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News Archive 2007

News related to the interests if the Khatt design community posted in 2007

 

  • Project

    A turning point for Arabic typography and design

    Report on the Khatt Kufi & Kaffiya symposium and the Typographic Matchmaking project presentations.

    Edo Smitshuijzen, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    The Typographic Matchmaking project ( Arabic fonts and book ), the Khatt online community (www.khtt.net), the Khatt Kufi and Kaffiya ...

  • event: Art Lounge, Beirut

    Khatt Fonts

    Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut

    15 Dec 2007 – 22 Dec 2007

    19:30

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares – Please join us in Beirut for the opening, if you can. Arabic type, book launch and art ...

  • Amsterdam, Stichting Mediamatic

    New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers and captains of industry

    El-HEMA Exhibition at Mediamatic

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Good graphic design still creates a very powerful image. Sometimes even up to a level that it may mislead and subsequently embarrass ...

  • Article

    Art museum projects in the Middle East

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated)

  • event

    Another Arabic Cliche Exhibition

    The Spirit & Life exhibition, Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection

    14 Jul 2007 – 31 Aug 2007

    10:00

    Edo Smitshuijzen – Location: Ismaili Centre, London. Until 31 August 2007. The Khatt Foundation is not alone in ...

  • Arabic vintage cassettes

    interesting calligraphy on old cassettes!

    Omar Al-Zo'bi –

    Back when people seriously cared about content rather than shape, about the heart rather than the peel, about the insides rather than ...

  • event

    Mehdi Saeedi won “Grand Prize: US$10,000” at the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007.

  • Article

    Sanaa Fashion Fusion

    mixing tradition and globart street trends

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Sanaa's streets are filled with very tasteful examples of a Arabic/western fashion fusion

    1 comment

  • book

    Arabic in the Barnbrook Bible

    a graphic manifesto and autobiography

    "Jonathan Barnbrook’s new book, Barnbrook Bible, ranks amongst the most ambitious personal projects undertaken by any graphic ...

    1 comment

  • Arabic in its many guises

    Christine Eid

  • event

    In defence of a remarkable exhibition

    The Spirit & Life exhibition

    Dr Geoffrey Roper – It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the ...

    1 comment

  • event: Rotterdam, TENT.

    Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!

    Just how 'Dutch' is Dutch design?

    20 Sep 2007

    20:00

    Is Dutch Design an international language, or should it be more representative of our ...

  • Saudi Visual Communication

    Hani Alireza –

    There are certain things about Saudi Arabia that really make it seem out of this world. To list the obvious: woman are not allowed to ...

  • Book

    talib type

    tbp [to be published] April 08

    Raymond Prucher –

    I for one am weary of the East and West being presented within the frame of what we can learn from one another, sitting at a table and ...

  • event: Santiago De Compostela, AMAL 007

    From The Middle East with Love

    AMAL 007, The Arab Film Festival

    22 Oct 2007 – 31 Oct 2007

    20:00

    Khaled Ramadan – A special program on video art form the Middle East curated by Khaled Ramadan. Presented by the ...

  • Publication

    Shakloh magazine

    Online Visual PDF Magazine For Arab Artists

    Mohammed Fahmy –

    SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, ...

    2 comments

  • review

    A typographic matchmaking project for the 16th century: the Civilité of Granjon and the Naskh of Winsoft.

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some ...

    10 comments

  • article

    Arabic geometry in contemporary architecture

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Traditionally, geometric decorations play an important role in Arabic visual culture and Islamic art. Buildings often carry geometric ...

  • Generating Arabic Fonts

    Pascal Zoghbi - 29letters –

    Developing and generating Arabic fonts is not as easy and straightforward as for Latin fonts.This article will cover Encoding, Glyph and ...

  • The Big Kashida Secret

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    The great masters of Arabic calligraphy loved to show their skills but they did not put much of their knowledge on paper for others to ...