Arabic Calligraphy and Typographic in Art and Design

Course Brief Description:

This unique course welcomes artists, art critics, art theorists, typographers, Arabic calligraphers, designers and sculptors into a non-academic introspective journey of the creative process, as it manifests itself in various domains of creative art and design. Throughout this special course, over the course of five days, participants will acquire rich knowledge from rich and complex experience rather relying only on traditional classroom techniques. The participants will be armed with a strong set of original ideas; the journey will take a fresh look at a number of both established practices as well as previously untapped topics. As a masterclass, it shall examine a variety of dualities: art and design, heritage and modern age, sketch and finished artwork, calligraphy and type design and many others. Participants will explore all of these topics with interactive practices to enhance their learning experience over five days.
As a professional course, the participants will experience different innovative models and arts such as bilingual models, creative designs, inherited arts, modern art, drawings and high professional art works, typographical fonts and lines and others that will enhance their artistic taste and outcome as well as enabling them professionally. 

Learning Objectives:

• Participating in an intellectual exercise questioning set beliefs regarding art and the artist.
• Getting a closer look at the design process and its intricate practices.
• Obtaining a better comprehension of Arabic calligraphy and its position within general artistic practices.
• Being exposed to a historical overview of the development of Arabic typography.
• Discussing and working on practical applications for type design.

Learning Outcomes:

• To arouse interest in issues pertaining to art, and probing participants to practice introspective reflections in that regard.
• To improve the participants' creative tools and analytical skills.
• To explore methods cultivated to liberate their respective scripts from strict traditional directives.
• To enumerate several issues characterizing the contemporary scene in Arabic typography.
• To build a comprehensive type-only visual identity.
• To create a display font and to create practical applications, such as a poster or a book cover, using Arabic typography.