Past Workshops

Summer Camp 2017: Week 1

Summer Camp for ages 8+ runs from 9 - 20 July. Tashkeel's Summer Camp is an annual 2-week programme of workshops and experimentation, encouraging young people to use their imagination and make art. E...

Poster Design Workshop

aftermodern.lab inc.

Introducing participants to the expanded field of visual communication and the broad definition of the discipline. This workshop is an exploration in research, concept development, illustration, photo...

Experimental Arabic Type Design

Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

The Khatt Foundation Experimental Arabic Type Design Workshop will consist of an intensive 4-day workshop that focuses on the experimental potential of Arabic typeface design and will pave the ground ...

Introduction to Rhinoceros

Mays Albaik

This workshop will introduce students to the basics of Computer-Aided design, and digital three-dimensional modelling and presentation methods.

AAVS Dubai: Expo 2020 Accelerating Processes

The second edition of The Dubai Visiting School will advance the research of the previous workshop by exploring avant-garde methods of materializing architecture. The outcomes will consist of a specul...

Screenprinting 1

Salama Nasib, Tamsin Wildy

In this one-off session participants will get to understand the basic principles of screen-printing and experience the printing process through using stencil cut-outs, as well as through screen exposu...

The Found Object

Areej Kaoud

The Found Object workshop will start by discussing the found object in its most basic definition, examining the removal of everyday objects from their natural context and bringing them into a gallery ...

Khatt Foundation: Arabic Type Design

The programme for the third Khatt Foundation Type Design Workshop at Tashkeel will cover the complex process of Arabic typeface design – from the creative inception phase, to drawing the letterforms, ...

​Modular Arabic Typeface (Part 2)

In the second part of Modular Arabic Typeface, participants will build on the modular alphabet created in the first workshop and develop a full typeface with all the contextual variants of each letter...

Modular Arabic Lettering (Part 1)

The workshop will focus on learning the basic rules of Arabic letters and type such as structure, proportions, shape and families.

Arabic Calligraphy and Design

The Arabic Calligraphy & Design workshop is composed of a series of lectures and hands-on tutorials that aim to develop the basic skills of calligraphy and explore the usage of calligraphy in design c...