A series of interviews with people who play a role in the development of technology and design for the Arabic script.
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Developing Functional Arabic Typefaces
Interview with Mohamad Dakak, Type Designer
I studied Visual Communication at the University of Fine Arts in Damascus, Syria and graduated in 2006, at the of age 22. Unfortunately, we did not have back then type design modules in the program
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Type Design Education in Reverse
Interview with Yanone (Jan Gerner), Graphic and Type Designer
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Yanone is a Dresden-born German type designer. Yanone is a one-man type design studio specialized in high quality Arabic and Latin type design, logotypes, and...
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Every day I make pencil sketches to find new…
Interview with Damoon Khanjanzadeh, type and graphic designer.
Damoon Khanjanzadeh “My background in type design originates from my learning calligraphy in childhood and at later ages. I studied graphic design at the Fine Arts University of Tehran and...
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I’m not an artist, not yet
Interview with Reza Bakhtiarifard, type designer.
Exceptional position Iran stands out from the rest; it calls itself now the Islamic Republic, putting literally religion at its cultural and political centre. The Nastaliq style was invented in Iran.
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The tough and dynamic beginning of my career…
Interview with Muhammed Hadi, graphic and type designer.
My first career steps "Even after completing all my studies, it wasn’t easy to find a job in both survey engineering as well as calligraphy. The computer era had started, and I was forced to study...
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I follow the same business model as most clipart…
Interview with Mostafa El Abasiry, graphic and type designer.
Edo Smitshuijzen: Please introduce yourself I am born in Egypt and graduated from the Fine Arts College of Alexandria University. I also hold a Master’s degree in design and creative industry...
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My heroes are the unknown scribes and artisans
Interview with Bahia Shehab, art historian, writer, educator, street artist, and designer.
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Bahia Shehab likes to advance along a wide front. At the age of 38, she managed to collect a Bachelors degree in graphic design from The American University of...
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Letter proportions in dual-script fonts.
(Latin-Arabic)
Designing fonts that combine more than one script in one font file is no longer an exceptional activity. A lot of type designers are professionally challenged by designing multiple script fonts. The...
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Arabic Lettering: the meeting point of graphic…
Interview with Tarek Atrissi, Tarek Atrissi Design.
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Tarek Atrissi is a Beirut born designer. He is founder and principal of Tarek Atrissi Design in the Netherlands. His studio specializes in cross-cultural...
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Kufin: visually interpreting the modularity of…
Interview with Lina Abdul Hadi, Senior Designer at Syntax.
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Lina Abdul Hadi is a Jordan-based graphic designer and type enthusiast, passionate about the communicative value of graphic design and its ability to convey...
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There is a strong intuitive side to designing…
Interview with Yara Khoury, Design Director at Al Mohtaraf.
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Yara Khoury is the design director at Al Mohtaraf (www.mohtaraf.com) design house, where she designs and produces major corporate identities for the Arab world
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The Arabic script can be minimalist and…
Interview with Lara Assouad, independent designer
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Lara Assouad is one of the young generation of Arab graphic and type designers. She has participated in the first design research project of the Khatt...
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Article: Multiple Baselines هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس 30 Jul 2011
Love your letters, they are your babies!
Interview with Pascal Zoghbi, independent type designer
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Pascal Zoghbi is one of the young generation of Arab type designers. He has participated in two of the design research projects of the Khatt Foundation:...
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Article: Multiple Baselines هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس 30 Jun 2011
Thuraya: an imperial font's new face
Interview with Kristyan Sarkis, independent type designer
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Kristyan Sarkis, was one of this year's Type Directors Club award winners for excellence in Typeface Design with his newly released and highly inventive font...
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I consider OpenType a proprietary font format
Interview with Adil Alawi, Director of Diwan
Part of the Multiple Baselines series
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Typefaces have a body and a soul
Interview with Nadine Chahine, Arabic specialist at Linotype and Monotype Imaging
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Nadine Chahine, can be considered the first woman Arab type designer. Born and raised in Beirut, Nadine has sailed from her Mediterranean city, one of the...
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An inventor can also respect tradition
Interview with Stéphane Boeuf, Senior Engineer at WinSoft International
Part of the Multiple Baselines series
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A Real Typographic Spring
Launching the Multiple Baselines interview series
Part of the Multiple Baselines series Multiple Baselines : a series of interviews with people who play a role in the development of technology and design for the Arabic script.