News Archive 2009
News related to the interests if the Khatt design community posted in 2009
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event: Beijing
Typographic Matchmaking at ICOGRADA Beijing 09
Typographic Design in Networked Societies
28 Oct 2009
10:45
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares will be presenting the Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0 ...
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Font Design consultancy Dalton Maag in Cairo
Font design consultancy Dalton Maag is opening an office in the Egyptian capital Cairo, which it hopes will position the company as an ...
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The trend of Arabic calligraphy/typography in fashion is growing
A new crop of designers from the region and abroad are pushing the envelope by employing Arabic calligraphy in innovative ways. Read ...
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Palestine, graffiti as peaceful act of resistance
reportage from the West Bank
Just back from a trip in the West Bank, where the wall became a sad occasion of making graphics...
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event: Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
Beyond Boundaries
Islamic Art Across Cultures
1 Dec 2008 – 22 Feb 2009
This exhibition offers the opportunity to look at art across space and through time in the ...
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Book
Extraordinary Women
from the Muslim World
Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World tells the stories of the thirteen women who overcame adversity to make their unique ...
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event: New York, Performa Hub
Art Must Move
PERFORMA teams up with Khatt Foundation
1 Nov 2009 – 22 Nov 2009
Inspired by the Futurists’ approach to typography and graphic design as well as Filippo ...
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Publication
Oasis Magazine
The first English Arts and Culture Magazine from Saudi Arabia
Oasis Magazine aims to be a voice and representative of both Saudi and Arab culture. This Issue 9 of Oasis Magazine is of particular ...
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FontShop chooses a Khatt Foundation font as its first Arabic Release
Typographic Matchmaking V1.0, implemented in the mainstream international type market
The former Sada Font designed and developed by Pascasl Zoghbi and Martin Majoor within the framework of the Khatt Foundation's ...
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Arabic Typography as Social Campaign
Khede Kasra Campaign by the Hariri Foundation
if you can view the video here, please visit it at the link below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienYpISHLg0
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Arabesque on the Potomac
Notes on the Arab Cultural Festival in Washington DC Feb 23- Mar 15
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New Arabic multi-script font designs
Designing a well functioning multi-script font is an extensive and complex job. There are only very few design schools where one can be ...