Dim the lights and put your sound on! My debut collection 2020: After the Fall is now live! You can see it here:
And make sure to explore the exhibit!
#new
#Arabictype
#typography
#fonts
@lemonfresh02
He had to laminate because they are getting bombed and having to move constantly. Paper gets shredded very quickly and he was hoping for a future for his twins where they would live past this horror.
This story broke me...
I mentor a most brilliant designer!!! Omaima is a Palestinian who lives in East Jerusalem under occupation. This is her final year project, a protest typeface, and itโs beyond gorgeous ๐๐๐๐
That feeling when your typeface is projected on the tallest building in the world!!! Yesterday marked the launch of Bloomberg's Asharq Business for which I designed a custom Arabic typeface and the logo typography:
The
@BBCNews
has turned into the Johnson family newsletter. Who gives a fuck what Stanley Johnson thinks? The guy who thought we should ignore medical advice & still go to pubs?? Almost 8000 British people have died, weโre in a crisis & this is the leading story??
#coronavirusuk
BIG NEWS ALERT: I'm leaving my job after 13 years at Linotype then Monotype. As of April 1, I am free... Very excited about the future! More time to design and study. More politics! I'm taking a break at first then will slowly start setting up my own thing. Stay tuned :)
Third-world migrant, PhD, 2 masters degrees including Cambridge, award-winner, 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012, 50 Top Creative Directors in UK in 2017. Fuck your bullshit racism and xenophobia.
๐Would you like to take your Arabic type design level to the next level? Come study with me!
I'm giving an intermediate course in Arabic type design starting September, as part of the
@ilovetypography
Academy.
Call for entries, so please share widely! In support of the victims of the
#BeirutExplosion
we are putting together a typeface that combines drawings from both the Lebanese & the global community of type designers. A big heartfelt thank u to everyone who already said yes! Thread:
In memory of my dad who passed away a year ago today, I designed this typeface called Sawad as an exploration of grief, and the hollowness that follows the loss of a loved one. The font is now freely available to you all, a loving gift in his memory:
About the company that "values type"
During my employment I was repeatedly asked to design another version of my best selling Frutiger Arabic so that the company would not have to pay me royalties on OEM deals.
I was asked to rip off my own design. There I've said it.
It is with great sadness that I share with you the news of the passing of Frau Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Wife, friend, and lifelong companion of Prof. Zapf, Frau Zapf was an award winning typographer, type designer, calligrapher, and book binder. Rest in peace.
Would any of my designer friends and followers like me to give a public talk about the Israeli Palestinian conflict and how we got to recent events? I am happy to put something together very quickly.
@vonderleyen
@EU_Commission
Any comments on apartheid? Or the horrific conditions Palestinians have to endure on a daily basis?
To be silent is to be complicit.
Hi
@Monotype
! We were glad to hear that you plan to offer transparency to foundries & that you're hosting a webinar about royalties on Wednesday.
Foundries are coming to us with questions about royalties on Monotype Fonts so we thought to pass them on to you...
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Iโm honored to announce that Iโve been elected to the
@typedirectors
board and yesterday was our first board meeting. I am unbelievably excited to be able to serve this great institution dedicated to excellence in typography โค๏ธ
My poster with
@typeji
for the
#designacrossborders
exhibit in Barcelona! You can buy these posters to help buy dignity kits for 277 Syrian women and girls here:
I drew this Beh for a promo video for my upcoming course for
@ilovetypography
. Will post the video tomorrow, but here's the question:
Should I turn it into a full typeface? The proportion is so cute!!
@dog_rates
For Roy and all the lost pets in Gaza ๐
And for all their loving humans too ๐
Thank you for this message of consolation and for your help xx
Among a fine collection of
@TheNewEuropean
front covers this one of Kamikwaze Kwarteng right up there โฆ pissing all over their own country and the people they are meant to be there to serve
Monotype slashes royalties to foundries from 50% down to 25% with its font subscription service, raises prices for customers by up to 10 times, & in the meantime its value is potentially up from $825M to $4 billion.
You are all invited to my debut collection launch for my ArabicType foundry!! It features a total of 7 typeface families, incl. one by guest designer
@OmaimaDajani
& I'm really excited to finally share all this with you!
