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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.

 
  • 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 Tommaso Marinetti's Ottoman legacy in…

  • event

    Grand Café Mediterranée

    Cultural event endorsed by the Khatt Foundation

    A surprising programme on cultural exchange with the Middle East and North Africa. Here's an Impression of the event to watch on…

  • Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

    The Khatt Foundation on Al Jazeera English

    on ARTSWORLD programme's 7th and last episode

    ARTSWORLD is half hour weekly programme broadcast on Al Jazeera English that includes four 5-minute inserts each week from around the world.

  • event: 2 reactions

    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 the Arab world, and put the topic in…

  • Khatt Font Project: 7 reactions

    The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project

    Building cultural bridges with typeface design

    10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts

  • 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 Arabic cultural expression, at the…

  • Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

    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…

  • event: 19 reactions

    Project Mulsaq, competition

    The Khatt Design Collection of Wall Stickers

    Reinvent our space, bring the Middle East home The Khatt Design Collection Competition, a Limited Edition of Wall Stickers by…

  • Khatt Project: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

    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…

  • event: Amsterdam, Dubai, Paris, Beirut11 reactions
    1
    Feb
    2009
    31
    Dec
    2010

    The Khatt Foundation , curated by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, is launching the Typographic Matchmaking sequel — Typographic…

  • 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 project at the XIN ICOGRADA Bejing 09…

  • Project: Edo Smitshuijzen, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

    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…

  • event: Dubai, American University in Dubai3 reactions

    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 partnership with the Khatt Foundation (Center…

  • event: New York, TCD5 reactions

    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 achievement! The Fresco Arabic Font…

  • 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 – including Traffic and 50ºC – and…

  • We are pleased to announce that the 'El HEMA' exhibition was awarded the Best Dutch Design Awards 2007 in the visual identity…

  • 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 exhibition. 15 Lebanese designers and…