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Publication
2018NB Studio push the decorative limits of typography for African food start-up Jambo!
2018
Project
2016The classical and the crude combine to represent the multiple facets of The Arab City
2016
Project
2021Spinning Yarns: how African textiles tell personal and universal tales
2021
Publication
2022Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes
2022
Identity
2020Ojo Agi explores ideas of home, identity and transnational kinship pertaining to the African diaspora post-1960
2020
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
Motion
2017African surf brand releases film about their namesake water spirit Mami Wata
2017
Project
2013Bokja's crafty Arab Spring inspired textiles are oddly compelling
2013
Project
2015Namsa Leuba's Khoisan explores an ancient African tribe
2015
Project
2014Kieran Kesner's stunning portraits of people and protests in Ukraine
2014
Motion
2022Arab pop music meets 80s video game aesthetics in Moath Bin Hafez’s pixel art creations
2022
Project
2019Photographer Kyle Weeks captures a new narrative of hope and creativity for Africa's youth
2019
Poster
2016Club culture-inspired posters by Ukrainian graphic designer Anton Synytsia
2016
Garment
2013Fashion: Photographer Koen Hauser pays tribute to Africa's textile design
2013
Photograph
2002Parkview Square from Arab Street
2002
Project
2009George Butler in Africa
2009
Project
2013African studio portraits of the 1960s courtesy of Bobson Photography Studio
2013
Project
2019Viacheslav Poliakov shoots the “folk-baroque-industrial mess” of Ukraine and Poland
2019
Project
2021The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine
2021
Photograph
2023With photographs and testimony from Ukrainian youth, Stuck In Here explores new ways of documenting war
2023
Project
2014Photography: Marco Kesseler documents fear and waiting in Ukraine
2014
Object
1850Horn
1850
Object
1800Prayer book with case (mahdar)
1800
Object
1875Zanze
1875
Photograph
1955Gala Dinner for the Asian-African Conference in Savoy Homann Hotel, Bandung, on April 19th 1955
1955
Photograph
Point Douglas Ukrainian Labour Temple - 2024 - 3
Photograph
Point Douglas Ukrainian Labour Temple - 2024 - 2
Photograph
Point Douglas Ukrainian Labour Temple - 2024 - 1
Photograph
Point Douglas Ukrainian Labour Temple - 2024 - 4
Object
1701Sword (Saif) with Scabbard
1701
Photograph
Харків, пр.Московський,197 -2
Photograph
32 Tarnavskoho Street, Lviv (01)
Photograph
7 Enerhetychna Street, Lviv (01)
Photograph
3 Karmeliuka Street, Lviv (02)
Photograph
2-4 Kooperatyvna Street, Lviv (02)
Photograph
Stara Sol Kosciol 02
Photograph
4 Hrytsaia Street, Lviv (02)
Photograph
16 Kniazha Street, Lviv (08)
Photograph
32 Tarnavskoho Street, Lviv (02)
Photograph
8a Kharkivska Street, Lviv (03)
Photograph
De Waterkant 47
Photograph
Port Elizabeth Library, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa (19889607574)
Photograph
Manhattan Court (395169273)
Photograph
Jubilee Gardens (395152579)
Photograph
Cine Africa (391901922)
Photograph
Augustines Corner (395152574)
Photograph
Durban - Victoria Mansions 124 Victoria Embankment - S29.51.757 E31.01.303 - SAHRA ID - New
Photograph
Broadwindsor (395169268)
Photograph
Metropole Hotel (395169276)
Photograph
Broadwindsor Birds (395152577)
Photograph
Mullers Optometrist - Longmarket Street
Photograph
At Cape Town (MP) 2018 032
Photograph
1934Port Elizabeth CBD postcard
1934
Photograph
Victoria Court (395152584)
Photograph
At Cape Town (MP) 2018 031
Photograph
