Shaymaa Jalil
Research Assistant, Interior Design Department
Calligraphy is an art of figuring aesthetically appealed signs, symbols, and texts by hand. Calligraphy is a set of techniques that can be used for positioning and shaping words so they show unity, harmony, aesthetic talent and creativity. The art of Calligraphy needs a little talent, time, patience and more practices, so you can reach the desired level in this art. Ink, reed pen or normal pen, and paper are what calligraphers need. Though, recently it stepped to digital platforms instead of actually writing them by hand. Calligraphy has many significant benefits for the learner such as:
- Calligraphy animate neuronal activities, helps your brain develop a wider vocabulary of writing texts that are more extensive.
- Habiting hand writing activity helps one digest information faster, it helps the writer to concentrate for longer periods of time.
- It develops an acute haptical perception. Increases tactile senses that we lost when typing with electronic devices especially smart phones.
- Calligraphy is important in creating many nerve connections which help learning and creating ideas more quickly.
- Calligraphy helps the mind of writer to relax.
Recently the interior decorations and design are popular, especially people searching for some traditional and hand-made elements in the interior decoration, mostly its related to special hand writing art frames on the wall or calligraphy-shaped furniture, wall panel elements and accessories such as printed wall papers for interior walls, decorating mirrors, tables, book shelves and many other interior furnitures.
Below are several examples of calligraphic artworks made by Shaymaa Jalil, a research assistance at Interior Design Department of the TIU. In these artworks, she used different styles of calligraphy that shows brilliant and creative ideas illustrated in digital and hand-written works.
