Colourful Life: a 9x9 Kufic Square.

Experimenting with a new concept: Kufic Square (Arabic) + Jawi (Malay) + Mandarin (Chinese). The phrase should read 'Wa Ai Ni' (Wah-Eye-Knee), Mandarin for 'I love you'.

kufi and khat

A sharing of two designs proudly displayed in our house:

A square kufic reading 'Allah' in Arabic: Acrylic on canvas. Our own design.

A calligraphic piece - a khat - reading 'nagfa' and our names, designed by Malaysia's awangpurba, one of the best we've known in the fields of Islamic art. His website: here.

Square kufi designs (Romanized):

square kufi: Nayla Najwa

Returning to an old love, Square Kufi. A design for our daughter:

Pardon the gaps; done using the basic of tools: basic shapes in MS PowerPoint.

A by-product of a another design. 13x13 Square Kufic.

One of our most challenging requests yet. Five names in a traditional square kufi. We tinkered with each character-form, and their configurations, and after three long early morning hours - Nag did this during his shift looking over Nayla Najwa - it's finally done:

square kufi: 5-in-1

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For an easier reading, we present:

square kufi: 5-in-1

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...which when spread, reads:

nariza, razlan, ashwyn, ashraf & alysa

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Our sincere thank you to Tuan Azlan for his unwavering trust and very positive feedback, without which we could have never dug deep to produce this.