#Arabicfonts
#Arabictypography
Designer friends and followers: I asked if you'd like me to give a talk about the background of what is happening in Palestine-Israel and you've said yes! So, I will be giving a talk tomorrow at 6pm UK time. Sign up here please:
Hello world! The
@FontLiBeirut
raises funds for victims of the Beirut blast and in return you get a gorgeous typeface by some of the best designers working today plus other goodies. Please support us if you can โค๏ธ
#BeirutExplosion
#Beirut
#FontLiBeirut
New video just dropped! Those who know me know that I like to draw at midnight. The quiet of the night is best suited to the meditative side of type design when all is still and you can lose yourself in the black of the letterforms.
Also, this typeface is going to kick ass ๐ช
@jamessouttar
@joshruebner
Check the facts first. The mufti was appointed by Egypt and had no real powers. The Palestinians did not choose him and itโs quite disingenuous to try to connect the Palestinian struggle for self-determination with the atrocities of the Nazis.
Special day today!! I signed my first art prints of my Sawad poster. Dedicated to my dad, it features the words โila abiโ which is Arabic for โto my dadโ
I designed my Sawad typeface in the period following my dadโs passing and itโs an exploration of the darkness of grief.
4 years ago Trump got elected on my birthday and I spent the next day crying because I knew how bad he would be. Today I found out he was defeated while I was waiting to pick up balloons for my birthday tomorrow. Could not ask for a better birthday gift!
#USAelection2020
A colleague sent me this picture of the last time I saw Prof. Hermann Zapf when he signed off on Zapfino Arabic. That was Nov 2014 and he passed away a few months later. But what a beautiful moment to remember how much I had enjoyed working with him โค๏ธ
@ASE
@FarhaFilm
There's a video circulating today of a Palestinian man being shot and killed at close range by an Israeli policeman. Maybe we show them that so they see how the cold-blood murder of Palestinians continues till today?
The award-winning designer of Lifta, a protest typeface against Israeli occupation & the erasure of Palestinian identity, was hit by a rubber bullet yesterday.
@OmaimaDajani
is ok but 3 of her friends lost their eyes & one had his skull fractured by these bullets.
#SavePalestine
๐จBig News: In 4 weeks I will launch my 1st library collection of 7 typeface families (3 branding+4 display). My favorite of the branding families is Amareddine & here is the crazy bit: Every week I will share more about it & we start from 0 base price with pay-what-u-can model!
We know that you think our lives are less worthy. We know.
This is the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was killed, on purpose and with impunity, by Israeli snipers. Then they violated her funeral.
This was a defining moment for violence against Palestinians. Not a single celebrity or politician took to social media or the news to express outrage at this. The whole world watched this atrocity with their own eyes and DID NOT CARE ONE BIT
I have 152 submissions so far and another 59 to get through! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted. The typeface is looking great and if I can do it in this marathon weekend, will launch very very soon!!!!!! ๐๐
#liBeirutfont
#BeirutBlast
#Beirut
#LettersOfHope
This is due to directional bias that comes from the direction of reading. If u read mostly in a script from left to right you expect actions in the real world to go in the same direction too. You even scan and perceive the world in the same direction. So itโs not just alcohol ๐
Dear
@Adobe
, please observe the confusion sowed by poor terminology in your apps. โOpticalโ is actually algorithmic, and โmetricsโ is optically and laboriously designed and crafted by the font creator. Weโve raised these issues many times. About time you fixed them.
@ladbible
Says the guy who raped a child.
Not just raped, no no. Got on an airplane and flew across the North Sea, then commuted, AND THEN raped a child.
@Tennis
@ptbodo
Domestic violence allegations that he strangled the mother of his child, found guilty and fined 450,000 euros, then appealed the fine, then settled out of court is not "somewhat checkered past."
Iโm very thrilled to share that my work is going to be part of the collection at the Museum fรผr Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. To mark this occasion Iโm giving a talk on my 20 years in the type world. I hope you can all attend!
You can sign up here for free:
The first interview where I speak so openly about my previous employer and what I had witnessed during my 13 year tenure.
"A famous type foundryโs sale to a PE-backed giant has rattled the font industry"
A very special project! I'm very honoured to share that I consulted renowned neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer on Arabic typography for her installation at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The font used is my Amareddine, published in Nov 2020.
Really love how it's used & the reflections!
My students make the same mistakes in every course I've taught so far, so today we created a bingo card to remind them of what to do and what not to do ๐
What is CEDARS+? It's a type description system that describes typefaces based on their formal qualities. You can see it in action here:
And read my intro article here:
In this thread I will go over its most important aspects.
