GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION
Design for The Unknown Soldier Monument, Aleppo, Syria (project)
The calligraphy based on Eastern Kufic style is transformed from a two dimensional
image to a three dimensional object and made into a museum building.
The calligraphy becomes the architecture and the architecture becomes the sculpture.
The Arabic text used in this design reads: The martyr is the noblest
of men, the most generous person on earth
Project: Unknown Soldier Monumnet Museum Building
Client: Ministry of Culture, Damascus, Syria.
Architect/Calligrapher: Mamoun Sakkal
1975
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