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Dubai's First Gulf Art Fair
Held in Dubai in early March, the Gulf Art Fair was the first international art fair to take place in the Middle East. -
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khatt kufi & kaffiya
From Amulet to Art Nouveau
a Thousand Years of Arab-European Exchange in Printing and Book Design
24 Aug 07 13:50
The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of technology, imagery and design. The Arabs...
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Alexandria,
ACAF
No Shape Stays Innocent
Two Film Projects by Carlo Zanni
25 Dec 07 > 2 Jan 08
Multipistes a multi-stage collaborative contemporary arts project www.multipistes.org and Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)...
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International Design Forum, in Dubai
Moutamarat's first annual design forum in Dubai.
Dubai. May 27 - 29, 2007. Promoting design as a critical tool for cultural understanding and commercial excellence. -
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Rotterdam,
TENT.
Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!
Just how 'Dutch' is Dutch design?
20 Sept 07 20
Is Dutch Design an international language, or should it be more representative of our cosmopolitan society? An evening on cross-cultural...
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Pink Sushi
New fashion, a colorful mix of Emirati visual icons.
Attempting to express oneself is of course a universal human endeavor. In rather conservative social environments this natural tendency ... - review:
A typographic matchmaking project for the 16th century: the Civilité of Granjon and the Naskh of Winsoft.
Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some ... -
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Dubai,
The Third Line gallery
Life Drawing
Figurative practises by Neda Hadizadeh, Ghadah Al Kandari, Hayv Kahraman and Lamya Gargash
20 Dec 07 > 10 Jan 08
The Third Line is proud to present Life Drawing, Figurative Practises by Neda Hadizadeh, Ghadah Al Kandari, Hayv Kahraman and Lamya...
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Xanadu*
More Light Than Death Could Bear
a poetry book by Hind Shoufani
8 Sept 07 21:00
In the spirit of believing that poetry can be sound, light, texture, images- and possibly scent- xanadu* hosted a multi-faceted launch...
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Rotterdam,
TENT.
Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!
Just how 'Dutch' is Dutch design?
20 Sept 07 20
Is Dutch Design an international language, or should it be more representative of our cosmopolitan society? An evening on cross-cultural...
New 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 ...-
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Art Lounge, Beirut
Khatt Fonts
Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut
15 Dec 07 19:30 > 22 Dec 07 11:55
Please join us in Beirut for the opening, if you can.
Arabic type, book launch and art exhibition. 15 Lebanese designers and visual...
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Lady Bush in Arabia
a new cancer awareness in the region
Taken from the New York Times website. Caracalla Dance Theater
The Lebanese Abdel-Halim Caracalla has tried to create a new language in dance with a style based on the amalgamation of the Western and ...- Article:
Art museum projects in the Middle East
Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated) Blouzaat: urban art's wearable expressions
a view into the new urban art revolution in Jordan
It's always a disappointment to us art appreciators and artists when we go into stores to buy a t-shirt and find these extremely tacky, ...The new generation of Iranian graphic designers and the 5th Color
Bijan Sayfouri's speech in the opening of the 40+40 poster exhibition, castel of Trani, Italy, 2004
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Art museum projects in the Middle East
Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated) -
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Another Arabic Cliche Exhibition
The Spirit & Life exhibition, Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection
14 July 07 > 31 Aug 07
Location: Ismaili Centre, London. Until 31 August 2007.
The Khatt Foundation is not alone in its strife to present a better image of...
Arabic vintage cassettes
interesting calligraphy on old cassettes!
Back when people seriously cared about content rather than shape, about the heart rather than the peel, about the insides rather than ...-
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Mehdi Saeedi won “Grand Prize: US$10,000” at the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007.
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Sanaa Fashion Fusion
mixing tradition and globart street trends
Sanaa's streets are filled with very tasteful examples of a Arabic/western fashion fusion - 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 ... Arabic in its many guises
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In defence of a remarkable exhibition
The Spirit & Life exhibition
It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic... This weekend 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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Mehdi Saeedi won “Grand Prize: US$10,000” at the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007.
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Pillowcase "Alf leila wa leila" wins second prize
El Hema design competition
This pillowcase is the submission from Nellie Keijzer for the El Hema design competition. It's an abstract translation of the concept... Saudi Visual Communication
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
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 ... -
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Santiago De Compostela,
AMAL 007
From The Middle East with Love
AMAL 007, The Arab Film Festival
22 Oct 07 20 > 31 Oct 07 00
A special program on video art form the Middle East curated by Khaled Ramadan. Presented by the lecture "Independent video-making...
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Shakloh magazine
Online Visual PDF Magazine For Arab Artists
SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, ... - review:
A typographic matchmaking project for the 16th century: the Civilité of Granjon and the Naskh of Winsoft.
Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some ... - article:
Arabic geometry in contemporary architecture
Traditionally, geometric decorations play an important role in Arabic visual culture and Islamic art. Buildings often carry geometric ...