […]
My review of Edo Smitshuijzen’s Arabic Font Specimen Book was first published in English and Czech language in TYPO, No. 36, 2009. Nour Maalla kindly translated the text into Arabic, and it is published here for the first time. تعقّد هولندي بالعربية نقد كتاب نماذج الفونتات العربية ذاع صيت الكاتب إيدو سميتسهوزن في تصميم […]
First published in English and Czech language in TYPO, No. 36, 2009 Arabic Font Specimen Book review Edo Smitshuijzen is known for his work in signage design. His portfolio lists a considerable record of projects in this field and he recently published a signage design manual. Since he is neither a typographer nor a […]
‘Reading 2006’, published in TYPO 24, 22–31, 2007. I started to work on Nassim with two straightforward and practical aspirations: firstly, I wanted to learn how to design type; and secondly, I wanted to make the most of the opportunity to spend a whole year working on a single big project. I wanted to […]