Lettering artist. Type designer. Graphic designer
Joined September 2009
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Khajag Apelian retweeted
11 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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Campaign is live: Save type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza
gofund.me/39ae9000
Please share far and wide and obviously, donate!
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Khajag Apelian retweeted
22 Feb 2024
"Save type designer Hasan Abu Afash from Gaza"
gofundme.com/f/save-type-des…
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3 Mar 2023
Armenian readers please do this. The rest please help us spread it. Thank you!
1 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
ALT Armenian type design survey
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Khajag Apelian retweeted
17 Jun 2022
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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
2 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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
28 Apr 2022
#29LT Zarid #superfamily #sans #serif #slab #text #display
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#Latin #arabic #multilingual #biscriptual #biscriptualdesign #multiscriptual #fonts #typefaces
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@debakir @retypefoundry @janfromm
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Khajag Apelian retweeted
18 Apr 2022
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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
7 Apr 2022
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!
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Khajag Apelian retweeted
5 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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
3 Apr 2022
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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
4 Mar 2022
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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
22 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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
18 Jan 2022
🚨 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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
20 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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
14 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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Khajag Apelian retweeted
22 Feb 2021
"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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25 Feb 2021
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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