Organized by the Gulf Association Press at Al-Bayyan Newspaper in Dubai, Arabictypography.com conducted a workshop and Seminar on Art Direction and Design for Newspapers on 24 and 25 November 2010. The event was open for a limited number of news designers from the Gulf area. The workshop, conducted by Tarek Atrissi, focused on presenting case studies of successful international design solutions in the News Design sector: discussing exceptional info-graphics solutions, as well as typo-graphic design solution used in an editorial political news context.
The status of design in the Arab World was showcased and practical design and typography assignments in info-graphics design was given to the participants.
This workshop was the first event in a series of News Design related workshops to travel across the Gulf Area.