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
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.
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Thanks George, those are tremendous examples.
Hey… that’s my work up there!!
thanx
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very nice
What does the black white typography means???
very urgent!!!!
thanks a lot for that beauty. may I “borrow” it as an ornament ofthe cover of my book?
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.