Last week we learned about Albanian type, and today we look at Armenian type. Mariya Stepanyan’s father, Ashot Stepanyan, was an artist and industrial designer in Yerevan, Armenia, from the early to late ’70s. At the time there was a scarcity of good art and design books in local stores. “Luckily, one of his good friends was working at a book shop in the city center and would call my father if there was a new shipment of fine art or design books,” she says. “This particular f
Last week we learned about Albanian type, and today we look at Armenian type. Mariya Stepanyan’s father, Ashot Stepanyan, was an artist and industrial designer in Yerevan, Armenia, from the early to late ’70s. At the time there was a scarcity of good art and design books in local stores. “Luckily, one of his good friends was working at a book shop in the city center and would call my father if there was a new shipment of fine art or design books,” she says. “This particular f
Last week we learned about Albanian type, and today we look at Armenian type. Mariya Stepanyan’s father, Ashot Stepanyan, was an artist and industrial designer in Yerevan, Armenia, from the early to late ’70s. At the time there was a scarcity of good art and design books in local stores. “Luckily, one of his good friends was working at a book shop in the city center and would call my father if there was a new shipment of fine art or design books,” she says. “This particular f
Last week we learned about Albanian type, and today we look at Armenian type. Mariya Stepanyan’s father, Ashot Stepanyan, was an artist and industrial designer in Yerevan, Armenia, from the early to late ’70s. At the time there was a scarcity of good art and design books in local stores. “Luckily, one of his good friends was working at a book shop in the city center and would call my father if there was a new shipment of fine art or design books,” she says. “This particular f
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Last week we learned about Albanian type, and today we look at Armenian type. Mariya Stepanyan’s father, Ashot Stepanyan, was an artist and industrial designer in Yerevan, Armenia, from the early to late ’70s. At the time there was a scarcity of good art and design books in local stores. “Luckily, one of his good friends was working at a book shop in the city center and would call my father if there was a new shipment of fine art or design books,” she says. “This particular f
FOBO: picture Page 10: Armenian
Five Armenian religious manuscripts traveled this week from Racine to Boston, where they are being donated to the Armenian Library and Museum of America. What makes these lengthy, large-format books
Armenians have a long and exceptionally rich literary tradition. Ancient scripts dating back to millennia before the start of the Common Era are found in abundance on the Armenian plateau. Among numerous scripts and hieroglyphs written in tongs long lost, are the Urartian hieroglyphs that have yet to be deciphered by modern scholars. Many Armenian […]
