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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.

  • Kitabat student exhibition

    Kitabat student exhibition - 

    Delegate (Erik Brandt from VCU Qatar) at the special student typographic posters exhibition, for the Kitabat Conference
  • Typographic Matchmaking project 01- detail of book cover

    Typographic Matchmaking project 01- detail of book cover

  • event: Art Lounge, Beirut

    Khatt Fonts

    Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut

    15 Dec 07 19:30 > 22 Dec 07 11:55 Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - Please join us in Beirut for the opening, if you can. Arabic type, book launch and art exhibition. 15 Lebanese designers and visual...
  • Khatt Font Project: 

    2The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project

    Building cultural bridges with typeface design

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - 10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts
  • This weekend El HEMA got awarded the Dutch Design Prize!

    Willem Velthoven - We are pleased to announce that the 'El HEMA' exhibition was awarded the Best Dutch Design Awards 2007 in the visual identity category, ...
  • event: Dubai, American University in Dubai

    The Kitabat conference

    The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.

    5 Apr 06 > 8 Apr 06 Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in partnership with the Khatt Foundation (Center for...
  • Project: 

    A turning point for Arabic typography and design

    Report on the Khatt Kufi & Kaffiya symposium and the Typographic Matchmaking project presentations.

    Edo Smitshuijzen, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - The Typographic Matchmaking project ( Arabic fonts and book ), the Khatt online community (www.khtt.net), the Khatt Kufi and Kaffiya ...
  • conference:

    khatt kufi & kaffiya

    The Khatt Foundation Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture

    24 Aug 07 Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - Khatt and Mediamatic will host a full day of lectures, presentations and celebration of new Arabic cultural expression, at the theater...
  • Khatt Project: 

    Typographic Matchmaking fonts in public spaces

    The BigVesta Arabic font used in Guggenheim exhibition design

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - the Vesta and BigVesta Arabic fonts are used on large scale environmental graphics and lettering for the Saadiyat Island Cultural ...
  • event:

    Exhibition: the Dutch influence on Arabic type

    Dutch designers' involvement in the production of Arabic printing types from the 17thC to present day

    A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and tolerance between the West and the Arab world.