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Poster by Lebanese graphic designer Kristyan Sarkis, co-founder of TPTQ Arabic

“If the Roman letter was born in stone, Arabic is a product of the pen... Arabic calligraphy represents one of humankind’s most generative and expressive graphic systems. (The so-called arabesque itself is often calligraphic inscription.)

But while calligraphers embraced the most fanciful hand-drawn experimentation, the mechanization and standardization of Arabic letters was a contested act fraught with ominous cross-cultural implications.

While the first printing presses arrived in the Middle East within a century of Gutenberg’s prototypical disruptive technology, the region did not experience the same information revolution that mechanization engendered in Europe. In fact, the Ottoman bureaucracy almost concurrently outlawed, by penalty of death, the mechanization of Arabic text, ostensibly to safeguard sacred scripture from the infection of infidel technology, but also most certainly to protect the centralized authority of scribes who were in effect the productive engine of information dissemination.

This outright rejection of typographic technology hobbled the development of an Arabic mass media for hundreds of years with significant cultural repercussions: information was heavily restricted by the theocracy, books remained rare and expensive, and literacy rates severely suppressed...”

– Indecipher­ability by Michael Rock, 2016, for 2x4 design consultancy, New York City

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Excerpts from Prada, book by Michael Rock

Originally published in 2009.

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Honcho, January 1983 ph. Roberto Rabanne and Michael Rock

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Well, what with gay Santa Clauses coming out of the closet, at least in Quebec (see page 5), we decided such a momentous occasion deserved some sort of special attention. Michael Rock lensed a series of titillating shots with a satirical variation on this theme for his provocative line of greeting cards, Rockshots. Here and in our other Christmas photos, Kris Kringle definitely has his hands full of something other than toys as he comes bearing bare gifts for the Yuletide. There is unquestionably something hot about to happen, and it has absolutely nothing to do with chestnuts roasting on an open fire. There's even a touch of something for you leathermen, specificially Claus' sensual black gloves. This something for almost everyone extends to Santa's humpy helper who is quite skilled when it comes to hanging balls… on Christmas trees. Or would you prefer he assist you in making certain the proper things are well hung…meaning stockings, of course. Enough puns for now. Just remember that Christmas is a time for international brotherhood and loving your fellow man. We want you to remember this holiday season and give you a final reminder with the ensuing photograph which we couldn't resist entitling "Sandy Claus."

Mandate, January 1980 photographed by Michael Rock for Rockshots

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