Design for Right-to-Left (RTL) Language Audiences | SF

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2019 San Francisco Design Week

Designers of all disciplines are united by the drive to solve problems, advance aesthetics, and re-think the future. The increasing global collaboration among visual designers, industrial designers, strategists, writers, photographers, videographers, illustrators, and artists has created a community of purpose in today’s complex world.

2019 San Francisco Design Week
June 20-28, 2019
Cost: There are events that are free, but some may have admission fees.

The 2019 theme of CommUNITY honors the design discipline’s global unity, which will be celebrated at the opening night party on June 20, 2019 when leading San Francisco and acclaimed international designers showcase original artifacts they have produced especially for the event—posters, typeface, product, sculpture, motion graphic or artwork–– a response to the concept of “communicating unity.”

> Full 2019 Schedule 

Friday, June 8, 2018
2019 San Francisco Design Week

RTL languages — including Arabic, Hebrew and Persian — comprise one of the fastest growing linguisitc demographics in the world. Understand design issues with fonts; icons and user interfaces; directional bias in motion and time; dialects and diglossic code-switching; and web/mobile layout considerations. Learn about factors in data visualization, scanning andhierarchy. Our case study looks at Nadine Chahine’s collaboration with Hermann Zapf to develop an Arabic companion font to Zapfino. Research methods for UX will be discussed, along with Arabic calligraphic art, both abstract and representational.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.