The design strategy centres on three principles: recognition, sovereignty, and contemporary expression.
Recognition leverages the 8-pointed star's existing visibility—even in its appropriated form—as an entry point for re-education. People who encounter the pattern may sense familiarity without knowing its Palestinian origins.
Sovereignty means extracting the pattern from commodified circulation and restoring it within authentic Palestinian visual language. For this identity, the 8-pointed star was chosen precisely because of its widespread decontextualisation, making it a strategic site of reclamation, allowing the identity to restore its Palestinian authorship in a contemporary form.
Contemporary expression applies this methodology to digital-first requirements, guided by the Palestinian organiser’s vision of having a clean and striking visual language. Tatreez stitch-by-stitch detail becomes illegible at small scales, so the design distils the 8-pointed star into solid geometric forms that maintain pattern legibility across contexts, from social media icons to large-scale banners, while preserving the disciplined grid logic of tatreez construction.