Talking about Arabic (Dot-Font)

Mourad Boutros, author of Arabic for Designers, enlists his professional peers to examine the global context for Arabic design and typography. The thematic thread that runs through every article, case study and illustration is how technological advances have furthered, and changed, the use of Arabic throughout the world, whether it is printed or found online. Detailed accounts of how advances in font technology have permitted digitized Arabic to accurately represent the Arabic calligraphic tradition provides a discourse for non-Arabic speakers to consider the language's cultural, religious and aesthetic issues in a 21st century context, including teaching Arabic in a global context, the development of contemporary Arabic fonts and multilingual Web design.
For this installment of the dot-font series, Mourad Boutros, author of "Arabic for Designers", enlists his professional peers to examine the global context for Arabic graphic design and typography. Experts explore the fields of calligraphy, font design and marketing through topics like Arabic branding in the global marketplace, religious and secular Arabic aesthetics and the fusion of Arabic and Western design identities. The dot-font series consists of small, inexpensive books that compactly illuminate their respective subject matter. They are written and illustrated to be accessible for the layperson, but contain examples and insight sure to intrigue the most experienced designers.