Arab Design Now Book
Arab Design Now presents a survey of local and regional design talent across disciplines, from architectural and material innovations to contemporary crafts, furniture, fashion, graphic, and object design.
Working across themes of material and visual culture and expression, environmental and innovative use of materials, and considerations of technique, detail, pattern, and aesthetic, the volume highlights design excellence from across the region of the Levant, the Gulf, and North Africa. Looking beyond a globalised or imported design language, the exhibition is a reflection on what it means to create in our region today.
This catalogue incorporates interviews with participating designers and partner organisations, as well as critics, curators and others in the field. The book is an indispensable guide to design in the Arab world.
Contents
Foreword
Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Introduction
Glenn Adamson
Curatorial Essay
Rana Beiruti
Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop, Studio Anne Holtrop, Ishraq Zraikat, Dina Haddadin, Asma Derouiche, Nahla Tabbaa, Amina Agueznay, Louis Barthélemy, Studio Manda, Bone, Clayper_artisan, Talin Hazbar, Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council, Abdulrahman Al Muftah, Salima Naji, Sama El Saket, Adrian Pepe, Omar Chakil, Lina Alorabi for Don Tanani, Nader Gammas, Sizar Alexis, Samer Selbak, Abeer Seikaly, Hiba Shahzada, NEW SOUTH, TypeAraby and xLab, Fabraca Studios, Ali Kaaf, TSAKHI, Mary-Lynn & Carlo, Architects Independent, Nada Rizk, Christian Zahr Studio, Civil Architecture, Desert Cast Collective, Mohammad Sharaf, Maryam Al-Homaid, Aisha Nasser Al Sowaidi, Sahel Alhiyari, Amine Asselman, Hamza Kadiri for Ateliers Courbet, bahraini-danish, Najla El Zein, Carla Baz, Tamara Barrage, Flavie Audi, Moïo Studio, Thomas Trad, Aline Asmar d'Amman, Bricklab & 6:AM, Richard Yasmine, david/nicolas, Karen Chekerdjian Studio, Filwa Nazer, 40MUSTAQEL, Nora Aly, Nedim Kufi, Sherine Salla, Noor Alwan, Designer Little, Anastasia Nysten, Ornamental by Lameice, Bokja, Ishraq and Tasneem Zraikat, MODU Method
Exhibited Works
Credits
