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  • Edo Smitshuijzen

    Graphic and product designer and design writer.

    Studied graphic design at the IVKNO, now called the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Started as a freelance designer working for a large Dutch publishing house. Joined later (1977) a small design...
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  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    Type Design Education 
in Reverse

    Interview with Yanone (Jan Gerner), Graphic and Type Designer

    Part of the  Multiple Baselines series Yanone is a Dresden-born German type designer. Yanone is a one-man type design studio specialized in high quality Arabic and Latin type design, logotypes, and...
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    Every day I make pencil sketches to find new…

    Interview with Damoon Khanjanzadeh, type and graphic designer.

      Damoon Khanjanzadeh “My background in type design originates from my learning calligraphy in childhood and at later ages. I studied graphic design at the Fine Arts University of Tehran and...
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen 27 févr 2021

    I’m not an artist, not yet

    Interview with Reza Bakhtiarifard, type designer.

    Exceptional position Iran stands out from the rest; it calls itself now the Islamic Republic, putting literally religion at its cultural and political centre. The Nastaliq style was invented in Iran.
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    The tough and dynamic beginning of my career…

    Interview with Muhammed Hadi, graphic and type designer.

    My first career steps "Even after completing all my studies, it wasn’t easy to find a job in both survey engineering as well as calligraphy. The computer era had started, and I was forced to study...
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    I follow the same business model as most clipart…

    Interview with Mostafa El Abasiry, graphic and type designer.

    Edo Smitshuijzen: Please introduce yourself I am born in Egypt and graduated from the Fine Arts College of Alexandria University. I also hold a Master’s degree in design and creative industry...

  • Mashrebiya Font Competition Jury Report 2017

    Reporting on the selected final submission of Thierry Fétiveau's font Azmar.

    The jury was impressed by the apparent level of motivation of Theirry Fétiveau to deliver a very complete multi-script font. His font includes both a complete character set for the Latin as well as...

  • The Deadline has been extended to 31 July 2017!

    Join The Mashrebiya Font Competition: Fonts for modern architectural screens.

    The Khatt Foundation's novel type design competition that aims to add culture-specific fonts to the Arab visual culture, fonts specifically designed to produce modern Mashrebiya architectural screens.

  • Don't miss the Deadline of 30 June 2017!

    Join The Mashrebiya Font Competition: Fonts for modern architectural screens.

    The Khatt Foundation's novel type design competition that aims to add culture-specific fonts to the Arab visual culture, fonts specifically designed to produce modern Mashrebiya architectural screens.

  • Review: Jameel Prize 2013

    A rejuvenation of the various expressions of Islamic visual culture

    The winner of the third Jameel Prize was announced on the 10th of December in London. The submissions of the 12 nominees of this prize is exhibited in the Victorian and Albert Museum (V&A) in London...
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    An inventor can also respect tradition

    Interview with Stéphane Boeuf, Senior Engineer at WinSoft International

    Part of the  Multiple Baselines series
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    I consider OpenType a proprietary font format

    Interview with Adil Alawi, Director of Diwan

    Part of the  Multiple Baselines series

  • A Real Typographic Spring

    Launching the Multiple Baselines interview series

    Part of the  Multiple Baselines series Multiple Baselines : a series of interviews with people who play a role in the development of technology and design for the Arabic script.

  • A Bad Typographic Habit

    Western influence on Arabic type design is regularly discussed in heated debates. In most cases it is a bit of a senseless discussion.

  • Arab visual splendor in French animation

    Azur and Asmar, by Michel Ocelot

    The film is directed and produced by Michel Ocelot and is a must see for all interested in Arabic visual language. Click here for more details on the film's official website .

  • 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 Oriental, combining yesterday's heritage with today's...

  • Timbuktu

    a treasure chamber of Arabic manuscripts

    The city Timbuktu in the African state of Mali stands for the end of the civilized world. Much of that is still true, the city is difficult to reach and consist merely of a large collection of low...
  • article Edo Smitshuijzen

    Arabic geometry in contemporary architecture

    Traditionally, geometric decorations play an important role in Arabic visual culture and Islamic art. Buildings often carry geometric patterns in tiles, mosaics and painted decorations.

  • New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers…

    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 captains of industry and top law firms.

  • The Big Kashida Secret

    The great masters of Arabic calligraphy loved to show their skills but they did not put much of their knowledge on paper for others to learn. The same kind of secrecy did continue with the...
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    Letter proportions in dual-script fonts.

    (Latin-Arabic)

    Designing fonts that combine more than one script in one font file is no longer an exceptional activity. A lot of type designers are professionally challenged by designing multiple script fonts. The...
  • Article: Multiple Baselines Edo Smitshuijzen

    My heroes are the unknown scribes and artisans

    Interview with Bahia Shehab, art historian, writer, educator, street artist, and designer.

    Part of the  Multiple Baselines series Bahia Shehab likes to advance along a wide front. At the age of 38, she managed to collect a Bachelors degree in graphic design from The American University of...

  • About the Khatt Foundation

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