Pascal Zoghbi
Pascal Zoghbi, Arabic Type Designer and Typographer, is the founder of "29 Letters", an Arabic Type Design and Typography studio in Beirut. The design work ranges from creating new Arabic fonts, corporate identities and print publications. Since 2006, after his graduation from the Type & Media course at The Royal Academy of Arts in The Netherlands with a Master of Design, Pascal was involved in an impressive collection of new Arabic type design projects. He has created contemporary Arabic fonts for leading Middle Eastern Newspapers, urban places, art events & magazines, software and several other companies. Pascal took part of the Typographic Matchmaking 01 and 02 projects organized by The Khatt Foundation. He has been teaching typography and type design courses at graphic design schools in American University of Beirut AUB, Lebanon at Lebanese American University LAU and Notre Dame University NDU and since 2006. He frequently gives lectures and workshops about Arabic type and typography and he runs a blog about Arabic type and typography. He recently co-authored and edited the "Arabic Graffiti" book that is published by "From Here To Fame" in Berlin. He is now nominated for the Jameel Prize 3.
At ATypI 2013 Amsterdam Pascal Zoghbi will be speaking at:
- Archaic counter contemporary arabic letterforms Wed 09 Oct 1400