Dabire Collective

During the European Design Conference in Rotterdam, in May of 2011, Reza Abedini, Iranian graphic designer, was asked to redesign Arabic logotype of the Spanish retail brand, Desigual.

Since 1927 the daily [Musalman] newspaper has been published in Urdu language in Chennai, India. What makes this a noteworthy story is that this family owned and operated publication has been handwritten every single day by a tireless team of four katibs.

In 2011, as a corporate design project, Mohammad Reza Abdolali, Tehran based graphic designer, used Persian type as the main idea to develop Royal Trains visual identity.

Elnaz Bagheri, born in 1987, has been experimenting with Square Kufic as part of her senior thesis project in graphic design at Tonekabon Azad University. She says she chose to work with Square Kufic for its structured yet non-limiting nature and she is fascinated by the jigsaw-puzzle-like architecture.

This series based on and inspired by a poem by Wallace Stevens (American poet 1879-1955) is part of Shahrzad Changalvaee B.A. thesis project in 2006.