Print & Art Direction

Islamic Wall Art

A series of Arabic calligraphy prints sold as framed trios, pairs and single prints, each with a restrained English translation.

Role: Print design, typesetting, art direction
Disciplines: Print, Gifts & Stationery

The challenge

Bilingual devotional prints are easy to get wrong: the Arabic carries the weight and the meaning, so an English translation set too large or too decoratively starts to argue with it, and the piece stops feeling calm on a wall.

Three gold-framed prints on a beige and gold ground: ease after hardship, O my Lord increase me in knowledge, and Allah is sufficient for me — The Quranic trio: three short verses, one shared margin.

The approach

We let the calligraphy own the optical centre and set the translation small, in a quiet sans, with wide letter-spacing well below the artwork — supporting text, never a second headline. A shared margin and a fixed ratio of script-to-white across the series means individual prints hang together as a set, and each one holds its own on a wall at a distance.

Three black-framed prints on grey marble: Muhammad, Ayat al Kursi in a circular composition, and Allah — Allah, Ayat al Kursi and Muhammad, set to hang as one band.

The outcome

The series is sold as framed sets and single prints through the Etsy shop.

Two landscape framed prints reading start with Bismillah and end with Alhamdulillah — A landscape pair for the kitchen or dining room.

Wall art print series shown framed, with calligraphy centred and small translations set beneath — Single prints with the translation set small beneath the script.

Three oak frames stacked, the top one reading Is not Allah sufficient for His servant, Quran 39:37 — Is not Allah sufficient for His servant? In oak.

The same calligraphy in a black frame, photographed on a beige scarf — The same piece in black.

Three white frames reading Sabr, Shukr and Salam in brush calligraphy with short translations — Sabr, Shukr, Salam: three words, three frames.

Three black-framed prints on white: Muhammad, Ayat al Kursi and Allah, each on a soft gold and grey watercolour ground

Two white-framed children's prints: a crescent moon and star on a night sky for the sleeping dua, and a sun over clouds for the waking dua — The children's pair: the sleeping dua and the waking dua.

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