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event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Peter Bilak will speak about methodologies of approaching unfamiliar areas of work.
Similarities and differences of dance and type design will be discussed. Dance performances exist only in it's original, raw form, and cannot be reproduced. Typography, on the other hand, needs to be reproduced in order to be defined as typography.
Image from the publication “The secret Life of Syrian lingerie: Intimacy and Design”. This book will be published by the book will be published by Chronicle Books in autumn 2008. Photo by Omar al-Moutem.
We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA)
Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp.
We'll have lunch at the 8th floor restaurant with an amazing view over Amsterdam.
At 17:00 we'll wrap up and move to the next-door PostCS building where we'll celebrate the opening of El HEMA at Mediamatic!
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
10:10
Cultural survival kits… it would be real nice if we had ready-made ones to give out at the ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
10:30
Movable type was the the new media of the 15th century. In Europe many rulers felt threatened by ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
10:50
The National Museum of Yemen in the capital city of Sana’a was neglected when I arrived in ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Arab street – its vibrancy, innovativeness, traditions of design and contemporary ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Talk and short video screening by Khaled D. Ramadan. Planet of the Arabs by video maker Jacki ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
12:00
Politics, in the form of contemporary cultural resistance projects and in the history of Arab ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
13:10
The Dutch government stimulates contact between groups of different backgrounds by establishing ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
13:50
The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
14:20
For nearly twenty years, Brody Neuenschwander has worked with the British film maker Peter ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
14:40
'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?' 'I will tell you,' ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
15:20
The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
15:40
Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab ...
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
16:10
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard ...
Book: khatt kufi & kaffiya
As the world moves forward towards a more international (design) society, the need for fonts that can support multi-scripts becomes ...
event: Amsterdam, Stichting Mediamatic
17:00
What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high ...
conference program
The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going ...
