“Every curve and shape is a choice, not decoration,” Shaqa Bovand on the art of Arabic type design

English typography, by contrast, was largely shaped by the printing press in the West, while Arabic letterforms evolved through lithography and scribal practices. The complexity and fluidity of Arabic ...
insider.si.edu

Letters of light : Arabic script in calligraphy, print, and digital design / J.R. Osborn

Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh, the style most commonly used across the Middle East, ...
The Hoya

The Art of Arabic Script

One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...
Hyperallergic

A Designer Fuses Arabic and Hebrew to Create a New Script

JERUSALEM — On June 11, Israeli typeface designer and professor Liron Lavi Turkenich found herself teaching a new student: her country’s president, Reuven Rivlin. Turkenich, a 32-year-old professor of ...
Gulf Today

Tashkeel presents calligraphy creations of master calligrapher Wissam Shawkat

Hala Badri, Director General of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), visited the ‘Al Wissam Script’ exhibition ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Warming relations between Israel and Arab countries creates new application for Aravrit, script that combines Hebrew and Arabic

A sculpture featuring Aravrit forms the centerpiece of the Israel pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai. (JTA) — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic ...