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Farzan Kermaninejad
Graphic Designer, Calligraphr, Researcher
• I am an Iranian Art Director and Graphic Designer, currently dividing my time between designing and research on graphic design and calligraphy. I have done my Master's degree in Graphic Design...
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Navid Ghaem Maghami
>Graphic Designer/Art Director. >MFA in Design from CCA (California College of the arts) Based in San Francisco Bay Area.
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Parisa Tashakori
PARISA TASHAKORI Born in 1973 Tehran, Iran MA in Graphic Design Member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society (IGDS) Teaching in some Universities Art director of some International Advertising...
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Anna Christina
romantic anarchy
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Huda Shaath
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Article: Report Edo Smitshuijzen, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
A turning point for Arabic typography and design
Report on the Khatt Kufi & Kaffiya symposium and the Typographic Matchmaking project presentations.
The Typographic Matchmaking project ( Arabic fonts and book ), the Khatt online community (www.khtt.net), the Khatt Kufi and Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture , and the El Hema exhibition...
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ahmed saad
Arabic Graffiti Artist
Making the Graffiti and other Urban Arts with touch of Oriental flavor..
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Event: AMAL 007
From The Middle East with Love
22Oct 200731Oct 2007A special program on video art form the Middle East curated by Khaled Ramadan. Presented by the lecture "Independent video-making in the Middle East " by Khaled D. Ramadan, followed by a...
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Ghinwa Yassine
أنا نقطة
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Maya Chami
Maya Chami was born in Beirut.
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Event: TENT.
Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!
20Sep 2007Is Dutch Design an international language, or should it be more representative of our cosmopolitan society? An evening on cross-cultural initiatives such as 'el Hema' (Mediamatic) , 'Moslima Fashion'...
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Aida Eltorie
Managing Director of Finding Projects Association
Aida Eltorie, is an independent curator and director to Finding Projects Association (Florence). Since 2012, Eltorie launched the new branding for 6 Contemporary Arts gallery (Cairo) and had been...
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Caracalla Dance Theater
The Lebanese Abdel-Halim Caracalla has tried to create a new language in dance with a style based on the amalgamation of the Western and Oriental, combining yesterday's heritage with today's...
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reem falaknaz
type stalker
type stalker & stalked by type
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A typographic matchmaking project for the 16th…
Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some reason Winsoft seems to believe that the Arabic typography never...
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing…
24Aug 2007Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak, Pascal Zoghbi, Lucas de Groot, and Lara Assouad Khoury.
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Google in Arabia: Introducing the Khatt Network…
24Aug 2007Movable type was the the new media of the 15th century. In Europe many rulers felt threatened by it, and they were right. They did not stop it though. They just tried to censor on the content level.
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Cultural Survival Kits and Other Practical Ideas
24Aug 2007Cultural survival kits… it would be real nice if we had ready-made ones to give out at the door with simple instruction manuals. Fortunately such things do not exist. Maybe survival manuals are not...
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Pink Sushi
New fashion, a colorful mix of Emirati visual icons.
Attempting to express oneself is of course a universal human endeavor. In rather conservative social environments this natural tendency has a special urgency.
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Timbuktu
a treasure chamber of Arabic manuscripts
The city Timbuktu in the African state of Mali stands for the end of the civilized world. Much of that is still true, the city is difficult to reach and consist merely of a large collection of low...
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Typographic Landscapes of the Arab World
24Aug 2007Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab world, through the analysis of selected current practices in Arabic type design, corporate identities
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Writing From The Margins
24Aug 2007Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Enchanted Canary*
24Aug 2007'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 will laugh at me. I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was...