Tarek Atrissi Design Wins Prestigious D&AD Award

Tarek Atrissi Design have been awarded the prestigious Graphite Pencil from the D&AD awards; The awards that are ...

Tarek Atrissi speaker at SVA New York

Tarek Atrissi was invited to the School of Visual Arts in New York, to give a lecture in the occasion of the 20th years ...

Open call: Design & Arabic Typography Research in Egypt

The Creative Industries Funds NL, the Dutch cultural funds for design, has awarded us at Tarek Atrissi Design a generous ...


Tarek Atrissi to speak at the 2019 Brand New Conference in Las Vegas.

Tarek Atrissi will be one of the speakers at the 2019 Brand New Conference, the highly regarded international conferences on ...

Solo Exhibition Tarek Atrissi Design in Kuwait new museum

In the last quarter of 2018, a solo exhibition of the work of Tarek Atrissi Design was hosted in Kuwait in the new ...

Tarek Atrissi receives the 2018 AUB Distinguished Alumni Award

The American University of Beirut (AUB) selected Tarek Atrissi to receive the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is ...


Grand Egyptian Museum Branding: The Design Process Beyond the Controversy

By Tarek Atrissi One of our most recent completed project at Tarek Atrissi Design was the new visual identity design for ...

Tarek Atrissi Selected Among “The 100” Influential Lebanese Around the Globe.

Tarek Atrissi was selected among the 100 influential Lebanese professionals from around the world. The list included ...

Tarek Atrissi Speaker at Saudi Design Week

For the 2017 edition of the Saudi Design Week, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tarek Atrissi was invited to be a speaker at ...


Tarek Atrissi advisor for “Creative Industries Fund NL”

The Creative Industries Fund NL (Het Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie) has appointed Tarek Atrissi as a member of the ...

A tribute to Muhyeddine Al Labbad: Arabic Revival Typeface

At Tarek Atrissi Design, we have been for very long the biggest admires of the work of the late Egyptian designer and ...

Tarek Atrissi Selected for “Flags of Peace” international design project

Tarek Atrissi has been selected to take part of the international design project "Flags of Peace", an outdoor design ...


Tarek Atrissi on Al-Jazeera English Television documentary

Tarek Atrissi was part of the special documentary by Al-Jazeera English Television in "The Listening Post" show; the media ...

SVA New York honors Tarek Atrissi

We are proud and excited to announce that the School of Visual Arts in New York (SVA) has added Tarek Atrissi to its list of ...

Tarek Atrissi Design featured in TDC’s “Typography 34” annual

"Typography 34", the annual publication of the Type Directors Club in New York, has featured Tarek Atrissi Design in a full ...


Design workshop at the Amman Design Institute

By invitation from the Design Institute Amman in Jordan, Tarek Atrissi conducted a design workshop in Amman, Jordan from 11 ...

SVA Masters Workshop in Rome, Italy

For the third time since the start of the program 6 years ago, I have been invited to be part of the School of Visual ...

Bahrain National Museum Visual Identity

2013 has been a great year for us at Tarek Atrissi Design. We got the chance this past year to work on some fascinating ...

Why design fails: the new 50.000 Lebanese Lira banknote design

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Lebanon's independence, Lebanon’s Central Bank issued a 50.000 Lebanese Lira ...

Tarek Atrissi Design featured in “Design Firms Open for Business”

Tarek Atrissi Design is featured in the design book "Design Firms Open for Business", the latest design book by Lita ...

10 years after: the 10 things I learned in my graduate studies at SVA

By Tarek Atrissi It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since I graduated from SVA, the School of Visual Arts in ...

Arabic music meets Arabic calligraphy

By Tarek Atrissi I have worked recently on designing a visual identity for Salon Joussour, a music event taking place ...

The top 10 Arabic design clichés

By Tarek Atrissi The graphic design scene is still relatively a budding profession in the Arab world. The domain has ...

Logo and typography design for Jeem TV; the new branding for Al Jazeera Children Channel

by Tarek Atrissi After several month of hard work, the new branding for al-Jazeera's Children Channel (JCC) saw the ...

Interview for Al Jazeera TV

by Tarek Atrissi Last week I was interviewed by Al Jazeera TV network in my office in holland. The interview is part ...

V&A Museum Exhibition Graphics

By Tarek Atrissi Over a period of 10 month, I was involved in one of the most exciting design projects I have worked ...

Fikr Conference Visual Identity

by Tarek Atrissi Every year, the Arab Thoughts Foundation hosts FIKR, an annual conference that takes place in a ...

