Sultan Maqtari

Sultan Maqtari

Name: Sultan Mohammed Saeed Noman Al-Maqtari
Date of Birth: (1962) Aden, Yemen
Current Occupation: Type Designer
Year of Graduation: (1992)Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Moscow.
Qualifications: MA in Sociology

Skills & Education

Sultan Mohammed Saeed Noman, calligrapher and type designer

Birth: Aden, Yemen 1962.

Current status: Calligrapher and typeface designer

Academic qualification: MA in Sociology 1992 from the Humanitarian Academy of Sciences – Moscow

Studies and Prominent works

–Succeeded in adding the South Arabian writing (Musnad) in the International Code-Unicode, Language department, California University (2007)

–Developed more than 130 Arabic digital fonts for scripts, headlines, display, and web (2000-2016)

–Sultan’s Fonts book (2009)

– Study- A glimpse of designing an Arabic typeface (2011)

–Developed a ‘Naskh’ typeface simulating the normal handwriting for Qur’an and literature (2008-2011)

–Study- Developing the digital ‘Ruq’ah’: an innovative way in Arabic print (2012)

–teaching Graphics in a number of institutes: Sisco, Newhorizons

–A number of art works and digital art (displayed in my personal website http://sultanfonts.com/ facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B7-%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86/154942721185200?fref=ts and flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/sultan_maktari

Important awards

–A recognition certificate from the University of Aden on designing the South Arabian font (Musnad) (2006)

–First place award for scripts in the International Competition for designing typography in Dubai (2006)

–Second place award for headlines in the International Competition for designing typography in Dubai (2006)

–A medallion from the forth conference for Arabic typography in Sharjah (2010)

–A recognition certificate from the conference of King Fahd Complex for the most famous Mushaf-Qur’an calligraphers in the world (2011)

–The silver award in the International Competition ‘Horouf’ for digital fonts designing (2014)

 

Important Conferences and Contributions

– A recognition certificate from the University of Aden on designing the South Arabian font (Musnad) (2006)
– First place award for scripts in the International Competition for designing typography in Dubai (2006)
– Second place award for headlines in the International Competition for designing typography in Dubai (2006)
– A medallion from the forth conference for Arabic typography in Sharjah (2010)
– A recognition certificate from the conference of King Fahd Complex for the most famous Mushaf-Qur’an calligraphers in the world (2011)
– The silver award in the International Competition ‘Horouf’ for digital fonts designing (2014)
Important Conferences and Contributions:
– Dubai: Arabic calligraphy conference (Kitabat 2006) American University
– California: Adding the South Arabian writing (Musnad) to the International Code, Language department (2007)
– Sharjah: the forth conference for Arabic calligraphy (2010) individual gallery of 10 digital art pieces
– Sharjah: the forth conference for Arabic calligraphy (2010) a presentation on developing the digital Naskh
– Al-madeena: the conference of King Fahd Complex for the most famous Mushaf-Qur’an calligraphers in the world (2011) two workshops on developing typography
– Kuwait: the international competition (Huroof) (2014)
– Sharjah: Sharjah calligraphy conference “Noqta” seventh meeting (2016) invited for participation.

 

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