Homescreen: Reflections

Nada Abdallah is a designer, artist, researcher, and educator based in the UAE. She teaches design at the Academy of Visual Arts, University of the Arts Sharjah, and serves as President of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). Her practice spans typography, visual identity, exhibition design, and research, with a particular interest in Arabic letterforms, cultural memory, and transforming historical visual systems into contemporary forms. She is also the founder and director of the FiftyFifty International Student Traveling Exhibition and the Bilarabic Design Festival.

Tom Mullaney is a historian, teacher, curator, archivist, and songwriter. Author of How We Disappear and The Chinese Typewriter, among 5 other books, Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Fellow, former Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress, and Director of Stanford’s Science, Technology, and Society Program. He is also the UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures at Stanford, and Director of SILICON, a Stanford Presidential Initiative advancing endangered, at-risk, and digitally disadvantaged languages worldwide.