Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes
2022
Eric Hu's book features 1,000 unique Chinese character illustrations
2014
"Chinese Emperor Standing in Pavilion", Folio from a Majma al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru
1400
Chilins (Chinese Chimerical Creatures) Fighting with a Dragon
1500
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
1223
3rd Central Star Ferry Pier - Magazine Store
Leaf with Arabic Prayers
1713
Designer Can Yang's book visually presents ancient Chinese elixir recipes
2018
Lyon Arabic is the new counterpart of a Commercial Type favourite, informed by Naskh and Nastaliq scripts
2020
Genre-bending, era-defining graphics in a book of 20th century Chinese design
2012
Manuscript Leaves from an Arabic Manuscript
Flip phones, vintage selfies and kitschy graphic design: Meet 1413 magazine, a “tickle fight” with Chinese culture
2020
The Type covers the history, development, conventions and transcultural contexts of Chinese typography in three new volumes
2020
We dive into a new archive of over 1,000 book covers from the Arab world
2020
This collection of “ghost signs” shows how the Chinese written language has changed over the last century
2021
XXL Studio is an iconic Chinese graphic design studio producing exceptional book design
2018
Samar Maakaroun’s visual identity for The Mosaic Rooms challenges reductive narratives around Arab identities
2026
Arabic and Latin typography don’t have to mimic each other to be harmonious says Montasser Drissi
2019
The View From Cairo: how Helmi Eltouni’s al-Hilal book covers carved a modern Arab aesthetic
2024
Design with Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters explored in new book
2015
“I am trying to show what home looks like for me”: Illustrator Dom Campistron shines a light on queer stories from Basque culture
2021
Lost Magazine explores global travel from a uniquely Chinese perspective
2015
More sharp, strange work from Qiu Yang for T Magazine China
2015
Jaeyou Chung’s rebrand for Beijing’s X Museum features a type inspired by twisted dimensions and chair legs
2022
Dancing In Utopia captures the trance-like communion of public square dancing in China
2025
Designed to mirror a physical experience, Oriental Silk documents the first Chinese silk importing business in the US
2021
Illustrator Anne Simon's new comic book is a sinister ode to a Chinese Empress
2014
Hussein Alazaat on children’s books from the 60s-90s and why they demonstrate the “highest peak of Arabic book-making history”
2022
“The key is irregularity”: This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers
2024
The Shanghai Art Book Fair 2019 welcomed the creative industry’s big-wigs this weekend
2019
Xiaopeng Yuan reinterprets the Chinese fable, The Butterfly Lovers, in a series for Télévision magazine
2019