The benefit of Arabic calligraphy aesthetics to enrich youth’s T-shirts printed by the art of typography

Abstract

The Arabic calligraphy represents an important element of the Arab heritage and its appearance is related to the rise and spread of Islam, hence the Arabic calligraphy is the art and design of writing, in which the lines numerous and vary according to forms having aesthetic characteristics. The typography considered the science and art of printed elements. It means the printed units which consist of the different printed elements, such as various forms, shapes and uses- letters, different methods of production, in addition to silhouettes and scriptural art. The digital printing is considered the recent type of printing technology, where printing from the computer directly to the printing machine and the computer helps to increase productivity and quality while reducing the cost, time and effort to finish the various printing processes, accordingly, the research problem came in the main question of how to get benefit of the aesthetic values of the line and the use of it in making designs by typographic designs to enrich digitally printed shirts. The research aims to produce typographic designs using the Arabic calligraphy aesthetics to enrich and print T-shirts for young using digital printing , determining the specialists and consumers in the proposed designs and executing some of them ,in order to increase the general taste of young people in the selection of their clothes , participating in revival of the Arab Islamic heritage through finding modern clothing alternatives with the spirit of heritage for young people , run parallel to the enormous technological progress in the industry in the production and implementation of clothing , the research reached existence of statistical significance differences between the proposed designs ( in achieving of the appropriate elements of design in the designs of young people “peers”- achieving the appropriate digital printing technology for the production of designs – achieving the art principles – achieving functional performances in design ) , presence of statistical significance differences between the proposed designs in achieving the evaluation aspects (as a whole) ,

Keywords

• arabic calligraphy; typography; digital printing