The German graphic design duo Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma, founders of eps51 graphic design studio, been working very hard on compiling a solid showcase of the Graphic Design from the Arab World as well as Persia (Iran) under a book titled Arabesque: Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia.
The book looks at different fields; Calligraphy, Illustration, Poster Design, Type Manipulation, Type Design, Logos and much more. Within the pages many interviews with different artists featured, like; Mouneer El Shaarani, George Azmy, Nadine Chahine, Wissam Shawkat and more.
Here are few previews of the book, from different sections:
“Calligraphical” section – work featured: Wissam Shawkat & Diana Hawatmeh
“Pictural” section with featured work of George Azmy
Ibrahim Eslam – Zena El-Khalil
“Pictural Type” section – with featured work of Mehdi Saeedi
Shahrazad Changalvaee
“Type Design” section – with featured work by Mohammed Shennawy
Yanone / Underware – Yara Khoury / Himmelbraun
“Logotypes” section featuring a number of different logos by different designers
“Graphical” section – featured work by Peyman Pourhosein
Reem Naeim – Ganzeer – Richard Niessen
The book comes with free CD includes Talib Type
Developed by eps51 – a Latin type derived from Arabic characters
April 23, 2008 at 11:20 am
Hello Omar,
Thanks a lot for sharing these images with us. I’m one of those who admire the Persian Graphic Design. I have a number of Persian Graphic Design books in my library and will get my Arabesque copy from Amazon.
Thanks and good luck in your exams!
April 26, 2008 at 3:19 am
Salam Manar!
I think it’s brilliant, and also the amount of talent exposed from Arabia is very refreshing. Yeah, as you can tell there are book out there about Persian graphic design but unfortunately Arabesque might be the first to acknowledge Arabic graphic design as a whole…
Thanks a lot!
April 28, 2008 at 10:58 am
cooool! i want to buy it also..
Jan Gerner (aka: yanone) is an ex-syntaxer, so talented and motivated. he created Al Abdali when he was staying in Amman.
http://www.yanone.de
May 26, 2008 at 2:09 am
Hello,
Beautiful. I love digital art, would love to see more free Arabic fonts for people out there to spread the influence of Arabic art form. It would also be nice to see more graphic designers on your blog, or links at least.
Salamz,
N.
November 18, 2008 at 2:01 pm
its really great work i love the arabic font
i training to make like this orient graphic
thnx.