Islamic Patterns

Islamic geometric patterns were one of the main methods for the Islamic artists and painters to convey their art for the reason that Islamic principles forbid drawings of the living creatures for that reason the Islamic artists used mathematics and geometry to create these defined, précised and detailed patterns which most of the time represented plants, flowers and leaves, in addition to their precision Islamic patterns embody the relation between one and infinity which is what the Islam is based on the infinity of God. The Islamic artists recognized that by using mathematics and geometry it will be easy to repeat one motif of any shape over a large area, like walls in castles and mosques, at this point we could notice the first and most obvious connection between the geometric Islamic patterns and computer compatible design program, which is the simplicity of accomplishing many different and complex patterns, through these design programs, by repeating simple design. Second, computer design programs are the easiest technique to create such defined and précised geometric patterns without the need for using any complicated mathematical calculations or any measurement tools, used for drawing defined shapes like the star.

Digital manifesto of geometric Islamic Patterns

I was fascinated by Islamic patterns from the first time I saw them, long time ago, when I first visited Istanbul for a vacation in 1997. Part of our trip was to see historical places such as The Topkapi Palace, Aya Sophia and The blue Mosque. Since that time I was wondering why we became careless about our history? And why we are always trying to westernize every aspect of our life? Is it because now days we live in globalized era and the fact that the world seems like small place? Or maybe because we think that every modern style and design must be from the western world.

However being modern does not mean trying to abandon own roots and history and look for every thing new and recent. As Herbert...