Workshop at the Sharjah Art Foundation in the UAE
As part of Focal Point 2025, Sharjah’s annual art book fair organised by the Sharjah Art Foundation, Prof. Lars Harmsen and Marian Misiak of Threedotstype led the workshop “Smart Magazine Making”, held on Sunday, 14 December, from 5 to 7 PM. The session brought together more than ten participants, all keen to explore the intersections of design, typography, and independent publishing.
The workshop offered a hands-on introduction to editorial design and experimental magazine production. Instead of focusing solely on theory, participants were encouraged to learn through practice, working with found printed materials that were cut, rearranged, and recombined to produce mini magazines on the spot. The process fostered experimentation through intuitive cutting, layering, arranging, and composing of content.
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SHARJAH ART BOOK FAIR FOCAL POINT
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During the Art Book Fair we were able to present copies of the publication Experimental Type III, edited by students of FH Dortmund and published by Slanted Publishers.
Participants of Focal Point 2025: 100 Trames (Marseille), 32° East (Kampala), 51 Personae (Shanghai), Abdelzahers atelier (Cairo), Abboudi Bou Jaoude Vintage Print Collection (Beirut), Adnan wa Lena (Dubai), Akakir Studio (Algiers), Almas Art Foundation (London), Art Jameel Shop (Dubai), BAMBAM! (Dubai), BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE (Berlin), Bootleg Griot (Dubai), Collected Volumes (Dubai), 展銷場 Display Distribute (Hong Kong), Dream Press (Cape Town), Editions JOJO (Mumbai), Errant Press (Los Angeles), Everything’s Fine (Makati, Philippines), eyen design (Amman), Full Special Studio (Abu Dhabi), Gulf Photo Plus (Dubai), Ikrek (São Paulo), iwalewabooks at 16/16 print studio (Lagos), Jordan, jordan Édition (Jakarta), Kalā Kulo (Patan Dhoka, Nepal), Kaph Books (Dubai/Beirut), Khunfus (Jeddah), Makan Press (New York), Maryam Abu Maash (Ras al-Khaimah), Mauzoun Writing & Publishing (Jeddah), Merath (Tripoli), ODD ONE OUT (Hong Kong), pook aralan unrelearning (Philippines), Raachi press / Umang poetry (Gilgit-Baltistan), Rada and Mutaz Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at AUB (Beirut), REDO Prishtina (Prishtina, Kosovo), Rizo Masr (Cairo), Safena 7 (Cairo), Samaka Snacks (Oman), Samandal (Beirut), Seed Archives (London), Set Margins’ publications (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Shaden Abed-elal (Bethlehem), Shahed Shashaa (Ajman), Sharjah Architecture Triennial (Sharjah), Slanted Publishers (Karlsruhe, Germany), Studio Chimbo (Algiers), Tehran Zine (Tehran), Temporary Press (Singapore), The Africa Institute, Global Studies University (Sharjah), The Creators Economy (Sharjah), The Palestinian Museum (Birzeit), Three Dots Type (Wrocław, Poland), thultha studio (Riyadh), Tiny Studio (Jakarta), Vacilando Bookshop (Bangkok), Vasl Artists‘ Association (Karachi), Warshagraph (Kuwait City).