Judging the TDC competition in New York

by Tarek Atrissi I am very honored to be one of the judges for the 59th TDC Annual International Communication Design ...

Typeface Design for STC, Saudi Telecom Group

We have designed a new typeface for the Saudi Telecom Group, STC. The bilingual font, Arabic and Latin, is a key component ...

Lectures and Workshops in New York, Dubai, Holland, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Portugal & Lebanon

My schedule for the upcoming period is very active! I will be participating at international design conferences and events ...

Bilingual book design: “We’ll make our homes here: Sudan at the Referendum”

Editorial and book design is a discipline we very much enjoy working in, particularly because it embodies every designer's ...

More Arabic Type Design Projects

Arabic Type design and development remains one of our key areas of focus at Tarek Atrissi Design. This year hasn't been an ...

Never Enough Typography Education: My Type@Cooper Experience

by Tarek Atrissi One of the main challenges facing a practicing designer is staying creatively inspired and constantly ...

New visual identity for the Utrecht School of the Arts (KMT-HKU)

by Tarek Atrissi For the past couple of years we have been working regularly on building the visual identity for the ...

Type Design for the Arab Museum of Modern Art

by Tarek Atrissi Since our start as a design studio, we have been heavily involved in designing original Arabic ...

Barcelona Design top picks

By Tarek Atrissi Designers are a particular type of tourists. They travel to get inspired, to experience a foreign design ...

New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

Posted by Tarek Atrissi I was glad to be part - as a contributing Author - of the book “New Vision: Arab ...

SVA’s Masters Design workshop in Venice and Rome

Posted by Tarek Atrissi For the second year, I will be a guest critic at the School of Visual Art’s workshop in Design ...

Hollandia Game

Posted by Tarek Atrissi The second half of the year started at the Utrecht School of the Arts, where I teach at the ...

Adobe Judging process Video

A nice Video documentary by Adobe, showcasing the process of Judging the last Adobe Design Achievement Award competition in ...

Adobe Design Achievement Awards judging

By Tarek Atrissi Judges of the ADAA competition with Adobe and Icograda staff, and images of the judging process. ...

Saudi Graphic Design Week

By Tarek Atrissi I was glad to take part of the graphic design week in Saudi Arabia, organized by Dar El Hekma ...

Film Festival Poster

Our winning poster design proposal for the competition of designing the 31st edition of the Mediterranean Film Festival of ...

Arabic lettering workshops in Kuwait

Preview from the workshop process: Above: Lettering by Anwar Ghader . Below: Sketches and process work by various ...

More workshops in Abu Dhabi

More workshops in Abu Dhabi By Tarek Atrissi I always enjoy returning to the HCT colleges in Abu Dhabi to conduct the ...

Panama & Venezuela Street Typography

Lettering, stenciling and shop signs, as part of the urban typography that dominates the visual language of Caracas, capital ...

Book Cover

By Tarek Atrissi I consider book jacket design one of the hardest disciplines in Graphic Design. Much of the essence of ...

El hema is back!

By Tarek Atrissi Water bottle packaging for the El Hema Oasis Desert water. El Hema, the Arabic fictive (yet real) ...

Lectures & Travel

By Tarek Atrissi It has been an active end of the year, particularly with the lectures I have been invited to give at ...

Atrissi-Sans Typeface takes off

By Tarek AtrissiThe Atrissi-Sans Typeface is quickly taking a life on its own, and I am pleased to see it in use in so many ...

A New Typeface for the BBC Farsi new TV Channel

By Tarek Atrissi Earlier this year we designed a custom Arabic font for the new BBC Arabic TV channel. A similar yet ...

The Big Friendly Giant

By Tarek Atrissi I have been for the last six month advising and guiding masters students at the Gaming Design department ...

Arabic Volkskrant

By Tarek Atrissi Another Arabic Logo Adaptation assignment; and again in Holland, where the discussion of the influences ...

Visual Narratives From Arabia

by Tarek Atrissi Published by Unesco and co-authored by Tarek Atrissi and Huda Abifares, "Visual Narratives from ...

Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!

By Tarek Atrissi TypoDag 2008 Design symposium in Amsterdam, under the Theme "freedom of the designer". The day ...

Morocco: Colors, Type and signs

By Tarek Atrissi Morocco has definitely its own unique style, and the visually and graphically rich journey I experienced ...

Arabic Graphics Exhibition Opening.

By Tarek Atrissi Promotional posters of the exhibitions across the streets of Amsterdam The Opening of our ...

