Typographic Matchmaking workshop -
Workshop and working sessions with the designers and khatt members.
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak, Pascal Zoghbi, Lucas de Groot, and Lara Assouad Khoury.
Syrian Lingerie -
Image from the publication “The secret Life of Syrian lingerie: Intimacy and Design”. This book will be published by the book will be published by Chronicle Books in autumn 2008. Photo by Omar al-Moutem.We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA)
Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp.
We'll have lunch at the 8th floor restaurant with an amazing view over Amsterdam.
At 17:00 we'll wrap up and move to the next-door PostCS building where we'll celebrate the opening of El HEMA at Mediamatic!
Cultural survival kits… it would be real nice if we had ready-made ones to give out at the door with simple instruction manuals....
Movable type was the the new media of the 15th century. In Europe many rulers felt threatened by it, and they were right.
They did...
The National Museum of Yemen in the capital city of Sana’a was neglected when I arrived in 1998. The buildings needed repairs all...
The Arab street – its vibrancy, innovativeness, traditions of design and contemporary expression – has been obscured by geopolitical...
Talk and short video screening by Khaled D. Ramadan.
Planet of the Arabs by video maker Jacki Salloum.
Politics, in the form of contemporary cultural resistance projects and in the history of Arab political posters, will be the subject of...
The Dutch government stimulates contact between groups of different backgrounds by establishing a House for Cultural Dialogue in the...
Peter Bilak will speak about methodologies of approaching unfamiliar areas of work.
The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of technology, imagery and design. The Arabs...
For nearly twenty years, Brody Neuenschwander has worked with the British film maker Peter Greenaway to produce calligraphy for films,...
'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?'
'I will tell you,' answered Désiré, 'though most likely you...
Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From...
The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly inspired by recent technology...
Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab world, through the analysis of selected...
As the world moves forward towards a more international (design) society, the need for fonts that can support multi-scripts becomes ...
What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Palestinian scarfs...
