Organisation
The Khatt Foundation is a cultural foundation dedicated to advancing Arabic typography and design in the Arab World and the Middle East. Building cross-cultural creative networks is seen as an important instrument to this end.
The Khatt Foundation has developed a network of design specialist working on research projects and programs that focus on contemporary design in the Middle East. It aims to bring awareness of the vital role that design can play in building a sustainable environment, through conferences, forums and publications. It strives to stimulate the creation of socially relevant products and artifacts that are designed and produced regionally to the highest professional standards.
Contact information / hard facts
Van Tuyll Van Serooskerkenweg 1421076 JT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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phone +31(0)20-676 62 69
fax +31(0)20-676 62 69
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event: Dubai, American University in Dubai
The Kitabat conference
The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.
5 Apr 2006 – 8 Apr 2006
18:00
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event: Amsterdam, Dubai, Paris, Beirut
Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0
1 Feb 2009 – 31 Dec 2010
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Khatt Font Project: Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project
Building cultural bridges with typeface design
10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts
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Book: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Typographic Matchmaking
This book is now available for ordering online from Nijhof & Lee and BIS Publishers.
Copyright©2007. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares Published by BIS Publishers, Amsterdam. 2007 ISBN 978-90-6369-124-0 As the world moves ...
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event: Art Lounge, Beirut
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Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut
15 Dec 2007 – 22 Dec 2007
19:30
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conference
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The Khatt Foundation Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
24 Aug 2007
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Khatt and Mediamatic will host a full day of lectures, presentations and celebration of new ...
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Project, Font Family: Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
Fresco Arabic: western Latin meets western Kufi.
New Arabic companion to the Fresco font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown Ducth type designer, Fred Smeijers, and the Arab type designer Lara Assouad-Khoury
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Project, Font Family: Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
Sada echoing Seria: two scripts in one family
New Arabic companion to the Seria font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Martin Majoor, and the Arab type designer Pascal Zoghbi.
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Project, Font Family: Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
Fedra Arabic: balancing legibility with simplicity.
New Arabic companion to the Fedra font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown type designer, Peter Bilak, and the Arab type designer Tarek Atrissi.
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Project, Font Family: Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
BigVesta Arabic: legibility in monumental proportions
New Arabic companion to the BigVesta font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Gerard Unger, and the renown Arab type designer Nadine Chahine.
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Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
TheMix Arabic: balancing handwritten and geometrically constructed letterforms.
This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Lucas de Groot, and the renown Arab calligrapher and designer, ...
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event: Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
Khattography : Contemporary Arabic typography
1st Arabic typography workshop at Tashkeel, Dubai
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