"I come from a place where people inherit olive trees from their ancestors & much of life revolves around honoring that inheritance." In the first story of 7 in our new series on Inner migration, Ibrahim Nehme leaves post-explosion Beirut for the village mashallahnews.com/son-of-the-sun/

Danah Adullah's take on the current state of design "We continue to populate the world with junk and have become complicit in designing people into a culture of convenience." designrepository.design/against-perfor…

We are thrilled to finally present our new, massive type specimen: 2,928 fonts 560 pages 431 translations 175 translators 28 colour permutations 11 Pantone colours 27 essays and script introductions 21 writing scripts 1 poem typotheque.com/blog/new_monum…

Arek « a »looks yummy! Thanks Senyor Estudi

lettering for blu 🤍

I had the honor and pleasure to curate an exhibition with the work of some of the best Arab and Iranian designers about engaged Graphic design from the Western Asia and North Africa. Look out for a the publication in 2022! Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms khtt.net/en/page/31356/…

🚨 New article! Towards a Global Definition of Excellence in Type Design by Nadine Chahine 🇱🇧. In Part One of this 2-part series, we tackle this question: There are good typefaces, and there are excellent typefaces; what’s the difference? typegeist.org/article/toward…

I can't believe it!!😲🤩 It's been 5 years since the launch part of our studio Morcos Key on 02/22/2017! THANK YOU to every one who has worked with us, to every collaborator or client who trusted us and to everyone who supported us, or who is just a friend of the studio!

If you were just at our 35 Under 35 session, you know an epic collab between Khajag Apelian and Beatriz (Sunday Afternoon) has been promised....AR + Arabic type project on the way!? 🔥

AYWA! Mithaq won a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the @typedirectorsclub #TDC68. Huge thanks goes out to the jury and specifically to Mamoun Sakkal for choosing it as Judge’s Choice! A custom Arabic typeface for هيئة فنون العمارة والتصميم's King Salman Architecture & Urbanism Charter

We also received a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club #TDC68 for the upcoming Greta Sans Armenian, probably the largest Armenian typeface family ever produced.🏆🏆🏆

Here's a sneak peek at Bernard Khoury's design for the new #TUMOBeirut, coming in 2023, with over 5,000 square meters of creativity and tech, a capacity of 1,500-2,000 students, and 100% free of charge. Stay tuned!

I’m happy to announce ‘Reactions’ my first solo show in Amsterdam at Art 3035 Gallery in collaboration with TPTQ Arabic. I will be showing a collection of my lettering work. Opens on April 29th. Hope to see many of you! art3035gallery.com

#29LT Zarid #superfamily #sans #serif #slab #text #display . #Latin #arabic #multilingual #biscriptual #biscriptualdesign #multiscriptual #fonts #typefaces . Khajag Apelian Retype Foundry Jan Fromm

✍️Help us to collect examples of handwriting from around the world, to learn how people write, and how they interpret handwriting of others. The results of this research will published publicly.✍️ tptq.com/handwriting

New goods in the shop today: A poster for Lyon Arabic designed by Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian, and extra copies of a zine for the Vault that are in the goody bags at this year's Typographics commercialtype.com/goods

Armenian readers please do this. The rest please help us spread it. Thank you!

Campaign is live: Save type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza gofund.me/39ae9000 Please share far and wide and obviously, donate!

"Save type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza" gofundme.com/f/save-type-de…

TO WATCH: The design process of GT America Arabic is now on our YouTube, with our collaborators Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian 📹 youtu.be/dvh7Mg6dRl8