Islamic tiling and calligraphy

[julesjones]

A commenter on Making Lightnotes that there is an excellent article on Islamic tile design in the current issue of Saudi Aramco World, including the Moorish designers' discovery of quasi-non-periodic tiling rather a long time ago.

He also linked to a fascinating article on the history and problems of typesetting Arabic script. If you're interested in either calligraphy or the geeky aspects of typesetting this is well worth a read.

I think I must have a ferret around this magazine's website when I have more time...