Name: Kufi skriftens comeback - Om typografi, kufi og kalligrafi
Start: 2024-10-23T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Kronprinsessegade 30, 1306 Copenhagen, Denmark

Kufi skriftens comeback - Om typografi, kufi og kalligrafi

In English below
Kom med når den libanesiskfødte dr. Nadine Chahine fortæller om den tidlige kufi-skrift og hvordan et arabisk manuskript fra det 9. århundrede har inspireret et helt typografisk projekt.
Kufisk skrift er en variant af arabisk skrift, der udvikledes over flere århundredes brug i arabiske manuskripter. Nadine Chahine vil præsentere et typografiske designprojekt inspireret af tidlig kufi. Hør mere om selve designprocessen, og kompleksiteten i udviklingen af typografien.
Dr. Nadine Chahine er en prisvindende designer, der blandt andet står bag følgende fonts: Frutiger Arabic, Neue Helvetica Arabic, Univers Next Arabic, Palatino Arabic og Koufiya.
Hendes kunder inkluderer: Google, Sony, The Executive Councel of Dubai, Aljazeera, An-Nahar Newspaper, Etihad Airways, H&M, mbc, SKY News Arabia og Toyota. Hun har senest arbejdet med projekter for ArabicType Ltd og med mbc Shahid, Intel, Bulgari og Bloomberg Asharq.
Foredraget er på engelsk.
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Join us for an evening with Dr. Nadine Chahine as she will introduce us to early Kufi writing and how a 9th century Arabic manuscript has led to a whole design process and a new type design.
The first three centuries of Arabic manuscripts witnessed the evolution of script styles loosely referred to as the Early Kufi. Nadine Chahine will present a type design project inspired by the script Kufi - exploring the process and getting acquainted with its complexities and particularities.
The typeface was commissioned as part of the research on the writing system of early Qur'anic manuscripts conducted by Hamburg University’s Alba Fedeli for the InterSaME project.
Dr. Nadine Chahine is an award-winning Lebanese type designer and has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK; a PhD in legibility research from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Master of Studies in International Relations from Cambridge University. She has designed the fonts: Frutiger Arabic, Neue Helvetica Arabic, Univers Next Arabic, Palatino Arabic og Koufiya.
Her clients include: Google, Sony, The Executive Councel of Dubai, Aljazeera, An-Nahar Newspaper, Etihad Airways, H&M, mbc, SKY News Arabia og Toyota. Her latest projects were for ArabicType Ltd and mbc Shahid, Intel, Bulgari as well as Bloomberg Asharq.