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
7 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!!!!
#6 posted by abdul mun'im
Mar 14th, 2012
thanks a lot for that beauty. may I “borrow” it as an ornament ofthe cover of my book?
#7 posted by John
Mar 16th, 2012
Hi Abdul. I only posted these as examples of work past and present, I don’t own the rights to the designs. If you wanted to use them somewhere you’d have to find the people who owned the artwork and ask them.