Lettering, stenciling and shop signs, as part of the urban typography that dominates the visual language of Caracas, capital of Venezuela. Photography by Hilda Mecharrafie.

By Tarek Atrissi

We travel, and always look at the street typography that defines the character of every city and new urban environment we experience. I enjoyed documenting the street graphics and typography in my latest trip across Panama, and so did Hilda in her travel in Venezuela. A quick preview shown in the images below, giving a taste of the rich typography in central and Latin America.

Preview of street typography from Panama.

By Tarek Atrissi

I consider book jacket design one of the hardest disciplines in Graphic Design. Much of the essence of the book has to be illustrated on one visual, and the you aim to make the book “reads” from its cover. Just finished the challenging project of designing the book jacket for the “Diet and Overweight Perception” book, by Mary Nicolaou, an explorative study among migrant groups in the Netherlands in the Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese communities. The final design of the book cover, mixing Arabic Typography with photography, is shown below.