Type designing retail & bespoke multi-script fonts that cater to the global community. Expert in Arabic and Latin typography. Based in Madrid, Spain and collaborating with professionals internationality.
I took part in the Arabic Calligraphy and Lettering workshop that was offered by the renowned Syrian Calligrapher Mouneer Al Shaarani at Art on 56th Gallery in Gemmayzeh, Beirut.
Inspired from his Kufic artistic art pieces, I aspired to draw a sentence and challenge myself to make it work as an art piece.
I decided to work on the sentence «أهلاً وسهلاً في بيت الزغبي» translated as “Welcome to the house of Al Zoghbi” in the Archaic Kufic style. I wanted the piece to be elongated to sit neatly beside the entrance door of my family’s place.
After several sketches and trials, the art piece was digitised and finalised.
Below Are some images from the workshop in Art at 56th Space:
I also had the opportunity to have Mounir sign his poster that i have from the “Right to Left” posters collection.
Pascal Zoghbi, the founder of 29Letters (29LT) in 2006, is a type designer, graphic designer, and educator. A graduate from The Royal Academy of Arts, the Netherlands with a Master of Design in Type & Media in 2005, Pascal has created an outstanding collection of contemporary Arabic and multilingual typefaces while working on corporate and cultural design projects. He has taught at various Design Schools in Lebanon (American University of Beirut, Lebanese American University, and Notre Dame University) and UAE (American University of Sharjah) between 2007 and 2017. He co-authored and edited the “Arabic Graffiti” book published in 2010. He was one of the finalists for the “Jameel Prize 3”. He has been awarded by type design competitions such as TDC (Type Directors Club) and Granshan. He is based in Madrid, Spain since 2018.
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