Since Aisha was conceived some fourteen years ago, Arabic type design has advanced and broadened. Now there are more and more diverse contributions to the field, yet the Maghrebi style remains a minority interest. Only a few new typefaces that follow one or the other variant of this style have been published since, and whilst […]
The last time this site received a structural update dates a few years back, and so does the last update of content. Now some required technical maintenance provided an opportunity to address both. Elena Ramirez, who developed the site originally and is now one half of Ashler Design, kindly agreed to work on the facelift […]
At the recent Face/Interface exhibition (for which the domain must have bought before settling on the show’s final name), and the concomitant conference organised at the library of the Stanford University, participants were invited to give their take on the following question: ‘Non-Latin’ is a peculiar term, defined negatively rather than affirmatively—by what it […]
In a first for this website, today I have re-published a text written by someone else; and I am very pleased that it is no lesser contributor than Dr Fiona Ross, whose ‘Non-Latin Type at Linotype’ is made accessible again. Originally written and presented at the First annual Friends of St Bride conference, 24 & […]
On May 17, 2006, I was in the process of defining Arabic mark positions for Nassim in a roundabout process involving a dummy FontLab MultipleMaster file, custom export scripts and Microsoft’s beloved Visual OpenType Layout Tool – VOLT. I was a Master’s student at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of […]
On March 9, 2016, I will give a talk at The Basel School of Design. I am honoured to be the first speaker in a lecture series on Multiscript Typography which features the Swiss foundry Dinamo, Gerry Leonidas, Birgit Mersmann, Roman Wilhelm and Vaibhav Singh. My talk has the title ‘There is nothing Arabic about […]
From July 23 to 25, the Granshan Conference is going into its third reiteration. This year, it will be hosted by the University of Reading’s Department of Typography & Graphic Communication (not in its derelict, yet charming premises, but in the University’s business school – a more presentable venue). The Department’s standing as a ‘hub […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]