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Natalie Houston
Natalie Amy Margaret Houston was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended the then-named Natal Technikon. She graduated with a Diploma in Marketing and Sales Management in 1989, after which she was awarded an 18-month scholarship by the German Government to work and gain practical experience in that country. While in Germany she worked for Volkswagen and Audi, in their Marketing and Strategic Planning departments respectively. She returned to Germany from South Africa to study Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Dusseldorf. She completed a Bachelors and Masters degree in graphic design. Natalie lectured at the Durban University of Technology in the Faculty of Arts, in the Department of Graphic Design for nine years. In 2013 she joined the University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia, as a lecturer in Graphic Design. In 2015, she started pursuing a PhD in the Department of Social Sciences, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She posted several Kufi style Arabic typefaces designed by her students in 2015 at the University of Dammam, College of Design for Girls. These include fonts by Arwa Alshammari (Moderfla), Najebah Alhashim (Handasah), Raghda Almakami (Zawiya), Ghadeer Haddad (Bubble: a circle-based font), Lina (Tammuz), Sukaina Albasha (Lightning), Fatima AlMoaili (MOQ'LA), Nora Alshammari (ZBRQAN), and Layla Alkhalifah (Thakerah). Her students jointly designed the Kufic Arabic typefaces Asia (2014), Ragda (2015, based on Avenir), Sumaya (2015), Layla (2015, based on Helvetica), and Lojain (2015). |
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file name: Arwa Alshammari Moderfla 2015
file name: Arwa Alshammari Moderfla 2015b
file name: Fatima Al Moaili Moqla 2015b
file name: Ghadeer Haddad Bubble 2015
file name: Ghadeer Haddad Bubble 2015b
file name: Layla Alkhalifah Thakerah 2015a
file name: Layla Alkhalifah Thakerah 2015b
file name: Lina Tammuz 2015
file name: Lina Tammuz 2015b
file name: Lina Tammuz 2015c
file name: Lina Tammuz 2015d
file name: Najebah Alhashim Handasah 2015
file name: Najebah Alhashim Handasah 2015b
file name: Natalie Houston Class Asia Typeface 2014
file name: Natalie Houston Class Layla Typeface 2015
file name: Natalie Houston Class Lojain Typeface 2015
file name: Natalie Houston Class Lojain Typeface 2015b
file name: Natalie Houston Class Sumaya Typeface 2015
file name: Natalie Houston Class Ragda Typeface 2015
file name: Nora Alshammari Zbrqan 2015
file name: Nora Alshammari Zbrqan 2015b
file name: Raghda Almakami Zawiya 2015
file name: Sukaina Albasha Lightning 2015
file name: Sukaina Albasha Lightning 2015b
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