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Orientalia : Lead, Light and Letters
Exhibition on Arabo-Dutch Type Design from the 17th-21st Century.
A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and understanding between the West and the Arab world, and put the topic in broader historical and cultural context. This traveling exhibition
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Samah El Hakim
I have been born and raised in an artistic family. I tend to forget myself in nature, colors, forms, words, letters... I find an old rusting tin container, against a sun-lit window during a late
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Traffic Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
Project Mulsaq, Dubai exhibition
13nov 20085dec 2008The limited edition collection is available for sale in main major design outlets in the UAE – including Traffic and 50ºC – and on line at www.diadiwan.com
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Shakloh magazine
Online Visual PDF Magazine For Arab Artists
SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, calligraphers, typographers, and photographers. Each issue is...
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Nazar
Photographs From The Arab World
Edited by Wim Melis. Essays by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Issam Nassar, Isolde Brielmaier, Issa Touma, Peter Lewis and Sherifa Zuhur.
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Colors of Time
A burst of healing colors, a mixture of blissful emotions and an attempt to allow some thoughts to run free...
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Ibraheem Youssef
is sometimes likened to a massive orange sphere rolling upwards at varying velocities on a highway destined for enlightment.
I believe we can project a positive stereotype of our culture utilizing our beautiful Arabic Language. I'm an Egyptian/Canadian Art Director currently based in Toronto, Canada.
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tousue vang
i'm currently a student at the minneapolis college of art design, minnesota, usa. my greatest hopes in life are to live, love, inspire, and play.
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michael scott
آنا سكران وفي الكآس بقية
translating "tarmee bisharar " by abdo khal into English for Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, publication date expected Jan 2012. Also occasionally teach Arabic to high school students in the...
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Rachid El Mousati
I am a graphic designer and artist, I live in Brussels.
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Alessandro Ludovico
chief editor of Neural magazine
Alessandro Ludovico, born in Italy in 1969, lives and works in Bari. He is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine from 1993, (Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2004). He is the...
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ahmad bedair
i am a Mac
Ahmed Bedair born in Cairo, Egypt in 1982, He received a bachelor degree of Fine Art in field of Graphic printmaking Design from Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University 2003. Since graduation, Based...
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Narges Safaei
Graphic Designer and Typographer
1981: Born in Tehran, Iran 2002: The first Sooreh fine arts student exhibition – Niavaran gallery – Tehran 2004: The second Iranian typography exhibition – Iranian artists...
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Vladimir Tamari
As a student at AUB around 1960 I was interested in the Bauhaus and felt the Arab world deserves a similar design revolution. Influenced by Eric Gill's book 'Typography' and his type-design 'Gill...
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MohammadAli Khafaji
Graphic Designer, Art Director
Born 1986 in Isfahan. Student of Ghobad Shiva's Institute (2006-08). Participant of 9th Tehran Biennial of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design (2007). Finalist of International Contest "To Death with...
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Ercan Mensiz
I'm an Ophthalmology specialist but have been working on calligraphy reproductions since childhood and computer calligraphy vectorization since early 1990's. My main interest areas are Ottoman Sultan...
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Morteza Shamissa
Graphic Designer, Typographer, Calligrapher
Born: 1978 Educated in Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University 2001 Education in YORK university and work in Canada 2003 -2005 Establishing AFRAFORM in Tehran 2005 Working professionally in...
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Ali Ettehad
- Born in 1983, Sari, Iran - Pre-University of arts, Sari, Iran 1999-2000 - B.A in Cinema, Art University of Tehran, Iran 2001-2005 - Studied...
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Artur Schmal
Typedesigner
Artur Schmal (b. Netherlands, 1976; www.workforthemasses.com) graduated in 2003 with a master’s degree in design from the Type and Media course at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Since then he...
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Noora Al Ghussain
Not only a reflection, its more of an obsession
Born in Palestine, but lived all her life in the U.A.E, Noora came from a family that's not only talented but also appreciates art in all its forms. Since she was a child; she read fairytales, books
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zeinab rida
graphic designer
I was born on July 27th 1987 in Lebanon. I am a graphic design student in LIU. I believe that beauty exists beyond every corner of this life so let us just see, hear, touch, and create our own...
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Charlotte Bank
Researcher, curator and writer living between Berlin and (untill 2011) Damascus. Currently, I hold a doctoral position at the university of Geneva, focusing on the emerging contemporary art scene in...
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Annelys de Vet
critical graphic design
Annelys de Vet is a cricital graphic designer, working in Brussels and Amsterdam. In 2007 she made the 'Subjective Atlas of Palestine'.
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Munther Jaber