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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Publication
2022Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes
2022
Project
2016The classical and the crude combine to represent the multiple facets of The Arab City
2016
Project
2025Vic Bakin is documenting Ukrainian youth in Kyiv’s de-occupied territories
2025
Project
2020Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine
2020
Project
2022“Our fight goes on. On battlefields and online” – Kyiv-based design writer Lena Kozar shares her story from inside the war
2022
Project
2014Kieran Kesner's stunning portraits of people and protests in Ukraine
2014
Project
2013Bokja's crafty Arab Spring inspired textiles are oddly compelling
2013
Poster
2016Club culture-inspired posters by Ukrainian graphic designer Anton Synytsia
2016
Motion
2022Arab pop music meets 80s video game aesthetics in Moath Bin Hafez’s pixel art creations
2022
Project
2021The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine
2021
Project
2014Photography: Marco Kesseler documents fear and waiting in Ukraine
2014
Photograph
2023With photographs and testimony from Ukrainian youth, Stuck In Here explores new ways of documenting war
2023
Project
2019Viacheslav Poliakov shoots the “folk-baroque-industrial mess” of Ukraine and Poland
2019
Identity
2022Studio 40Mustaqel challenges the discourse of design in the Arab Swana region
2022
Project
2013Magnificent retelling of Arabian Nights from the brilliant Noa Snir
2013
Publication
2020Lyon Arabic is the new counterpart of a Commercial Type favourite, informed by Naskh and Nastaliq scripts
2020
Project
2018Michal Chelbin's photography is an unusual insight into Ukraine's military boarding schools
2018
Project
2018Ukrainian collective Join The Cool recreate an Eastern European school graduation album
2018
Identity
2026Vintage Arab cassette tapes inspired Sometimes Always’ fiery identity for Fouta Harissa
2026
Project
2020Blending fiction and reality, Julie Poly’s new series presents the colourful characters of the Ukrainian railway
2020
Project
2018Mohamad Abdouni on documenting an “important time in Arab queer culture”
2018
Identity
2026Why minimalist aesthetics (smuggled in as the language of progress) are stifling truly Arab design
2026
Identity
2019Turbo’s identity for the Lesser Amman Library is a masterclass in the potential of Arabic type
2019
Project
2019Photographer David Denil explores Ukraine's mindset after the 2014 revolution
2019
Publication
2020We dive into a new archive of over 1,000 book covers from the Arab world
2020
Project
2022Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design
2022
Publication
2023Nora Krug illustrates the year-long experience of two individuals living through the Russia-Ukraine War
2023
Project
2015Unnerving photographs of a youth military camp from Ukrainian Maxim Dondyuk
2015
Project
2017Alexander Chekmenev’s compelling photographs of elderly citizens in the newly independent Ukraine
2017
Project
2019Photographer Joe Newman documents a boxing gym for young people in a Ukrainian war zone
2019
Motion
2026James Stuart is railing against boring design with techniques inspired by the spirit of Arabic hardcore music
2026
Project
2016Active Arab Women: Lara Al-Hadeedi records the determination of sporting Kuwaiti women
2016
Project
2019Patrick Wassmann photographs the youthful existence in Mukachevo, Ukraine
2019
Publication
2021The Cyrillic fonts of Kyiv Type Foundry are a homage to its favourite city
2021
Publication
2026Samar Maakaroun’s visual identity for The Mosaic Rooms challenges reductive narratives around Arab identities
2026
Project
2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
Publication
2019Arabic and Latin typography don’t have to mimic each other to be harmonious says Montasser Drissi
2019
Project
2012Ukrainian artist Lewel makes unashamedly crazy illustration
2012
Publication
2024The View From Cairo: how Helmi Eltouni’s al-Hilal book covers carved a modern Arab aesthetic
2024
Project
2012Brilliant Lacombe sisters' show Hey'Ya featuring Arab sportswomen opens in London
2012
Project
2019Clifford Jago returns with a bizarre, confusing but altogether joyful trip through Ukraine
2019
Project
2021JJ Lorenzo photographs a generation “marked by the frictions between East and West” in Ukraine
2021
Publication
2021“I am trying to show what home looks like for me”: Illustrator Dom Campistron shines a light on queer stories from Basque culture
2021
Project
2014Chris Nunn immerses himself in the turbulent regions of Ukraine
2014
Project
2021What’s in store for the future of Arabic visual culture? Archief Cairo on communicating across borders
2021
Poster
2021From Rihanna at Barnbrook Studios, to a queer Arab archive: Marwan Kaabour’s graphic design is incredibly bold
2021
Project
2025Kyiv Type Foundry is conserving the architectural heritage of Ukraine by pulling typefaces out from underground
2025
Project
2016Drifting SUVs in the Arabian desert: Peter Garritano explores the world of hajwalah
2016
Project
2024This charity photo project gave Ukrainian children disposable cameras to capture life through their eyes
2024
Project
2019Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap
2019
Project
2022Yelena Yemchuk’s photo series Odesa documents a Ukrainian city undergoing momentous change
2022
Publication
2022Hussein Alazaat on children’s books from the 60s-90s and why they demonstrate the “highest peak of Arabic book-making history”
2022
Publication
2024“The key is irregularity”: This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers
2024
Project
2021Preserving Syrian design history and graphics in the Arab world: Meet the Syrian Design Archive
2021
Identity
2024Monga’s identity for Ukrainian production company Control Freak is warm, retro and tactile
2024
Project
2018Chantal Jahchan explores the Arabic type design landscape and concepts of modernity in En Route
2018
Project
2022It’s Nice That’s print sale for Ukraine includes artworks by Jean Jullien, Anthony Burrill, Kelly Anna and lots more
2022
Identity
2021Graphic designer Lana Soufeh goes back to her roots in a creative exploration of Arabic type-led design
2021