A Language Of Image: From Manuscripts To Meta-Algorithms

From Islamic manuscripts to Blender renders, the image of the Arabic language has always been built from overlapping histories and references. The designers pushing it forward today are proving that visual history is most useful when it becomes a tool for invention rather than nostalgia, and that the archive is not a repository of finished answers

Amine Houari and The Making of a City

Photographer Amine Houari has spent three years documenting the brutal urban transformation of Tangier, a city deconstructed and reinvented almost to the point of disappearance

John Lobb and the Enduring Language of Good Shoes

In an era obsessed with what can be seen, the finest expressions of style are often found at ground level

AAU Anastas Bring the Art and Politics of Building with Stone to ICD Brookfield Place Dubai

Aga Khan Award–winning architects Elias and Yousef Anastas make the case that what we build with and how we extract it, is never just a material question

SLOP IS THAT DEEP

Do you sense that you live in a world that literally makes no fucking sense?

What to Gift Your Loved Ones This Eid?

ICON MENA’s annual Eid al-Fitr gift guide

Demna is Putting the Gucciness Back in Gucci for His Debut AW26 Collection

“Gucci is culture. It is a way of thinking and a way of being."