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Type: a challenge for the 2nd millennium |
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Author
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares is a graphic designer working in France. She
teaches at the Graphic Design program of the American University of Beirut.
She is currently working on a sourcebook about contemporary Arabic type
design and typographers.
This article has been published in Baseline InternationalTypographics Magazine
issue #26 1998 - www.baselinemagazine.com, and reprinted here with permission.
