A series of interviews with people who play a role in the development of technology and design for the Arabic script.
Multiple Baselines
HudaArabic Lettering: the meeting point of graphic and typographic design
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…
There is a strong intuitive side to designing typefaces
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…
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…
EdoI consider OpenType a proprietary font format
Interview with Adil Alawi, Director of Diwan
Part of the Multiple Baselines series.
A Real Typographic Spring
Launching the Multiple Baselines interview series
Multiple Baselines : a series of interviews with people who play a role in the development of technology and design for the Arabic script.
Kufin: visually interpreting the modularity of language
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…
The Arabic script can be minimalist and contemporary
Interview with Lara Assouad Khoury, independent designer
Part of the Multiple Baselines series . Lara Assouad Khoury is one of the young generation of Arab graphic and type designers.…
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…
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…
An inventor can also respect tradition
Interview with Stéphane Boeuf, Senior Engineer at WinSoft International
Part of the Multiple Baselines series