Substrate

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

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Uniforma’s brand identity for Polish nightclub Schron is utiliarian yet expressive

Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes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

Agnieszka Sejud reflects on fake news in Poland in her frenzied collages

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

W Sylwestra nie strzelam (I don’t fire on New Year’s Eve)

Warszawski Tydzień Kobiet (Warsaw Women's Week)

Cleopatra poster (Polish)

Logo Warsaw Wlochy

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

Polish-soviet propaganda poster 22Y

German Poster Caling For Financing German Schools Located In Poland (1932)

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

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

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

Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface sample using a German pangram and a Polish phrase (2)

Patryk Hardziej explores a modernist approach to corporate design in Communist Poland

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

Wiesbaden Swing typeface sample using a German pangram and a Polish phrase

020220312 Generalgouvernement travel poster, Town Hall Tower, 1940, Kraków

Drukarnia Literacka Kraków logo (1908)

Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK logo

WW2 Uniforms Rank insignia US Poland USSR China France Britain Newsmap Vol 1 No 48 3-22-1943 US Government National Archives NARA Unrestricted Public domain 26-nm-1-48 002 cropped

Polish-soviet propaganda poster 14Y

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

Polish-soviet propaganda poster 1920

Warsaw-based UVMW designs a playful, hand-drawn wayfinding system for a music school in Poland

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

Matchbox label - Protect Houses From Fungus - Poland (circa 1940s) - MBP1613986810

“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 - Tractor Poland Mid-Century - Poland (circa 1940s) - MBP1520443098

Dolus, the Finest Shoe Polish

Voices of mass demonstration in Poland inspire this new folkloric animation

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

Poster General Exhibition of Polish Art in Lemberg (Lviv) 1910

WWII Arabic Poster Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Wikiversity logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikimedia logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikiquote logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikimedia Foundation logo Arabic horizontal in white

Wikivoyage logo Arabic horizontal in white

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Wikimedia Foundation logo Arabic vertical in black

Wikiversity logo Arabic horizontal in black

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki logo Arabic vertical in colour

Wikidata logo Arabic vertical in white

Polish anti-bolshevik poster

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki logo Arabic horizontal in black

Wikifunctions logo Arabic vertical in white

Wikinews logo Arabic horizontal in colour

Logo of Wilanów, Warsaw

Wikimedia Movement logo Arabic vertical in white

Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface sample using a German pangram and a Polish phrase

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

Wikibooks logo Arabic vertical in white

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