Neighborhood Typography

By Tarek Atrissi Preview for the hand made multilingual "goodbye" posts of the project "Partir c'est mourir un ...

The New Design conference

By Tarek Atrissi I am on average speaking every two or three weeks in a design seminar, conference, or school, somewhere ...

Arabic Graphics, in the heart of Amsterdam.

By Tarek Atrissi "Arabic Graphics: The work of Tarek Atrissi in Exhibition" will be the title of the Graphic and ...

Patterns of Oman

By Tarek Atrissi Preview of different Arabic & Arabesque Patterns from Oman. The best thing about the Arab ...

The “written voice” of BBC Arabic:
Typographic branding of the new channel

By Tarek Atrissi BBC Arabic, the new Arabic Speaking London based News TV station has officially started its broadcast ...

In Dubai:
“The Silent Revolution” and “typographic fingerprints”

By Tarek Atrissi It is always exciting to be in Dubai. No matter how not far your latest visit was, you will always be ...

Amnesty International chooses for Al-Ghad font

By Tarek Atrissi The new look and feel of the Amnesty International Website brought with it a change to their Arabic Logo ...

Posters of the Palestine Show on the Streets of Amsterdam

By Tarek Atrissi The opening of "Palestine, the Art of survival", organized by the "DeLavente foundation", was launched ...

On Air Elements for MTV Arabia.

By Tarek Atrissi MTV Arabia have launched two weeks ago, creating a buzz in the Arab world, particularly Dubai, as the ...

MTV Arabia: Arabic & Latin custom font

By Tarek Atrissi Another exciting type design project came our way at Tarek Atrissi Design The Launch of the Arabic ...

Long live the Master!

 By Tarek Atrissi Images taken at the Opening of "The Masters Series: Steven Heller" exhibition at the Visual Arts ...

Abu Dhabi Typography workshop

 By Tarek Atrissi As I prepare the new workshop that I will be giving in Abu Dhabi at the Higher Colleges of ...

Jakarta: Welcome to the urban Jungle – FDG expo 2007 conference- Indonesia

By Tarek Atrissi From the workshop session I gave as part of FGD Expo 2007 in Indonesia. With the assignment ...

Fedra Arabic: The Typographic Matchmaking experience.

 By Tarek Atrissi   Preview of Fedra Arabic and its common characteristic with its Latin counterpart. Last ...

El Hema Arabic Logo Debate

By Tarek Atrissi Few weeks ago, we were asked at the office of Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com) to design an Arabic ...

Arabic Type Design

By Tarek Atrissi Since I started my Design Studio- Tarek Atrissi Design- Back in 2000; we have been more and more ...

Sharjah Workshop: Arabic Newspaper Design

 By Tarek Atrissi   Abeer Tahlac's work at the AUS typography workshop given by Tarek Atrissi Just got back from ...

Typographic Landscape of the Arab World- End of Course

by Tarek Atrissi The Course I gave wit Unesco as part of the DigiArts project (Masters Module on Arts, Design and ...

Typographic Visual documentation

by Tarek Atrissi Below is the short description of the course I am giving in collaboration with Unesco. Having the ...

DigiArts course

by Tarek Atrissi The DigiArts course have been taking place for the last 4 weeks- and taking an interesting direction. ...

Typographic Landscape in the Arab World

By Tarek Atrissi Typographic Landscape in the Arab World Masters Module on Arts, Design and Technology UNESCO This ...

Graphics in the environment- Student work from VCU Qatar

Graphics in the Environment Student work from the Arabic Typography course at VCU Qatar (Virginia Commonwealth ...

Arabic Street Typeface

By Tarek Atrissi A typographic experimental exercise, developed at the Workshop I gave at NDU [Notre Dame University] in ...

Street Graphics and typography from three different Arabic countries

By Tarek Atrissi Lebanon , Egypt and Qatar. The three photos shown here show documented environmental graphics ...

More Images from Dubai…

 By Tarek Atrissi More touring around in Dubai, taking advantage of my presence here to document the street ...

Typographic Landscape of Dubai

 By Tarek Atrissi I am still in Dubai, teaching a short term at the Visual Communication Department at the American ...

Flowers of the East: Modern Arabic and Iranian Posters- Dutch Poster Museum, Holland

 By Tarek Atrissi The exhibition of Arabic and Iranian posters opened at the Dutch Poster Museum in April. I have ...

Print Magazine’s article: East West

By Tarek Atrissi The lastest copy of Print magazine came my way with a great article featuring my work. I have been a ...