Sudan Artists Gallery

Artists from Sudan has not been featured previously on Fann 3arabi, although there are amazingly talented Sudani artists yet the resources on the net seemed quite few and not very efficient.

Therefore, Fann 3arabi presents this wonderful website that features a huge number of Sudani artists and has both showcase of each artist as well as their biography. The work is cateogrised under different categories; Illustration, Calligraphy, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture and much more.

Here are some samples of the work featured there:

A Pedestrian Song by Mohamed Abusabib – Ink, 1996

Holy Quraan calligraphy painting by Alawad Mustafa

Untitled by Shamseldeen Adam Bushara – oil

Untitled by Mohamed Omer Bushara – Lazertan etching, 2006 (Click to Enlarge)

Untitled by Fayrouz Omer – Mixed media, 2004

Puzzled by Ahmad Elmardi – Digital, 2002

• Visit Sudan Artists Gallery

Arabesque: Graphic Design from the Arab World & Persia

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

Susan Hefuna – Nja Mahdaoui

“Pictural” section with featured work of George Azmy

Kareem Lotfy – Komraids

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

• Visit Arabesque’s Website
• eps51 graphic design studio website
• Talib Type website
• Book’s page on Die Gestalten (Available for Purchase)
• Purchase book through Amazon or Amazon UK