Shaqa Bovand is a type designer who works at F37 Foundry. Born and raised in Iran, she grew up surrounded by calligraphy – from traditional wall signs to the use of calligraphy in architecture and the ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

Beautiful fonts are indispensable when designing something such as websites and posters, but handwritten characters have a unique goodness not found in digital, and in recent years it has attracted ...

What comes to mind when you hear the word calligraphy? Probably, the fluid artistic representation of the Arabic alphabets, the oriental delight that is the Chinese script, or English letters in ...

The modern Chinese artist – known for his groundbreaking Square Word Calligraphy concept – teams up with the luxury fashion brand as it celebrates its 25th anniversary Shanghai Tang, the luxury ...

THE IDEA of writing English in a Chinese way may sound weird. But this is the essence of award-winning artist Xu Bing's 'square-word calligraphy'. 'Square words', developed by Xu, look like Chinese ...

Handwriting is an art form. Just like painting, drawing and sketching, this art can be developed by individuals with some effort. From the Greek words that mean “beauty” and “writing” come the good ...