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Ali Al Jabri Exhibition Design →

The Ali Jabri Foundation, was an exhibition design opportunity for the late Jordanian artist Ali Jabri. The permanent gallery was opened in 2010.

The exhibit has since been dismantled.

Manual of Decolonization →

At Salottobuono:

Conceived within the frame of “Decolonizing Architecture: scenarios for the transformation of Israeli settlements”, a project by the London–Bethlehem based architectural studio of Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman. Decolonizing Architecture was originally conceptualized and its pilot stage produced in dialogue with Eloisa Haudenschild & Steve Fagin partners in Spare Parts, a division of the haudenschildGarage.
With Barbara Modolo, Manuel Singer, Alessandro Zorzetto.

Salottobuono designed several ‘strategies of subversion’ for Israeli residential settlements in the West Bank and included them in a
“Manual of Decolonization”: a generic toolbox for post-occupation scenarios.

The manual determines to what extent the evacuated structures are flexible to accommodate new uses, and displays the various ways in which they can be adapted or transformed, on a detailed architectural scale.

Located on the hill of Jabal Tawil, 900 meters above sea level, the colony visually dominates the entire Palestinian area.
Until the occupation it was used as an open space for recreation.
The hills of Jerusalem and Ramallah were popular with families from the Gulf, especially Kuwaitis who travelled there to escape the summer heat (the people of Ramallah still call the hill “the Kuwaiti hill”).
In 1964, the municipality of Al Quds (Jerusalem) bought the land and prepared a plan for its development into a tourist resort. The work started in early 1967 with the construction of an access road. The work was interrupted by the Israeli occupation. In July 1981, on the initiative of the Likud party, the colony of P’sagot was inaugurated as ‘compensation’ to right-wing Israelis for the evacuation of the Sinai Peninsula.
The area designated for tourist accommodation was the first to be occupied by settler housing. The first houses set on the hill of Jabal Tawil were prefabricated structures wheeled over from Yamit, a settlement in the north of the Sinai. P’sagot is at  present a religious settlement inhabited by 1,700 people, mainly American Jews and a minority of recent Russian and French immigrants….continue at Salottobuono

Love your letters, they are your babies! →

Interview with Pascal Zoghbi, independent type designer at khatt.

Pascal Zoghbi is one of the young generation of Arab type designers. He has participated in two of the design research projects of the Khatt Foundation: ‘Typographic Matchmaking’ and ‘Typographic Matchmaking in the City’ respectively. This interview will focus on his Arabic type design—mainly work that was inspired by hand-made lettering, calligraphy and street art.

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  Massira font in 3 variations from top to bottom: Regular, Ballpoint, and Spray. Left wall with posters (designed by Dries Wiewauters & Hester Keijser) using the Massira font for an art exhibition entitled ‘THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG’, at The Empty Quarter gallery in Dubai, in 2010.

Dima Boulad - Motion and Graphic Designer working in and from Beirut →