Past Workshops

Art Club: The Ultimate Sketchbook

Ruben Sanchez

Using collected found material to appropriate, combine, manipulate and reuse.

Art Club: Street Art

Ruben Sanchez

Basic bookbinding skills for artists and designers (Part 1)

Lara Assouad

This workshop will teach the basic principles of single/double/triple signature, Japanese, single sheet, and multiple signature bookbinding techniques to design professionals. Participants will be enc...

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.

Jewellery Making from Wax

Lia Staehlin

This workshop focuses on the skills required to design and produce a jewellery set drawing on the facilities of wax moulding in silver and gold, a method commonly used in the region for elaborate and ...

Skateboarding Lessons

The Tashkeel Skate Program is back and ready to kick off an other season worth of lessons.

Jewellery: Lost in the Map of Sound

“Lost in the maps of sound" is the metaphorical title of the jewellery workshop, which will conduct the participants to a new state. Through several practical exercises and drawing, participants will ...

eL Seed at Zayed University, Dubai

eL Seed

Initially pinned as a lecture with discussion of a future workshop taking place, students were introduced to eL Seed's prior projects and works and the means about overcoming obstacles. Following the ...