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Tag: Arabic Typography

October 10, 2019

Introducing TypoArabic

When creating a document with text in the Arabic script on a computer, the process is all but identical to the one for a Latin script text. There is a rectangular text area, usually defined by margins, that is filled with text, just like a basin is filled with water. Subject to the features of […]

announcements, Arabic Type, Arabic Typography, History, Research
July 10, 2017

Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age announced

Last week I have submitted print-ready and ebook-ready files of my book Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age: The influence of Technology on the Form of Arabic Type 1908–1993, which is going to be published by the Dutch publisher Brill next month. As the blurb says without any false modesty, this is the first in-depth […]

announcements, Arabic Type, Arabic Typography, History, Literature, PhD, publication, Research
April 29, 2013

Type in unusual use or a sneak peek on a new Arabic typeface

In August 2012 I was contacted by Dafi Kühne, a colleague from Zürich. He needed a hand with some Arabic typesetting for a large poster project that was to feature at the 13th international Architecture exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia, 2012. Dafi is a poster designer and printer, and initially only needed help with […]

Arabic Type, Arabic Typography, Multilingual, Multiscript, Plakat, Poster, Print
October 20, 2011

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 […]

Arabic Type, Arabic Typography, Award, Nassim
April 19, 2011

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 […]

Arabic Type, Arabic Typography, BBC, Iran, Persian, redesign
January 27, 2011

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 […]

Arabic Type, Arabic Typography, BBC, Nassim, redesign
January 12, 2011

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 […]

announcements, Arabic Typography, Multilingual, Multiscript, Rosetta
November 1, 2010

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 […]

Arabic Type, Arabic Typography, ESAV, Marrakesh, workshop
May 17, 2010

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 […]

Arabic Typography, ESAV, Marrakech

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