Faafous is a typeface designed as part of the Arabic Type Design Beirut workshop in 2019, lead by Kristyan Sarkis and Lara Captan. This rounded Ruqaa’-based typeface was the result of two weeks of intensive work.

The word Aziz means “Dear” in Arabic. It is also my grandfather’s name, a person with whom I shared my love for Arabic type and the Arabic scripts. This font, being my first Arabic type design project completed during my studies at AUB, was dedicated to him.

Aziz is a Naskh-based display typeface. It’s high contrast and thick baseline make it suitable for headers, titles, posters and other big-scale applications.

Dongola is a Beirut-based publication house that creates art books offering unconventional perspectives on art and contemporary topics in the MENASA region today. The company kickstarted at the end of 2017. Its logo and visual identity were created by Reza Abedini, and the motion graphics below were made to announce the launch of their social media account.

Art Direction by Reza Abedini.

Typoem was an Arabic Typography Workshop lead by Reza Abedini, during which the participants had the chance to experiment with Arabic Typography using the Arabic poems of their choice. The artworks produced were later bound into a publication that was launched and sold at the exhibition space Dar El-Nimer.

Art direction by Reza Abedini

A title sequence of 47 seconds for a television series based on Meg Cabot’s fictional book The Mediator. The animation is, in parts, done in stop-motion. The diary reflects the main character – a teenager who leads a double life: average high-school girl by day, fighting the dead by night.

An ident of 17 seconds that reveals a logo, designed for a conceptual printing press. This animation was done as part of a Motion Graphics course, while completing my BFA is Graphic Design.

City Debates is a yearly conference organized by the Masters in Urban Planning & Policy and Masters in Urban Design Programs at the American University of Beirut. City Debates 2018 held the topic of “Architecture-As-Urbanism.”​

Art Direction by Reza Abedini.

Silk Road is a Persian film production house. The logo and visual identity are created by Reza Abedini. The below motions are options for logo openings.

Art direction by Reza Abedini

An announcement poster for an outdoor screening of the French movie Jules et Jim by Francois Truffaut. The three colors, as well as the interlace of words, create the same atmosphere of bonding formed by the love triangle depicted in the movie. 

This country is a furnished apartment or “هذه البلاد شقة مفروشة” is a poem written by the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani. The poem talks about the ruler of Qabbani’s country, whom he recurrently compares to the fictional character Antara or “عنترة”. This tryptic series of posters experiments with Arabic typography while highlighting the omnipresence, dictatorially ruling Antara that Qabbani speaks of in this poem.