Typographic Night #13 is coming up, on Friday 6 September 2024, from 18:00! Free entrance as always.

In this special edition of Typographic Night, we welcome three designers working with the Perso-Arabic (Persian & Arabic) script and its relatives. The type design field has long been dominated by the Latin alphabet, leading to most tools being standardized for its production. However, there is much to explore in the non-Latin type design world, where the familiar grids and rules no longer apply. Our designers will showcase how they embrace different aspects of the Perso-Arabic scripts in their practice, offering new insights that we might overlook in our daily design landscape. Co-curated with Trang Hà and Paulina Trzeciak, this session will feature:

Bahman Eslami, a designer who specialises in Arabic Type Design and Typography. His interest in typeface design was sparked by the lack of quality Arabic typefaces during his graphic design studies. This led him to create a typeface for his thesis, later recognised by the Association Typographique Internationale as one of the best typefaces of the decade in 2011 and published by Typotheque. He has designed Arabic companions for renowned Latin typefaces, including Fedra, Kohinoor, and the award-winning Harir. In his studio, Bahman Design, he currently focuses on designing custom typefaces.

Rose Nordin, an artist and graphic designer working with expanded notions of publishing, considering the book as a portal, letterforms as talismans and publishing as ritual knowledge production. Through publication and type design, flag making, installation and metalwork, Rose is interested in printed and material language for governance and devotion. Rose is currently based in London and is peer artist at Metroland Studios.

Omid Nemalhabib, a graphic designer with a focus on multilingual typography, visual concepts, and identity design. He is the co-founder of Studio Melli, an independent graphic design practice based in Iran and the Netherlands. He aims to discover the deep connection between visual culture, graphic design, and type design by incorporating personal narrative and a contemporary approach to experimenting with letterforms. His goal is to develop meaningful and flexible typographic systems by studying the interaction between analog techniques, tools, and digital technology.

We kindly thank Pictoright Fonds for supporting this programme!

Photo by Steven Maybury