Shaqa Bovand is a type designer who works at F37 Foundry. Born and raised in Iran, she grew up surrounded by calligraphy – ...

Born in Lebanon, she came to a career in type design initially via her graphic design studies at the American University of Beirut. This early awakening to the design possibilities for Arabic type was ...

Efforts being made to reaffirm Arab identity at corporate level Dubai: "There aren't enough Arabic typefaces," said typographer Tarek Atrissi. It wasn't so much an observation as it was a declaration.

Liron Lavi Turkenich is a freelance type designer, originally from Haifa, Israel, and graduated from Shenkar College, Tel Aviv in 2012 with a bachelors degree in Visual Communication, where she ...

Design Week: What was the initial idea behind releasing a typeface for Dubai? Nadine Chahine: The Executive Council of Dubai approached Monotype to design a custom typeface with both Arabic and Latin ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. 'Over the past years I've given many workshops on the principal of modular Arabic typography, ...

BEIRUT: For years, art directors, graphic designers and the writers and editors who occasionally poke their noses into the debate have been engaged in huge philosophical brawls over tiny technical ...

There are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet. There are four possible written forms for each letter, depending on whether it stands alone, or occurs at the beginning, middle or end of a word. Then ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise. Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a ...