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Nadine Mouslimani graphic designer, calligraphist, Lebanon
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For my graduation project in a degree in graphic design at the school of graphic arts in Beruit, I decided to look at Bahá´í history for my inspiration as well as analysing the calligraphy of the Bahá´í Persian calligrapher, Mishkín-Qalam (Shíráz, c.1825 - 1912).
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The text is: O SON OF BEING Love me that I may love thee, if thou lovest me not, My love can in no wise reach thee, Know this O Servant
The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh
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Initially I began with photographs of his calligraphy and then later drew from them, making my own adaptions and interpretations, such as in the illustration on the left.
Also as i went deeper into the subject and I started to think about typography and calligraphy and the Arabic alphabet as well as numerology.
Calligraphy is so deep . Each line has it's own explication, and it's own story.
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I am working on publishing my project in a book form but it needs money and many legal work here to get permission to use Mishkín-Qalam's work. Another part of my project was to express Bahá´í Teachings such as the equality of women and men without lot of words, so that the design in the calligraphy itself expressed this.
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The texts are about the equality of women and men with a quotation from 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the right about ours being a less masculine age.
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In the end I graduated with top marks and the project was also reviewed in a Lebanese journal where they discussed the artistic designs I used.
Now after university, three of us opened our own graphic design and architecture company in 2002. The website is www.madnadesign.com (madna means " rising").
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