Utilizing Bilingual Letters as A Source of Furniture Design

Abstract

Abstract

This paper describes a studio project that aims to use the typography in different disciplines of design such as architecture, interior design, and graphic design. It intends to explore the outcome and the interpretation of incorporating bilingual letters of Arabic and Latin in contemporary design patterns with the purpose of  discovering new inventive designs to reconfigure the state-of-the-art structure in a creative methodology. This investigation will stress structural interior design personality using bilingual letters and transmit them in interior design as objects not letters.

Calligraphy, letteration and typography have been inadequately used in interior design and furniture as 3d structure. While they are taken into consideration in fine arts and other forms of design. This study explores the potentials of utilizing bilingual letters (Arabic/Latin) in both interior and furniture design. The different styles of bilingual letters form a great part of this research.

A design experiment is done with students of Department of Design and Applied Arts in the second semester 2019/2020 at Yarmouk University in Jordan as a piece of Advanced Typography class.