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Khajag Apelian

@debakir

Lettering artist. Type designer. Graphic designer

 Beirut
debakir.com
Joined September 2009
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Grilli Type@grillitype11 Jun 2024
TO WATCH: The design process of GT America Arabic is now on our YouTube, with our collaborators @waelmorcos and @debakir 📹 youtu.be/dvh7Mg6dRl8
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Yanone@yanone22 Feb 2024
Campaign is live: Save type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza gofund.me/39ae9000 Please share far and wide and obviously, donate!
Donate to Evacuate type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza, organized by Jan Gerner

Donate to Evacuate type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza, organized by Jan Gerner

My name is Jan Gerner and I go by the artist name Yanone on the internet. … Jan Gerner needs your support for Evacuate type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza

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"Save type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza" gofundme.com/f/save-type-des…
Donate to Evacuate type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza, organized by Jan Gerner

Donate to Evacuate type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza, organized by Jan Gerner

My name is Jan Gerner and I go by the artist name Yanone on the internet. … Jan Gerner needs your support for Evacuate type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza

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Armenian readers please do this. The rest please help us spread it. Thank you!
Typotheque (@typotheque) profile pictureTypotheque@typotheque1 Mar 2023
To better to understand Armenian readers preferences and legibility of certain type design choices we prepared an online survey. Do you speak Armenian? Please take part, or help us spread the word. bit.ly/TPTQArmenian23
Armenian type design survey

ALT Armenian type design survey

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New goods in the shop today: A poster for Lyon Arabic designed by @waelmorcos and @debakir, and extra copies of a zine for the Vault that are in the goody bags at this year's @TypographicsNYC commercialtype.com/goods
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Typotheque@typotheque2 May 2022
✍️Help us to collect examples of handwriting from around the world, to learn how people write, and how they interpret handwriting of others. The results of this research will published publicly.✍️ tptq.com/handwriting
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#29LT Zarid #superfamily #sans #serif #slab #text #display . #Latin #arabic #multilingual #biscriptual #biscriptualdesign #multiscriptual #fonts #typefaces . @debakir @retypefoundry @janfromm
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I’m happy to announce ‘Reactions’ my first solo show in Amsterdam at Art 3035 Gallery in collaboration with TPTQ Arabic. I will be showing a collection of my lettering work. Opens on April 29th. Hope to see many of you! art3035gallery.com
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Here's a sneak peek at Bernard Khoury's design for the new #TUMOBeirut, coming in 2023, with over 5,000 square meters of creativity and tech, a capacity of 1,500-2,000 students, and 100% free of charge. Stay tuned!
Image from TUMO / ԹՈՒՄՈ (@tumocenter)
Image from TUMO / ԹՈՒՄՈ (@tumocenter)
Image from TUMO / ԹՈՒՄՈ (@tumocenter)
Image from TUMO / ԹՈՒՄՈ (@tumocenter)
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Typotheque@typotheque5 Apr 2022
We also received a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the @typedirectors #TDC68 for the upcoming Greta Sans Armenian, probably the largest Armenian typeface family ever produced.🏆🏆🏆
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AYWA! Mithaq won a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the @typedirectorsclub #TDC68. Huge thanks goes out to the jury and specifically to @MamounSakkal for choosing it as Judge’s Choice! A custom Arabic typeface for @ArchMOC's King Salman Architecture & Urbanism Charter
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If you were just at our 35 Under 35 session, you know an epic collab between @debakir and Beatriz (Sunday Afternoon) has been promised....AR + Arabic type project on the way!? 🔥
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Wael Morcos@waelmorcos22 Feb 2022
I can't believe it!!😲🤩 It's been 5 years since the launch part of our studio @MorcosKey on 02/22/2017! THANK YOU to every one who has worked with us, to every collaborator or client who trusted us and to everyone who supported us, or who is just a friend of the studio!
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🚨 New article! Towards a Global Definition of Excellence in Type Design by @arabictype. In Part One of this 2-part series, we tackle this question: There are good typefaces, and there are excellent typefaces; what’s the difference? typegeist.org/article/toward…
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huda abifares@khttnet20 Sep 2021
I had the honor and pleasure to curate an exhibition with the work of some of the best Arab and Iranian designers about engaged Graphic design from the Western Asia and North Africa. Look out for a the publication in 2022! Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms khtt.net/en/page/31356/inner…
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lettering for blu 🤍
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Arek « a »looks yummy! Thanks @senyorestudi
Senyor Estudi (@senyorestudi) profile pictureSenyor Estudi@senyorestudi23 Jun 2021
A is for Abril. Arek ⁦@rosettatype⁩
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Typotheque@typotheque14 Jun 2021
We are thrilled to finally present our new, massive type specimen: 2,928 fonts 560 pages 431 translations 175 translators 28 colour permutations 11 Pantone colours 27 essays and script introductions 21 writing scripts 1 poem typotheque.com/blog/new_monu…
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"I come from a place where people inherit olive trees from their ancestors & much of life revolves around honoring that inheritance." In the first story of 7 in our new series on Inner migration, Ibrahim Nehme leaves post-explosion Beirut for the village mashallahnews.com/son-of-the…
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Danah Adullah's take on the current state of design "We continue to populate the world with junk and have become complicit in designing people into a culture of convenience." designrepository.design/agai…
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