Tag: Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections

Arabic Calligraphy Workshop with Hatem Arafa (Online, 15 September – 2 October 2024)

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Registration for the Digital Lab’s upcoming online Arabic calligraphy workshop with Hatem Arafa is now open!

  • Duration: 3 weeks, with two 2-hour lessons per week (total of 6 lessons)
  • Schedule: 15 September – End: 2 October. Each 2-hour session will be held Sundays/Wednesdays between 7-9pm BST.
  • Format: Online on Zoom
  • Focus: Teaching Diwani calligraphy, starting from individual letters to forming words and sentences
  • Places are limited
Details and registration

Bio

Hatem Arafa, a calligrapher with a degree from the Traditional Islamic Arts Faculty at FSMV University in Istanbul, is currently pursuing a master’s in Graphic Design. His notable projects include interior calligraphy for the Cary Mosque, USA (2022), commemorative coins for Djibouti (2023) and Qatar’s World Cup (2022), and the logo and interior calligraphy artworks for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage (2023). Website: hatemarafa.com

Hatem Arafa

Our new info sheet!

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We have a new quick guide to who we are, what we do, who we work with, and WHY we do this work!

You can get it here.

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Announcing our World-Designer in Residence in 2024-25!

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We are delighted to announce that Maxime Durand, Ubisoft’s World-Design Director and a long-time franchise historian for Assassin’s Creed, will be our Digital Lab World-Designer in Residence in 2024-25!

Thanks to support from Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh, Durand will hold a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship from May 2024 to February 2025, supporting the conception phase for Digital Munya 3, our planned free-to-play educational game and GLAM collaboration. For more information on the Digital Munya project see our website here.

In keeping with our aim to provide students with public impact experience across academic, games, and GLAM sectors, we will be accepting applications for roles on the Digital Munya 3 development team. A separate announcement with details of the roles and information on how to apply will be circulated separately via the Digital Lab community email list.

Questions? Write to us at info@digitallabivcc.com