Lost in Transliteration
- Lost in Transliteration
Arabic adaptations of Venician signage - At the SVA Masters Typography Workshop in Italy last May, I was fascinated by the hand-lettered signage all around Venice. For my week-long project headed by Louise Fili, I decided to study these signs and adapt them into Arabic to create a guidebook about places to eat in Venice.
I used the transliterations of the words instead of the translations to transform the type into a visual form and not a legible one and hand-drew the arabic letters based on the original latin ones. 
Using arabic letterforms, the word spells out 'Gelateria'
"Caffe"
- "ostaria"
- "lost"
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