Arab Film Festival Invitation

Intermedia Arts, 2003

2-color offset (aqua + dark brown), french fold

5" x 7" --> 10" x 14"

As the United States was preparing to invade Iraq, the question of “What is ‘Arabness’?” was hard to answer. Instead, the design ideas came from the title and how the films represented a small piece of a complex and diverse cultural identity. Therefore the images, and some text, exist in and near white voids, but those elements can never completely fill or align with those voids properly. The images used throughout are stills from the films.

Festival Invitation

The interior of the invitation is a poster containing the festival schedule and list of films. Dual purpose invitations were an Intermedia Arts trademark due to its limited printing and mailing budgets.

Arab Film Festival Guide

Intermedia Arts, 2003

1-color offset (dark brown), 16 pages, saddle-stitch

7" x 7"

Intermedia Arts distributed this guide to festival attendees. The guide contains a curator's statement, film stills and descriptions, filmmakers' biographies and other pertinent festival information.

Interior spread

An early cut of Process Type Foundry's typeface, FIG Script, is used throughout. The typeface has since been re-released with a different lowercase "r".

festival guide (detail)