Thai-Latin type-pairing, Thai Looped, and Loopless can all be paired with Serif and Sans in Latin because Thai type pairing is very flexible. Thai Looped and Loopless can be used interchangeably with both dans and Serif. This presentation will review Thai type pairing analysis’ from the past to the present based on the history and… Continue reading Thai Type-Pairing
Hiragana is a Japanese origin syllabary derived from Chinese character (Kanji). In this session, we would like to show you the flow of changes to current letter form from original Kanji which each of those was originated, and demonstrate the flow of brush stroke when a word is woven with the letters. Please kick back… Continue reading Stream of Kana: Japanese Kana Drawing Performance
Chaim means “life.” Aviva means “spring,” but also “rebirth.” Chaim & Aviva is a multi-script typeface with a great story behind it. Chaim was originally a Hebrew typeface designed around 1929 in Warsaw by Jan Levitt for setting newspapers and other printing in Yiddish. It was considered very modern and avant-garde because it did not… Continue reading Second life of Chaim
Throughout time, type design methods have changed in response to the limitations of various print technologies. In today’s world where digital technologies dominate people’s lives and audiences are more inclined to read on digital devices, every language is trying to publish its information both online and in mobile applications. In accordance with these new needs… Continue reading A Comparative Study of Tahoma and Segoe UI Arabic and the Structural Principles of Arabic Script
Kedai-Kedai Merdeka is a typeface that considers how the Latin alphabet can be inflected by the aesthetics of non-Latin alphabets. It is an experimental variant of our prior typeface Kedai-Kedai, which is influenced by condensed Sans-Serifs from existing multilingual and vernacular signage of Malaysian shophouses, also called kedai-kedai in Malay. Such shophouse signage prevailed between… Continue reading Kedai-Kedai Merdeka: Creolizing Typography
The Chinese script is famed for its vast number of glyphs and complex ‘squarish’ constructs. But what will happen if we stack all the Chinese characters on top of one another? Will we simply get a big black chunk? In this presentation, we will demonstrate our quirky and experimental attempt to stack Chinese characters on… Continue reading Chinese All Over Chinese
Nüshu, which means “female calligraphy” in Chinese, is a type of chirography that was primarily written by women in modern times. This specific type of chirography had only been handwritten, leaving no trace of prior existence in printed form. Nüshu has very unique shapes in comparison to Chinese. With only 398 characters, it took more… Continue reading Digitized Design for Nüshu Script: Noto Traditional Nushu
From Sharjah to Beirut, design curricula is a challenge in the age of digital revolution within the context of Globalization. It’s vital to analyze this practice and device means to integrate Arabic concepts, content, and compositions through design projects. Design students obtain the basics to become typography designers through practice. The Kufic Script is recognized… Continue reading Kufic Script: from Calligraphy to Typography
This presentation narrates the story of the creation of a modern typeface, Adinatha Tamil Brahmi, for the historic Tamil-Brahmi script and the wide-spread impact it had on the community in terms of script revival. Tamil-Brahmi is a regional adaptation of the historical Brahmi script that was used to write the Old Tamil language between 300… Continue reading Contemporizing a Historic Script: The Development of Adinatha Tamil Brahmi Typeface and its Community Impact
Hieroglyphs are evolved from pictorial characters, which are the crystallization of Chinese wisdom. It is also an inheritance of our ancestors’ original way of tracing objects and recording. It is currently the oldest language in the world. Hieroglyphs refer to purely using graphics as characters. Use the lines and strokes of the characters to outline… Continue reading The writing and interpretation of Chinese pictograph