With Alef, Michal Sahar and Danny Meirav officially ended the monocracy of Arial, what was once the only web font for Hebrew. At TYPO Berlin, Michal provided the audience with broad insights into the design research for Fedra Serif Hebrew, a case study for matchmaking multi-script type design.
Kufic is the oldest Arabic script and is deeply rooted in the Islam. Still it is unclear to this day how calligraphers and professional copyists exactly wrote it. Based on this question, participants of this workshop were asked to interpret the Kufic letterforms and in the end create stencils out of it.
When it comes to Arabic logo design, you will most often find it accompanied by Latin text. But it takes a great deal of sensitivity to combine two different scripts into a harmonic design. During the Bilingual Arabic & Latin Monogram Design workshop, Tarek Atrissi challenged the participants to meld Latin and Arabic characters into unique and aesthetically pleasing typographical designs.
Ihr Vortrag wirft spannende Fragen auf: Wie kann ein globales Miteinander – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – aussehen? In welcher Form können die polyphonen Zusammenhänge dieser Welt kommuniziert werden? Das ästhetische Projekt gibt den Impuls für einen interessanten Gedanken.
