Khatt projects
We live to work!
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
Next to this community website, we do projects in the arab world and beyond.
Delegate (Erik Brandt from VCU Qatar) at the special student typographic posters exhibition, for the Kitabat Conference
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event
Orientalia : Lead, Light and Letters
Exhibition on Arabo-Dutch Type Design from the 17th-21st Century.
A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and understanding between the West and ...
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Project
A 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 Kaffiya ...
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event: Dubai, American University in Dubai
The Kitabat conference
The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.
5 Apr 2006 – 8 Apr 2006
18:00
Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in ...
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event: Dubai, Traffic
Project Mulsaq, Dubai exhibition
The first Khatt Design Collection of Wall Stickers
13 Nov 2008 – 5 Dec 2008
The limited edition collection is available for sale in main major design outlets in the UAE – ...
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event: New York, TCD
Fresco Arabic Wins TCD2 2008 Award
For excellence in Typeface Design
29 Jul 2008 – 22 Aug 2008
18:00
Congratulations to our Khatt members Lara Assouad-Khoury and Fred Smeijers for their ...
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Khatt Project
Typographic Matchmaking fonts in public spaces
The BigVesta Arabic font used in Guggenheim exhibition design
the Vesta and BigVesta Arabic fonts are used on large scale environmental graphics and lettering for the Saadiyat Island Cultural ...
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event: Amsterdam, Dubai, Paris, Beirut
Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0
1 Feb 2009 – 31 Dec 2010
The Khatt Foundation , curated by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, is launching the Typographic ...
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Khatt Font Project: Amsterdam, The Khatt Foundation
The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project
Building cultural bridges with typeface design
10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts
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conference
khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Khatt Foundation Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
24 Aug 2007
09:00
Khatt and Mediamatic will host a full day of lectures, presentations and celebration of new ...
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Project Mulsaq, competition
The Khatt Design Collection of Wall Stickers
Reinvent our space, bring the Middle East home The Khatt Design Collection Competition, a ...
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El HEMA got awarded the Dutch Design Prize!
We are pleased to announce that the 'El HEMA' exhibition was awarded the Best Dutch Design Awards 2007 in the visual identity category, ...
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event: Art Lounge, Beirut
Khatt Fonts
Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut
15 Dec 2007 – 22 Dec 2007
19:30
Please join us in Beirut for the opening, if you can. Arabic type, book launch and art ...