Wilern Court (395152583)
Photograph
Joko Widodo speaks to Asian–African delegates at the 2015 Asian–African Summit in Bandung
Photograph
Merdeka Building during the 2015 Asian–African Summit (01)
Photograph
Family Photo of the 2015 Asian–African Summit in Bandung
Photograph
Merdeka Building during the 2015 Asian–African Summit (02)
Furniture
1928African Woman
1928
Furniture
1928African Woman
1928
Photograph
4 Osmomysla Street, Drohobych (1)
Photograph
Chernivtsi BioChem College Vul. Ukrainky 25
Photograph
Чернівці DSC 8885 Штейнбарга Елієзера, 8
Photograph
Склеп на Байковом кладбище
Photograph
21-101-0133 Uzhgorod DSC 2005
Photograph
Палац Гогенлое DSC 9130 Кобилянської Ольги, 22
Photograph
Будинок театру (Чернівці) DSC 8867 пл.Театральна, 1
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297764046)
Photograph
Cape Town (252929665)
Photograph
Cape Town (354264264)
Photograph
Cape Town (354265537)
Photograph
Cape Town (252929093)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297764762)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297764622)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297764339)
Photograph
Cape Town (354266530)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297765097)
Photograph
Cape Town (354266774)
Photograph
Cape Town (354265085)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297764171)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297763953)
Photograph
Cape Town (354265930)
Photograph
Cape Town (354266244)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297765226)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297764891)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297765557)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297763602)
Photograph
Cape Town (252929262)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297764495)
Photograph
Cape Town (354264629)
Sculpture
Art Deco Sculpture (297763763)
Photograph
Cape Town (354244029)
Photograph
Old Arab Bank building Amman
Photograph
Bangui city
Photograph
The Bangui City 2
Photograph
The Bangui City
Drawing
1795Tombs of Great Arab Saints to be seen in the Neighborhood of Rosetta, Egypt
1795
Ceramic
975Bowl with Arabic Proverb
975
Ceramic
975Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"
975
Furniture
1871High-back chair (pair with 1975.1.1999)
1871
Furniture
1871High-back chair (pair with 1975.1.1998)
1871
Painting
Ship by Moonlight
Object
1837A Ship in a Stormy Sea
1837
Object
1875Rebab
1875
Object
1875Guenbri
1875
Object
1875Guenbri
1875
Object
1875Gumuri
1875
Object
1701Spear
1701
Object
1850Nay
1850
Object
1501Sword with Scabbard
1501
Object
-900Cylinder seal with chariot hunting scene and Old South Arabian inscription
-900
Ceramic
1100Jar with Carved Benedictory Arabic Inscription in Thuluth Script
1100
Publication
1223"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
1223
Ceramic
900Bowl with Arabic Inscription
900
Object
900Part of Lamp or Incense Burner Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
900
Publication
1713Leaf with Arabic Prayers
1713
Object
1400Bracelet with Snake-Head Endings and Arabic Inscription, One of a Pair
1400
Object
1400Bracelet with Snake-Head Endings and Arabic Inscription, One of a Pair
1400
Ceramic
1000Dish with Carved Arabic Inscription in Floriated Kufic Reading "al-'izz" ("Glory")
1000
Ceramic
900Ewer with Repeated Arabic Phrase, "Blessing"
900
Object
1000Long-Handled Spoon Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
1000
Object
1600Finial with Arabic Inscription"Ya, Da'im" ("Oh, Everlasting!")
