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PROSE Award Winner, Art History & Criticism
The first-ever book-length history of Arab graphic design

Arab
graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to
influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social,
and political changes that were taking place in the Arab world at the
time. But graphic design as a formally recognized genre of visual art
only came into its own in the region in the twenty-first century and, to
date, there has been no published study on the subject to speak of.

A History of Arab Graphic Design
traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a
field of graphic design in the Arab world. Examining the work of over
eighty key designers from Morocco to Iraq, and covering the period from
pre-1900 to the end of the twentieth century, Bahia Shehab and Haytham
Nawar chart the development of design in the region, beginning with
Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy, and their impact on Arab visual
culture, through to the digital revolution and the arrival of the
Internet. They look at how cinema, economic prosperity, and political
and cultural events gave birth to and shaped the founders of Arab
graphic design.

Highlighting the work of key designers and stunningly illustrated with over 600 color images, A History of Arab Graphic Design is
an invaluable resource tool for graphic designers, one which, it is
hoped, will place Arab visual culture and design on the map of a
thriving international design discourse.