El Hema logos (Left: new logo, designed by Wael Morcos. Right: old logo, designed by Tarek Atrissi in collaboration with Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares. Arabic font used as basis for the logo is TheMix Arabic, designed by Lucas de Groot and Mouneer Al-Shaarani).
Your browser doesn't seem to support JavaScript, or it is turned off.
-
event:
Amsterdam,
Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA Project
El HEMA is a non-commercial cultural project by the Mediamatic Foundation in Amsterdam.
24 Aug 07 17:00 > 6 Jan 08
What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Palestinian scarfs...
-
event:
khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing Dual-Script Fonts
24 Aug 07 16:10
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak,...
Khatt projects
We live to work!
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers and captains of industry
El-HEMA Exhibition at Mediamatic
Good graphic design still creates a very powerful image. Sometimes even up to a level that it may mislead and subsequently embarrass ...-
event:
Amsterdam,
Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA Project
El HEMA is a non-commercial cultural project by the Mediamatic Foundation in Amsterdam.
24 Aug 07 17:00 > 6 Jan 08
What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Palestinian scarfs...
-
event:
El Hema Lecture at NDU
- Book:
Typographic Matchmaking
This book is now available for ordering online from Nijhof & Lee and BIS Publishers.
As the world moves forward towards a more international (design) society, the need for fonts that can support multi-scripts becomes ... Lebanese Vernacular Type
Vernacular bookmarks
When type mixes with art, superstitions, formalities, religious affiliations and social behaviour the result is a vernacular way of ...Design talk & latest news
Articles on typography and visual communication in the Middle East
The Khatt Network for Arabic Typography is a project of the Khatt Foundation, designed as a platform for discussing issues pertaining to ...