1600
Ceramic
900Ewer with Arabic Proverb, "Devotion Fortifies Action"
900
Object
1100Rice Server Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
1100
Object
1200Candlestick with Horsemen and Arabic Inscriptions Conveying Good Wishes and Blessings Upon the Sultan
1200
Ceramic
1150Ewer with Horsemen Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes to its Owner
1150
Typeface
Canela Arabic
Typeface
Lyon Arabic
Typeface
Graphik Arabic
Type in Use
McDonald’s – “100% Sviy” Ukrainian Weeks campaign
Photograph
2022Wikimarathon 2022 online meeting for participants of ureport Ukraine by Rina.sl
2022
Identity
2009Arab Open University (logo)
2009
Poster
2015Poster for Ukrainian-language film shot in Canada, "From My Heart" (16760142269)
2015
Identity
2021Logo of Ukrainian Week
2021
Identity
2021Logo-ip-Kiev
2021
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
Project
2023Hanson Akatti designs a colourful, visual world for the West African music scene
2023
Project
2017The photographer archiving South Africa’s black lesbian community
2017
Project
2025Karabo Mooki celebrates South Africa’s first Black show jumper
2025
Publication
2020Lyon Arabic is the new counterpart of a Commercial Type favourite, informed by Naskh and Nastaliq scripts
2020
Project
2018"You have to hear this": Brian Shimkovitz tells us the story of Awesome Tapes From Africa
2018
Project
2012David Chancellor's Hunters offers an unsettling look at African blood sports
2012
Poster
2018Woman and Man in 1930s Soviet Propaganda Poster - Regional History Museum - Zaporozhye - Ukraine (42302404620)
2018
Garment
2011Vivienne Westwood: Ethical Fashion Africa
2011
Project
2018Michal Chelbin's photography is an unusual insight into Ukraine's military boarding schools
2018
Publication
2018Nice Magazine nurtures and honestly represents young talent from the African continent
2018
Project
2018Ukrainian collective Join The Cool recreate an Eastern European school graduation album
2018
Poster
2020The New Year Will Bring Us Victory, Molva (Odessa), Jan 1, 1943
2020
Identity
2015Dynamo-Kyiv logo (1989-1996)
2015
Poster
2024Rina.sl presenting the poster «Wiki loves monuments in Ukraine special cetegories» at Wikimania 2024 03
2024
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
2015Up close with the young acrobats of Namsa Leuba’s West African roots
2015
Motion
2017Meet the filmmaker bringing intersectional feminism to South Africa: Jabu Nadia Newman
2017
Poster
1963No arms for South Africa — British anti-apartheid poster
1963
Project
2018Mohamad Abdouni on documenting an “important time in Arab queer culture”
2018
Map
1953Northwest Africa. Northeast Africa.
1953
Project
2011Awesome Tapes from Africa
2011
Poster
2012Odessa exposition poster
2012
Publication
Manuscript Leaves from an Arabic Manuscript
Map
1953Central and South Africa. Madagascar.
1953
Motion
2018Artist Olivié Keck explores South African youth culture through a vibrant VR video
2018
Project
2020Manju Journal on what it means to be part of the African aesthetic today
2020
Identity
2026Why minimalist aesthetics (smuggled in as the language of progress) are stifling truly Arab design
2026
Typeface
2015Thomas Milo Showing How to Render an Arabic Typeface Digitized
2015
Poster
2025Wiki loves Africa in the Hausa Community online training session
2025
Poster
2017Odessa–Istanbul (Travel poster)
2017
Poster
2019Wikimarathon Ukraine 2019 meetups poster web
2019
Map
1953Central and West Africa. South and East Africa.
