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HudaTypographic Matchmaking in the City
Propositions for a Pluralist Public Space
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Also available at design bookstores in Europe and the US, at all Virgin Bookstores in the Middle East, and at Kinokunya Dubai.
Edited by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
Khatt Books, Amsterdam 2010
Highly illustrated 396 pages in color
Languages: Dutch, English, Arabic
Size: 21 cm x 28 cm
Soft cover with flaps
The Typographic Matchmaking in the City project is a design research project investigating new approaches for bilingual lettering and poetic narrative for public space. The project have proven to be highly inspirational for the participating designers; it brought together designers from different cultural backgrounds to intensely collaborate, over a period of 2 years, on creating coherent products with groundbreaking resul...
