Rayan Abdullah
Rayan Abdullah ( Arabic ريان عبدالله; born 1957 in Mosul , Iraq ) is a typographer and designer. Since 2001 he has been professor of typography at the Leipzig University of Art and Graphics .
Career
Rayan Abdullah attended the Technical Secondary School in his native city of Mosul until 1978 . He then went to Romania to study and then to Berlin. At the University of the Arts he studied cultural education until 1984 and then visual communication until 1989 . In his diploma thesis in 1989 he dealt with Arabic script art and graduated as a designer . After completing his training, Abdullah worked in various agencies until 2000. At the same time he taught font design at the Lette Association from 1993 to 2001 . Since 2001 he has been professor of typography at the Leipzig University of Art and Graphics . There, in 2016, he initiated a project in which refugees can continue a design course that they started in their home country in Leipzig. In 2005 and 2007 he was a member of the jury of the Saxon State Prize for Design .
Publications (selection)
- with Roger Hübner : Pictograms and icons. Compulsory or optional? Verlag Herman Schmitz, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-87439-649-3 .
- with Karsten Henze: Forms - from cradle to grave: forms in corporate design. Stiebner, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8307-1339-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on the website of the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art, last accessed on December 6, 2017.
- ↑ Biography on Rayan Abdullah's website, last accessed December 6, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abdullah, Rayan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | ريان عبدالله (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Typographer and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mosul |