- Project, Font Family:
HudaBigVesta 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.
- Project, Font Family:
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
This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Lucas de Groot, and the renown Arab calligrapher and…
- event: Amsterdam, Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA Project
El HEMA is a non-commercial cultural project by the Mediamatic Foundation in Amsterdam.
24 Aug 2007 6 Jan 2008
17:00
What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Palestinian…
- Book:
Typographic Matchmaking
This book is out of print
Copyright©2007. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares Published by BIS Publishers, Amsterdam. 2007 ISBN 978-90-6369-124-0 To Order it…
- event: khatt kufi & kaffiya24 Aug 2007
16:10
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak,…
WaelLebanese Vernacular Type
Vernacular bookmarks
When type mixes with art, superstitions, formalities, religious affiliations and social behaviour the result is a vernacular way of…
Khatt projects
We live to work!
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
EdoNew 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…
Nadine
In early 2004, I was asked by the American University of Beirut to design an Arabic companion to the typeface Frutiger that they had…