Pascal Zoghbi / LebanonPascal Zoghbi, Designer and Typographer, is the founder of 29letters, an Arabic Type Design and Typography firm in Beirut. His design work ranges from creating new Arabic fonts, corporate identities and print publications. Since 2006, after his graduation from the Type & Media course at The Royal Academy of Arts in Holland with a Master of Design, Pascal was involved in an impressive collection of new Arabic type design projects. He has created contemporary Arabic fonts for leading Middle Eastern Newspapers (Emarat Al Youm, AlWatan & Al Rouiah), urban places (Ibn Battuta Mall, Madinat Jumeirah, Abu Dhabi Airport Terminal 3), art events & magazines (ContempArabia & Alef Magazine) and several other companies. He developed corporate identities for Oryx Magazine, Middle East International Film Festival MEIFF, Viceroy Hotel Group, Jabria Industrial, Rashid Family, Desert Adventures, ContempArabia, Foo Solutions, Focus Art Gallery and several others. He has been teaching typography course at Lebanese American University LAU since 2008 and Notre Dame University NDU since 2006. He frequently gives lectures and workshops about Arabic type and typography and he runs a blog about Arabic type and typography.
Click here to watch some of his works.
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Ali Seylan / TurkeyBorn in Tokat, Turkey. Designer & Educator. PHD education completed in 2004 at 19 Mayis University. Design and advertising company established in 2005. Appointed as Assistant Professor to the same university, Samsun. Lectures of graphic design, advertising graphic, advertising analysis at graduate and post graduatel evel. Published articles, papers and a book entitled “Basic Design”. He held two solo exhibitions and attended many national and international exhibitions; also won many awards include national and international exhibition. Click here to watch some of his posters.
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Ali Reza Mo’ezzi / Iran Ali Reza Mo’ezzi was born in Tehran, and was graduated in communication sciences, journalism.
He began his career in journalism from 1994 and has mainly worked on cultural and artistic issues. His career spans several positions including:
Culture researcher at political affairs deputy of Islamic Republic of Iran's Broadcasting (IRIB) organization (1995); the News Headquarters Director of former Kerman International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults; editorial board member of Nayestan journal (1996); Chief Editor of Sima quarterly on Iranian TV (1998); Cinema Editor of Abraar newspaper (1999); Chief Editor of Soroush weekly magazine affiliated to IRIB (1999-2003); Culture and Art Editor of Jam-e Jam newspaper (2003-2005); Executive Producer of Hamshahri Mahaleh weekly [covering the issues related to Tehran districts] (2006); Director of Hamshahri International newspaper (2006-2008); Chief Editor of Hamshahri UAE and Hamshahri Kuwait published for Iranians residing in the two countries (2006-2008). He is currently the Editorial Director of reputable Khabr newspaper and Khabar Online which is the most visited Iranian news website.
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Mohammad Khazaei / IranMohammad Khazaei was born in 1962; He has a PhD in Graphic Design (Islamic Art and Design) from Birmingham University, UK, 1997. Dr. Khazaei is associate professor and as a member of the academic board of Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran since 1998. He also is the editor-in-chief of the specialized monthly journal of “Book of the Month in Art” since in 2005. Top designer of the Graphic Designers in Tehran Biannual, 1988. Dr. Khazaei is also a winner of a scholarship (Pares) from the Third Graphic Biannual, 1991. Other achievements of Dr. Khazaei are the following: Commendation letter from the 2nd International Islamic Poster Biannual, 2006 and the 9th Contemporary Iranian Graphic Biannual for sign and logo designs, 2007. Khazaei has published many books among them are: The Elixir of Design, 1988. A Thousand Designs, 1992 (2nd edition in 2002); Early Islamic Persian Art (in English), London 1999; The Arts of Islam, A Collection of Essays, 2003. He has submitted many papers in international conferences such as the International Islamic Art Conference in HOFSTRA, New York, 1996; and also the Seminar on The Art Majors in the universities of UK, 1996-97; also he has participated in over 25 lectures in national and international conferences. The publication of two ISI articles, over 12 scientific-research essays, and also 42 articles in scientific-promotional periodicals can be seen in Dr. Khazaie’s resume. Khazaei also participated in many art events as the leading judge and many other cultural and artistic events.Click here to watch some of his posters.
