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  • Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

    Founding Director of the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography.

    Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) http://a-g-i.org/   Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, holds a PhD from Leiden University (in Middle Eastern Studies, 2017), an MFA from from Yale...
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  • Traffic Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

    Greenprint

    First of Series of Seminars on Sustainable Design

    Due to unforseen circusmatnces, this event has been canceled . The first in the Via Traffic series of seminars that intend to educate on how design can tackle one of our times most pressing issues.

  • Multi Online Design Journal

    Call for Submissions (2008/2009)

    Multi's international editorial board seeks original, unpublished contributions for upcoming issues. Multi aims to nurture an inclusive intellectual environment that both stimulates and supports the...

  • Khatt Lunch in Cairo

    Please join us for the first annual Khatt Lunch 2010, if you are in town

    We hope to see as many of you as possible Make sure to confirm your attendance by emailing Huda smitshuijzen AbiFares Address: Villa 10A, al-Karma compound, Sheikh Zayed City, 6th of October, Cairo

  • 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 has a special urgency.

  • Arabic Typography as Social Campaign

    Khede Kasra Campaign by the Hariri Foundation

    if you can view the video here, please visit it at the link below:
  • Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

    The design brief

    To create legible Arabic fonts that can accommodate the design needs of contemporary design in the Arab world.

    The brief was limited to creating book typefaces that can compliment the chosen Latin typefaces. Innovation and diversity in Arabic textfaces was a primary concern because book and publication design...
  • Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

    The goals of the project

    Creating good matching Arabic fonts for existing Latin font families

    The main thrust of the project is to address the modernization of Arabic textfaces and to develop quality Arabic fonts.
  • Article Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

    Art museum projects in the Middle East

    Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated)

  • Khatt Foundation on the Rolling Stone's Top 20…

  • New York Times _T Magazine Michael Rock

    Khatt Foundation in the New York Times

    The Ever-Evolving Typographic Life of the Arabic Language

    Fonts and letterforms are more than just design. They’re the very fabric of civilization. So what happens when we can’t write together?
  • Khatt Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

    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 District Masterplan, which was unveiled in Abu Dhabi, on the 31st of...

  • 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.

  • In Translation

    Khatt projects featured in frieze magazine

  • Khatt & Concrete Carpet

    Letters Off the Page in The National (press)

  • INSPIRE / Huda Smitshuijzen Abifarès

    Design Indaba video interview at What Design Can Do 2011

    Design thinking is important for innovation in traditional scripts.

  • TMMC Film on YouTube

    The Typographic Matchmaking in the City Documentary in 3 parts

    If you cannot view these videos please go directly to Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCi5k96IoxU

  • Winning the Match / Huda Smitshuijzen Abifarès

    Video interview on Gestalten.TV

    Gestalten video interview about the Khatt Foundation's Typographic Matchmaking project, Arabic fonts and calligraphy.

  • The 'Typographic Matchmaking in the City' Movie

    Documentary film

      In case you cannot see here go to link on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/227067426

  • Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib

    The 3rd edition of the multi-script typographic research project of the Khatt Foundation

    Will be launching in September 2015 Curator: Huda Smitshuijzen-AbiFares Assistant Curator: Brahim Boucheikha
  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 24 May 2007

    BigVesta Arabic: legibility in monumental…

    New Arabic companion to the BigVesta font family

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Gerard Unger, and the renown Arab type designer Nadine Chahine.

  • About the Khatt Foundation

    Center for Arabic Typography

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