I found this “type experiment” hidden in my folders somewhere, and I thought I would share it with you lot. It was in the phase of me experimenting Arabic words in highly geometric shapes.
I want to get this printed someday, can you read what it says? (Arabic)
Our Mo Fa / Ganzeer is making a comeback, with his beautiful album cover! YA MAMI
غير متوفر في الأسواق
Najla is experimenting with hand-made type, creating two sets of Alphabets to deal with (Arabic & English). Each letter have their way of freaking you out. She’s still at phase 1, and would like to hear your feedback in order to move on to phase two and which one of the letters (freaks) is your favourite from both languages.
“The Freak; under your bed and when the lights are turned off”
Arabic
English
Mo Fa is sharing this work of his with us :)
Diana likes to patternise!
Najla worked on a tiny animation for Ramadan – after fixes and blemishes, we ended up with this one. Najla’s yummy (unconsumed) gatayef and my editing (Omar)! YAY
It says:
رمضان ضمان لكرش اكبر
which means: Ramadan is a guarantee to have a bigger belly
MoFa has finally decided to grace the pages of Daftar Tajreebi! Here is his first contribution to Daftar. Oh, it’s quite nice he’s coming in with a greeting! HELLO MOFA!
Najla Al Bassam is our new contributor, she’s a Visual Communication student at the American University of Sharjah
Type experiments titled ‘Akk (3akk)
I was experimenting with Fedra Arabic font by Peter Bil’ak and Tarek Atrissi. I thought it has an interesting shape to it. Just a random general political message, against a silhouette of mine.
بليز ما تكتر شطة عالصبح
with my good friend Lana :)
such a bad de3ayeh, but it’s just to celebrate daftar tajreebi exceeding
the 100 views – wow in such short time :D
thanks to all the visitors, we’d love to hear your feedback so go ahead and comment!
no i dont! and no apostrophes included!
geometric shapes, primary colours and black background – my little joy in life. All the letters have the exact same width.
inta wahad harami
i love Arabic typography, and I love that song of Rim! (special thanks goes out to Hiba Judeh for reminding me of her music) I had to play with it :D
hope you guys like it!
I’m printing off random words, copying my deserted illustrations, scissors and glue. Then copy them again, and I get old-skool posters that are sort of hand-made. Well at least the layout and illustrations are…
diana did these tajarob in CMYK colour-combination, hence the header you see up there.
