I lost the link to this site. I ended up spending nearly half an hour trawling Google Images until I found an image that was familiar! Then I was back on the portfolio site of Mouneer Al-Shaárani. He’s got some wonderful examples of quite remarkable calligraphy on there — I just wish I knew what they meant. Take the three examples below. It amazes me they can say anything at all and I wonder whether they’re as hard to read as those psychedelic posters from the sixties.

I have a strong attraction to calligraphy in general, but I am particularly fascinated by the possibilities afforded by arabic and persian scripts. I’ve seen many examples of arabic scripts in books, on buildings and posters, but I first came across anthropomorphic and zoomorphic calligraphy on this post on BibliOdyssey. Amazing stuff: