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Calligraphy in Everyday Life
Covers of Ettela´at Monthly
Business Cards
Tehran’s Ferdowsi Avenue
Iranian SMS Marketing
Love Postcards from 1912
Rooftops of Tehran
Covers for “Ketabe Jom’e”
Graffiti Mine
Pen Case with Scenes from the “Haft Paykar”

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Pre-revolution Soundtrack Album Covers

This is a collection of album cover art for the soundtracks of pre-revolutionary movies made in Iran in the late 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes designs for the soundtracks of art-house movies as well as commercial blockbusters.

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Quran over an Entrance to a Zoorkhaneh

Protective Sacred Words

Placing Islamic inscriptions (mostly words from Quran) over the entrances to the houses, business places, or public buildings used to be common in the past. It seems placing these words on the entrances has its roots in an older tradition that sees a supernatural power in words.

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