arab typography/art
Feb. 12th, 2019 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felinejumperYou know how recipes do that thing with an extended personal meditation followed by the actual content? That's me. So. I'm home! I have not been home in so long and I am sorting out my very overlogged digital comms, and I'm not complaining because I love all of them but I do hope someday to get my (delightful, beloved, extremely lowkey) DW inbox back to, idk, below ten, maybe?!? But anyway I'm back and living my life and I bought Michael Jackson's Thriller on vinyl for two dollars like a prig, and it's snowing, which frankly I do not appreciate after a month in warmer climes.
Anyway, there's also these Arab typography/art-projects which I love.
Egypt-based graphic designer Mahmoud Tammam has used his fascination for word manipulations to personally challenge himself in the collection ‘Arabic Letters’. He’s taken 40 English words and translated them into Arabic–representing them as minimal graphics inspired by the meaning of each word. (Arabic letters 1, Arabic letters 2)
The Tammam projects reminds me of this project from 2015 (image below or to the right, and bless the internet archive!), about the "engineering performance art" of designing a computer code that was native Arabic.It's both visually lovely, interesting insight into the built-in-english-dominance of computer code, and a delightful link between the art of calligraphy and the art of a clean computer code. Certainly the latter is aided by good syntax highlighting, but I find the form still visually interesting even without that.
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Date: 2019-02-14 11:49 pm (UTC)Isn't it a delight? I remember it once a year or so and am just starry-eyed with appreciation. I also love that you had the proper icon to go with the subject!
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