Karim Farah in conversation with Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès [Khatt Chronicles]

Huda AbiFarès interviews Karim Farah about his graphic design and Arabic lettering work. The interview explores the potential of music in Karim’s development of his unique visual language in which he questions the aesthetics of the Kufi style, abstracting it to extract a specific meaning out of compositions, while pushing the legibility of the letters as far they can go before losing recognizabilty, and challenging the reader to ‘read’ them as form and not as linguistic signs.

About Khatt Chronicles

Khatt Chronicles, in collaboration with afikra, features remarkable designers, illustrators, and researchers from the Arab World, in engaging conversations about their practice, vision, and aspirations. A podcast series that chronicles and introduces the latest explorations in Arab visual communication and material culture.