The TypoArabic research project concluded on 3 June 2022, and I am delighted to announce that its principal output, the edited volume Arabic Typography: History and Practice, has now been published by niggli. As foreshadowed in a post on the TypoArabic blog in June 2021, a group of esteemed colleagues were invited to contribute chapters […]
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 […]
Over the last months, three new publications arrived at my doorstep: the two annuals 365 Typo and the Year Book of Type 2, and the journal ‘LetterSeed’. While the two former books feature my Lammerhuber typeface for the Austrian photography publishing house, in ‘LetterSeed’ I was invited to write a paragraph about my multilingual typefaces […]