Participants will be introduced to Tashkeel's Riso ME 9350 Printer to create an edition of 30 bilingual, A3 gig posters in Arabic and English to promote a selection of musicians.

16 November | 5pm – 8pm
Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba 1

Participants will be introduced to Tashkeel's Riso ME 9350 Printer to create an edition of 30 bilingual, A3 gig posters in Arabic and English to promote a selection of musicians. This digital, eco-friendly printer uses soy oil based ink.

This workshop is part of Weltformat DXB.

About Weltformat & Tashkeel

This internationally recognised festival introduces design enthusiasts to different poster trends in Switzerland and promotes the poster medium in all its facets.

Weltformat DXB is a collaboration between Tashkeel, Welformat (a collective of graphic designers from Lucerne), Cairo-based designer Engy Aly and Mobius Design Studio’s Design House, with the support of Pro-Helvetia. It will be supported by four poster design workshops, three public talks and a publication.

In parallel, there will be an exhibition of posters created in response to the theme of Delusions and Errors by a diverse group of designers from the MENA region. It attempts to explore notions of embracing seemingly imperfect processes, malfunctions, or the unpredictability of different methodologies of working.

Sarah Alfarhan

Sarah Alfarhan is an illustrator + graphic designer based in Dubai, UAE. She utilizes her bilinguality in her creative process to maintain a flexible and a hybrid approach when it comes to ideation and problem solving.

Sarah's background in printmaking (screenprinting and letterpress), textile arts (felting and weaving/sadu), and illustration feeds into her graphic design practice. She earned a BFA in illustration from The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and an MS in Communication Design from Pratt Institute (New York, NY). Sarah's inspiration comes from children's picture-books and music.

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