Substrate

A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

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Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes

Arab pop music meets 80s video game aesthetics in Moath Bin Hafez’s pixel art creations

The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine

Poster project of the Second Lithuanian Art Exhibition with a bell and Lithuanian Vytis, painted by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis in 1908

Regatta in Tallinn - 1980 Summer Olympics memorabilia - posters

Studio 40Mustaqel challenges the discourse of design in the Arab Swana region

Lyon Arabic is the new counterpart of a Commercial Type favourite, informed by Naskh and Nastaliq scripts

Vintage Arab cassette tapes inspired Sometimes Always’ fiery identity for Fouta Harissa

A poster dedicated to the governor of the Klaipėda region Jonas Budrys, Lithuania

The 6th Congress of the Lithuanian Communist Youth (Vilnius, 1951)

Riga-based illustrator Roberts Rurans on the evolution of his lively style

Why minimalist aesthetics (smuggled in as the language of progress) are stifling truly Arab design

Malou Messien on her obsession with display type, secondhand book covers and Estonian design

Indulge in the dreamy world of a chocolate factory in the Lithuanian woodlands

Poster 'Pirmoji labdaringoji lietuvių loterija' (The First Lithuanian Charity Lottery) by Vytautas Bičiūnas (1918)

We dive into a new archive of over 1,000 book covers from the Arab world

Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design

James Stuart is railing against boring design with techniques inspired by the spirit of Arabic hardcore music

Soldiers of the Lithuanian People's Army holding the Soviet propaganda posters in 1940

Matchbox label - Hand Pointing at Flame - Lithuania (circa 1940s) - MBP1406822490

Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK logo

Samar Maakaroun’s visual identity for The Mosaic Rooms challenges reductive narratives around Arab identities

The View From Cairo: how Helmi Eltouni’s al-Hilal book covers carved a modern Arab aesthetic

Anti-Russian Empire poster in the Lithuanian language, urging to defend the Catholic faith, 1862

On the Estonian islands of Kihnu and Manija, Anne Helene Gjelstad beautifully photographs its older women

Poster "Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia". 1934

Mozaika explores a spectacular archive of Lithuanian children’s book illustration, and its cultural significance

Poster Jubiläums-Ausstellung Riga 1901

Matchbox label - Water Polo - Lithuania (circa 1940s) - MBP1488411505

“I am trying to show what home looks like for me”: Illustrator Dom Campistron shines a light on queer stories from Basque culture

Matchbox label - Theatrical Masks - Lithuania (circa 1940s) - MBP1612867094

What’s in store for the future of Arabic visual culture? Archief Cairo on communicating across borders

From Rihanna at Barnbrook Studios, to a queer Arab archive: Marwan Kaabour’s graphic design is incredibly bold

Wikifunctions logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki logo Arabic vertical in black

WWII Arabic Poster Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Wikiversity logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikimedia logo Arabic horizontal in colour

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Wikimedia Foundation logo Arabic horizontal in white

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Wikimedia Meta-Wiki logo Arabic horizontal in colour

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Wikiversity logo Arabic horizontal in black

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Logo-ip-Vilnius

Poster Helmsing & Grimm Riga

Latvia World War II Aircraft Insignia - Newsmap Vol 2 No 22 1943-09-20 US Government National Archives NARA Unrestricted Public domain 26-nm-2-22-overseas 002 (cropped)

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki logo Arabic horizontal in black

Wikifunctions logo Arabic vertical in white

Wikinews logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikimedia Movement logo Arabic vertical in white

Wikimedia logo Arabic horizontal in white

Wikimedia Incubator logo Arabic vertical in colour

MediaWiki logo Arabic vertical in colour

Wikiquote logo Arabic vertical in colour

Wikispecies logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikifunctions logo Arabic horizontal in black

Wikimedia Foundation logo Arabic horizontal in black

MediaWiki logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikibooks logo Arabic horizontal in black

Wikinews logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikimedia Incubator logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wiktionary logo Arabic horizontal in white

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Wikisource logo Arabic horizontal in colour

MediaWiki logo Arabic vertical in black

Wiktionary logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikinews logo Arabic horizontal in black

Wikifunctions logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikibooks logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikibooks logo Arabic horizontal in white

Wikiquote logo Arabic vertical in white

Wikivoyage logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikipedia logo Arabic vertical

Wikispecies logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikidata logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikinews logo Arabic horizontal in white

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