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Book هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس, Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Bahia Shehab, Soukeina Hachem
Revealin Recording Reflecting
Graphic Women from Southwest Asia and North Africa
Since the 1950s, women designers in the SWANA region have had a shy presence in the discourses on design and visual culture—specially in comparison with their male contemporaries. In response to the...
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Book Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui
The First Lebanese Woman Designer to Brand her Nation
Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui is a Lebanese artist, born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1945. In the early 1960s, she moved with her family to Lebanon and joined the American University of Beirut for two years
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Book هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس, Nagla Samir
Mouneer Al-Shaarani
Against the Grain: Exploring the Scope of the Arabic Letter
Mouneer Al-Shaarani is a prolific and highly acclaimed Syrian calligrapher and designer. He was born on September 6, 1952, in Salamiya, Syria. He began his calligraphic apprenticeship at a young...
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Book haytham nawar
Nagy Shaker
An Experimental Graphic Artist of the Egyptian Avant-Garde
Nagy Shaker (1932–2018) was an Egyptian design pioneer born in the suburbs of Cairo. He is one of the most influential figures in the history of modern Egyptian design. He is also considered the...
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Book هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس
Inner Structures — Outer Rhythms
Contemporary Arab & Persian Graphic Design
The growing interest in graphic design from the less-known parts of the world has grown in recent years. The work of designers from around the globe is gaining attention. The power of graphic design...
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Book Edo Smitshuijzen
Arabic Font Specimen Book 2
Arabic typography exists in a universe of extremes: considered by some as holy but more often painfully neglected, mysterious and elusive but also an unmistakable cultural icon. It is based on the...
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Book هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس, John Kortbaoui FISTD
Imprimerie Catholique 1848–2000
The Catholic Press of Beirut: A Printing & Design Legacy in the Arab East
Imprimerie Catholique 1848–2000, The Catholic Press of Beirut: A Printing & Design Legacy in the Arab East explores the history of this remarkable independent press through its editorial and design...
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Book هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس
ARABIC TYPOGRAPHY
A Revised and Concise Sourcebook
In the twenty-first century, the widespread integration of computer technologies has brought text-based information into many facets of everyday life. This has caused an ever-growing interest in...
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Book Edo Smitshuijzen
Khatt Items
Customized Typographic Products
The main objective of the author in creating this publication is to revive the age-old tradition in the Arab and Islamic world of using text on everything that surrounds us, from architecture to...
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The Papyrus Gang / إحنا بتوع البردي
By Abla elBahrawy
Have you ever wondered why papyrus paper was produced only in Egypt? Since the invention of a secret method to create it from the papyrus plant almost 4,000 years ago, and since its use as a material...
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Book Todd Reisz
Off Center / On Stage
Published at the same time as Dubai hosts the World Expo, this book demonstrates that the city has long been a site of exhibition. Dozens of unpublished photographs fill this volume to examine...
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Book Edo Smitshuijzen
Islamic Vases Reconstructed
Vases are practically as old as humanity. Each world culture created its own traditional version of containers. Also the Islamic culture had their own types of vases in which the Arabic script...
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Book Raghda Moataz
Absolute Egypt
How Graphic Design Tells the Story of a Culture
Raghda Moataz is a young Egyptian graphic designer. Her final thesis was about the visual culture of Egypt as seen through the eyes of a graphic design student. Two years later, she transformed her...
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Book Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Saloua Raouda Choucair: Modern Arab Design, An…
The 5th in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books
Exploring a large range of materials, she combined her knowledge in science, Islamic geometry, engineering and poetry to produce many of the design works made over a period of five decades. Despite...
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Book Lara Balaa
Emile Menhem: Invigorating Arab Journalism…
The 6th in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books
He entered the graphic design profession by way of political engagement, when he started producing posters for the Lebanese Communist Party in the 1970s. He was simply drawn to design practice which...
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Book هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس
Kameel Hawa: The Art of Shaping Arabic Letters
The 5th in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books
Hawa approaches design as a cultural mission and, in his words, his studio was more “than a mere company,” it was a place “where designing with thoughtful, artistic passion is a core value.” In...
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كتاب: Lina Hakim
Dia Al-Azzawi, Taking a Stand: Activism Through…
The fourth in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books. Dia al-Azzawi is a renown Iraqi contemporary artist whose graphic design work is largely undocumented. This book is a concise and highly...
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كتاب: Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Abdulkader Arnaout, Designing as Visual Poetry
A Pioneer of Graphic Design in Syria
The third in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books. It is a concise and highly illustrated bilingual account (in English and Arabic) of the Syrian modernist graphic designer, typographer
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كتاب: Yara Khoury Nammour
نصري خطار، مهندسًا خطوطيًا حداثًيا
مُحاربة الأمّية بالتصميم الخطوطي
الكتاب الثاني من سلسلة "مكتبة التصميم العربي" هذا الكتاب المختصر ولكن الغني بالرسوم والصور، يعرض سيرة المهندس-التيپوغرافي اللنبناني(المهندس الخطوطي) الذي سعى بشغف لدمقرطة المعرفة: ومُحاربة الأمّية...
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كتاب: Yasmine Nachabe Taan
حلمي التوني، استحضار الثقافة العربية الشعبية
رسوم تصويرية، تخطيط حروف، تصميم كتب
الكتاب الأول من سلسلة "مكتبة التصميم العربي" هذا الكتاب المختصر ولكن الغني بالرسوم والصور، يعرض سيرة أحد أشهر وأمهر الرسامين التصويريين ومصممي الكتب في العالم العربي، وذلك بالغتين العربية...
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كتاب: هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس, Edo Smitshuijzen
El Hema
Graphic design for social change
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كتاب: Bahia Shehab
A Thousand Times No
A Visual History of the Lam-Alif
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كتاب: هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس
Arabic Type Design for Beginners
A bilingual and illustrated guidebook to Arabic type design
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كتاب: Edo Smitshuijzen
Sculpting Type
An Introduction to CNC Typography
An essential and inspiring book on 3D Typography that explains the basic and varied manufacturing technologies, among which 3D printing.
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كتاب: هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس
Typographic Matchmaking in the City
Propositions for a Pluralist Public Space
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Book Edo Smitshuijzen 1 Jan 2008
Arabic Font Specimen Book
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Book هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس 1 Jan 2001
Arabic Typography
A comprehensive sourcebook