Ottoman calligraphy and Arabic typography
May 17, 2008
Above: Ottoman calligraphy from a selection at the Library of Congress. Below: contemporary Arabic typography from the Experimental Typography Flickr pool.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Ghubar
• Calligraphy by Mouneer Al-Shaárani
• The Journal of Ottoman Calligraphy
• Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
5 comments or trackbacks
#1 posted by george
May 17th, 2008
here you can take a look at some arabic zoomorph calligraphy pictures
http://ventitre.noblogs.org/post/2007/04/27/calligrafia-zoomorfa
the text is in italian only.
bye
#2 posted by John
May 17th, 2008
Thanks George, those are tremendous examples.
#3 posted by Mostafa
Oct 26th, 2008
Hey… that’s my work up there!!
thanx
:)
#4 posted by ibrahim abu touq
May 28th, 2009
very nice
#5 posted by Tubulu
Nov 1st, 2009
What does the black white typography means???
very urgent!!!!
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