1953
Project
2022Jada Akoto’s design practice explores the intersection of pop culture and the African diaspora
2022
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
Poster
1899England and the war in South Africa — German poster
1899
Project
2015Unnerving photographs of a youth military camp from Ukrainian Maxim Dondyuk
2015
Project
2020How Karabo Poppy Moletsane is permeating the real African aesthetic worldwide
2020
Poster
2021На освобождение Бессарабии, Soviet of Working Deputies of Odessa poster, 1919
2021
Project
2017Football Editions finds inspiration in the legends of African football
2017
Typeface
2019Movement is the typeface based on the body of a South African dancer
2019
Project
2017Alexander Chekmenev’s compelling photographs of elderly citizens in the newly independent Ukraine
2017
Publication
2021Afrosurf, a book founded by Selema Masekela, tells the untold stories of surfing culture in Africa
2021
Project
2014Dillon Marsh visualises how much copper was produced in South African mines
2014
Project
2019Photographer Joe Newman documents a boxing gym for young people in a Ukrainian war zone
2019
Project
2012OK-RM absolutely nail Kaleidoscope's new contemporary Africa art issue
2012
Project
2013South African photographer Johno Mellish creates incredible images
2013
Poster
2020The African Queen (1952 US poster)
2020
Identity
2010South Africa World Cup Logo
2010
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
2017Alice Mann photographs African men from London's La Sape
2017
Publication
2019For its third issue Nice Magazine pays tribute to the South African township of Katlehong
2019
Project
2019Patrick Wassmann photographs the youthful existence in Mukachevo, Ukraine
2019
Motion
2017Pablo Di Prima and Ruth Ossai's film Ogbomgbom is an ode to West African "Kings"
2017
Publication
2021The Cyrillic fonts of Kyiv Type Foundry are a homage to its favourite city
2021
Poster
2015Imperial Airways Poster Africa (19482265491)
2015
Map
1595Western Africa. Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo & Angole ....
1595
Poster
2024WLM in Ukraine poster session Wikimania 2024
2024
Motion
2014Film: Guinness film follows inspiring group of African dandies, The Sapeurs
2014
Poster
2017Odessa (Travel poster)
2017
Identity
2021Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK logo
2021
Poster
1963By the union of Arabs — Algerian poster
1963
Poster
South Africa 1974 Dec. - Alfred Eisenstaedt
Poster
1971British Arms will make a great contribution to South Africa's way of life — British anti-apartheid poster
1971
Project
2010The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
2010
Project
2022Using only African designers, Gida is a creative journal dedicated to being “by and for Africans”
2022
Identity
2019Challenging stereotypes, Lee-Ann Olwage turns her lens to gender and identity in South Africa
2019
Poster
1965Drive old and new colonialists out of Africa! — Chinese poster
1965
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
Painting
1898Album: Arab
1898
Project
2016Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s collaged images offer new perspective on the “African experience”
2016
Map
1258Araberreich und Nachbargebiete: Bevölkerung. (Arab empire and neighboring areas: population).
1258
Publication
2019Arabic and Latin typography don’t have to mimic each other to be harmonious says Montasser Drissi
2019
Project
2015Cool South African school kids photographed by Anastasia Korosteleva
2015
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
Identity
2015Logo of State Agency of reserve of Ukraine
2015
Identity
2018Logo BBC Arabic
2018
Project
2024Karabo Mooki documents South Africa’s punk rock movement, debunking stereotypes of the genre
2024
Poster
2019Wikimedia Ukraine Organizational Poster at Wikimania 2019
2019
Project
2013Opinion: Away from Design Indaba, South Africa's graphics tell a tense story
2013
Project
2024Iconic jerseys and grassroots spirit: Victor Edeh captures football fever during the Africa Cup of Nations
2024
Poster
2015Flag of the State Agency of Reserve of Ukraine
2015
Project
2012Introducing...The ultra-bold African supergraphics of illustrator Lynnie Zulu
2012
Project
2019Through portraiture, photographer Justin Keene sets up a dialogue with South Africa
2019
Poster
1760Teapot with Allegorical Scenes of "Africa" and "America"
1760
Poster
2024Rina.sl presenting the poster «Wiki loves monuments in Ukraine special cetegories» at Wikimania 2024 01
2024
Project
2022Marie Gomis-Trezise explains how Nataal grew to become the premier platform for African creative talent
2022
Project
2022“Skateboarding feels a lot like therapy”: Karabo Mooki shares stories of South Africa’s all-female skate group, Island Gals
2022
Project
2019The Hayward shines a light on South Africa’s born-free generation
2019
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