1/n
Ladies and gentlemen, my protest font is now ready for you to download! Please say hello to my newest typeface Kafa which is Arabic for ENOUGH: a protest font against Trump's politics of hate and division. You can download it for free here:
#Midterms2018
Iโm signing off Twitter till I decide which country to move to. A future in the UK is so difficult to imagine right now. Johnson said on Tuesday that for too long EU migrants treated this country like one of theirs. Well, fuck him and the xenophobia he breeds.
And you know what
@Monotype
, youโve had a shit record dealing with creatives for a very long time. But how dare you pretend that you think creatives are so important when you laid off some of your best type designers *during* a pandemic. What utter hypocrisy and bullshit.
New typeface alert!! The last typeface that I designed for Linotype/Monotype is Avenir Arabic and it's now released! I'm particularly fond of this one so I hope you'll like it too ๐
You can get it here:
#Arabic
#typography
#fonts
#NewRelease
I am thinking to give an online course in Arabic type design starting January and going on for 10 weeks. Who's interested and how much do you think I should charge?
The fun thing about designing a crazy typeface is that the first time you export the font, the text is simultaneously car crash AND super interesting! This is going to need a lot of polishing...
Back to working on this typeface and will do nothing else till I finish it. An exploration of grief that I started last year in the weeks after my dad's passing. How does it feel to you? It is as black as I know how to draw.
The Dal is one of my favourite letters to draw! It's also one of the easiest so if you're at beginner levels it's a good character to tackle as it won't give you too much trouble. Easier to nail the concept in easy to draw letters than tough ones like medial Heh!
With regards to the
@alphabettes_org
article, I take it as a matter of principle that the circumstances of your birth should not limit your career options. Not race, not gender, & not nationality. I believe in education & collaboration to build bridges, not building border walls.
My final typeface project at Monotype is Avenir Arabic. It reads so well and I'm working hard to finish it on time. One of my best designs to date and a fitting cap to the wonderful years I spent working there. There is a lot of love in this design. Hope you'll like it!
@henrichaoul
Largest recipient of US Aid with billions in support every year + apartheid built on the premise of land theft and violent oppression and dispossession. That you life this up as exemplary says enough.
If the Pope were to say this in Germany, he'd get arrested.
Tells you everything you need to know about anti-Palestinian bias that is ripping through Germany.
Pope Francis says that what is happening in Gaza-Israel is not a โwarโ.
Francis says it has progressed to sheer terrorism.
Pope Francis is correct.
Big news! My work is going into the permanent collection of a museum that I can't yet tell you about.
But I can tell you that I am thinking to print this poster in silkscreen, likely on uncoated and dark coloured paper.
Would anyone like a copy, and how much should I charge?
Today I submitted my thesis
@Cambridge_Uni
and am tired, happy, sad and everything in the middle! Finally finished my MSt. in International Relations & Iโve loved every minute of it. Also, now that Iโm done writing I want to use all the adjectives I deleted for word count ๐
Imagine tear gas & stun grenades being fired inside St. Peter's in Rome while worshippers were praying on Good Friday.
But the reality is a decades long suspension of human rights and dignities for Palestinians living under military occupation. History will judge your silence.
Insane. Israeli security firing tear gas & stun grenades **inside** Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
Footage from this morning (May 10) as clashes continue in Jerusalem, on eve of Ramadan:
It looks like the final number will be more than 300 glyphs!!! I'm sorting through everything now and tomorrow will share some exciting updates!! This is more than a font!!! Sending lots of hugs and love to all who have supported this initiative!
#Beirut
#LettersOfHope
My protest typeface KAFA is free for download here:
I designed it to protest Trump, but
@NancyAjram
used it for a concert during the first lockdown, and a friend wanted to use it for a chicken shop so who really knows where fonts will end up๐คทโโ๏ธ
Tomorrow I launch my debut collection for my independent foundry ArabicType! 3 people will win the whole collection as a gift, and to top it all: I'm also opening a virtual exhibit that features 3 typefaces from the collection.
Sign up here:
On Monday I started my online Arabic type design course with 10 participants from Algeria, Oman, Saudi, UAE, Iraq, Bahrain, Egypt, Poland, and China! Fantastic start and happy to bring such a nice group together.
#arabictype
"Today, I traded two of my children for two of my brother's children. If the occupiers bomb [my house] today, some of my children will survive. If they bomb [my brothers' house] today, some of his children will survive."