Concepts
Kenophobia, City, Tales; three subjects whose various manifestations in the language of graphic design have long given form to the main body of StudioKargah’s projects.
- City
You cannot pass the same route two times in Tehran, for Tehran is ceaselessly changing. Always in transformation, Tehran is constantly formed and deformed, raised and ruined, developed and deteriorated. Anyway, Tehran is a bountiful megalopolis, as anyone who takes the time to associate with it would come to realize. Over the years, Tehran and […]
- Kenophobia
Etymologically speaking, the word “honar” (art) in Persian signifies virtuosity and perfection in execution, and the ways of achieving such perfection—the use of all potentialities to create that which cannot be surpassed. From architecture, ceramic tiling, mirror tiling, metalwork, brickwork, and tapestry, all the way to illumination, book design, and calligraphy, passionate coloring, repetitive patterns, […]
- Tales
The more expansive a history, one may say, the more substantial and mysterious its tales. Literature, oral and written, is an inseparable part of the Easterners’ everyday life, collective memory, and mythology. As exemplified by the illuminated and illustrated manuscripts of the Islamic period, the history of visual arts in Iran is, considerably, rooted in […]