- 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…
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…
- event: khatt kufi & kaffiya24 Aug 2007
16:10
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak,…
- gallery- 3 reactions
The Kitabat conference
The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.
Dubai, 5 - 8 April 2006 Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in partnership with…
Symposium Program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and…
- Project:
HudaA 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…
- 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…
Design talk & latest news
Articles on typography and visual communication in the Middle East
The Khatt Network for Arabic Typography is a project of the Khatt Foundation, designed as a platform for discussing issues…
- 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 cosmopolitan society? An evening on…