Tashkeel is pleased to announce the five UAE-based visual artists selected for the 2024 Critical Practice Programme (CPP). Over the course of a comprehensive one-year program, this cohort will receive...
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The Emirati Table: Etiquette, Sharing and the Objects That Shape a Meal
An Emirati meal is about generosity before it is about food: the welcome, the shared platter, the right hand, coffee and dates, incense at the...
How to Set a Ramadan Iftar Table in the UAE: A Step-by-Step Guide
The iftar table is the most important table of the year. A practical, step-by-step guide to setting it in the UAE: the order of breaking...
Silkscreen, Archival Matte or Cotton Rag? How to Choose, Frame and Care for Art Prints in the UAE
Not all posters are the same. A practical guide to the three main print types at the Tashkeel shop, silkscreen, archival matte digital and HahnemΓΌhle...
Dubai Wall Art: Prints and Photographs of the City
Prints and photographs that picture Dubai, from Jassim Al Awadhi's Dubai Air series to Jyo John Mulloor's Dubai Snow, with advice on choosing size, paper...
Corporate Gifts from the UAE: Locally Designed Gifts for Clients and Teams
Corporate gift ideas designed in the UAE, from team gifts under AED 160 (playing cards, notebooks, bilingual desk signs) to client gifts such as finyal...
Made From the Ground Beneath Dubai: The Story of Our Dubai-Clay Cortado and Finyal Cups
Tasmeem Tashkeel's Cortado Cups and Finyal Cups are shaped by hand at Tashkeel from natural clay extracted from the Dubai landscape. Why leave the outside...
What Does It Say? A Translation Guide to Arabic Calligraphy and Typography Posters
Arabic letters are beautiful even if you cannot read them, but knowing what a work says changes how you live with it. How Arabic calligraphy...
Checkmate, the Emirati Way: How the Falcon, Oryx, Palm and Watchtower Took Over the Chessboard
Chess reached Europe through the Arab and Persian courts, so it is fitting that a chess set can speak Emirati. In the Chess Briefcase by...
The Ghaf Tree in Emirati Design: From National Tree to Your Table
The Ghaf is the national tree of the UAE, a symbol of resilience, shelter and generosity. Discover why it matters, how Tashkeel and Tasmeem Tashkeel...
The Gerbou Collection: A Guide to Emirati Tableware, Travel Pieces and Gifts
The Gerbou collection brings the design language of Dubai's award-winning Emirati restaurant into the home: ghaf-inspired ceramics, Arabic coffee cups, tea sets, travel bags and...
The King and Queen of Hearts: How Playing Cards Travelled From the Islamic World to Our Walls
Playing cards are thought to have reached Europe through the Islamic world, via Mamluk decks with suits of cups, coins, swords and polo sticks. Tasmeem...
Buying Arabic Calligraphy Art for Your Home: Prints, Works on Paper and What to Check
How to choose Arabic calligraphy for your home: understanding the text, script and style, prints versus works on paper, sizes, prices and a checklist before...
Al Wissam Script: Wissam Shawkat's Arabic Calligraphy
Wissam Shawkat has developed the Al Wissam script by hand for more than twenty years, starting from classical scripts and logo design. Here is what...
How to Decorate a Room With Posters: A Room-by-Room Guide (With Heights, Sizes and Layouts)
Posters are the fastest way to change a room. How high to hang them, which size suits which wall, how to plan a gallery wall,...
Kufic, Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani: A Beginner's Guide to Arabic Calligraphy Scripts (and How to Recognise Them on the Wall)
Arabic calligraphy is not one style but a family of scripts, each with its own geometry, history and mood. Learn to tell Kufic from Naskh,...
What Is Tasmeem Tashkeel? Inside the UAE Art and Design Collective
Tasmeem Tashkeel is the art and design collective of Tashkeel in Dubai. It creates bespoke furniture, carpets, artworks, tableware and gifts rooted in Emirati heritage,...
Sadu, Khoos and Mandoos: Emirati Heritage Motifs in Contemporary Furniture
Sadu weaving, khoos palm-frond mats and the mandoos chest are three of the UAE's most recognisable heritage forms. This guide explains what each one is...
Gerbou Dubai: The Story Behind the Name, the Building and the Design
Gerbou is an Emirati-inspired restaurant in Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, created by Tashkeel and Atelier House Hospitality inside a restored 1987 building. Its name means...
What Is Tashkeel? Dubai's Art and Design Hub, Explained
Tashkeel is a Dubai art and design organisation founded in 2008 by Her Highness Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum. Learn what Tashkeel does, where it is,...
AI Art From the UAE: How Artists at Tashkeel Use Artificial Intelligence (and Where the Human Hand Still Matters)
Tashkeel's AI Prints collection brings together artists who use artificial intelligence as a tool: the artist group Illal, Khalid Al Astad, Huda Al Aithan and...
Five Voices That Shaped Arab Music: Mouza Al Hamrani's Posters of Umm Kulthum, Fairuz, Abdel Halim, Warda and Talal Maddah
Emirati illustrator Mouza Al Hamrani turns five legends of Arab music, Umm Kulthum, Fairuz, Abdel Halim Hafez, Warda Al-Jazairia and Talal Maddah, into bold pop-art...
Tanween by Tashkeel 2025 | Unveiling the Twelfth Edition
Tashkeel proudly presents the 2025 cohort for the twelfth edition of Tanween by Tashkeel. Following a year of rigorous experimentation and local collaboration, seven UAE-based...
Familiar Images, Re-imagined: Jyo John Mulloor's Digital Art
Dubai under snow, Barbie on the Metro, an Arab Mona Lisa: Jyo John Mulloor's digital prints take images everyone knows and change one thing about...
Critical Practice Programme 2024: Meet the Selected Artists
Tashkeel is pleased to announce the five UAE-based visual artists selected for the 2024 Critical Practice Programme (CPP). Over the course of a comprehensive one-year...
Tanween by Tashkeel 2024 | Sustainable UAE Design Showcase
Tashkeel proudly presents the 2024 cohort of Tanween by Tashkeel, marking its largest edition to date. Following an 11-month collaboration with engineers and scientists, six...
Meet the 2023 Cohort of Tanween by Tashkeel Design Programme
Tashkeel is proud to announce the five UAE-based designers selected for the tenth edition of Tanween by Tashkeel. Focused entirely on sustainability, the 2023 cohort...
Introducing the 2023 Cohort for Tashkeel's Critical Practice Programme
Tashkeel is delighted to introduce the four talented UAE-based artists chosen for the eighth edition of the Critical Practice Programme (CPP). Spanning interactive digital media,...
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Tanween by Tashkeel
The collection features bespoke, locally manufactured contemporary products that merge the UAE's traditional crafts and regional materials.
