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JoAnnEl Hema grand opening a success
Amsterdam – August 24 - 26: Organizers, designers, volunteers and especially spectators agreed the grand opening of the El Hema art exhibition was an astonishing success.
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RayaCut Up Djellaba
Customize the traditional djellaba into your fashionable tunique
This item is a kit, where you get a white arabic djelaba and a pair of scissors. What do you need to do then? Just start cutting,…
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Symposium Program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and…
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Project, Font Family:
HudaFedra Arabic: balancing legibility with simplicity.
New Arabic companion to the Fedra font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown type designer, Peter Bilak, and the Arab type designer Tarek Atrissi.
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WillemVaat–i–Maatjes publiekslieveling
Hollands en Arabisch op z'n huiselijkst
Tijdens de Museumnacht konden de bezoekers van El HEMA stemmen op de inzendingen van de Ontwerpwedstijd die Mediamatic organiseerde.…
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Thank you, come again.
El HEMA koopavonden are making good progress
Spectators arrive at El Hema exhibit a month before its grand opening and are invited to see the planning of the exhibit.
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El Hema late nite
Final touches before the opening
Amsterdam - August 23, 2007: The shelves were being stocked, poster-size photographs were carefully being hung in the windows,…
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Book 2007
Typographic Matchmaking
This book is now available for ordering online from Nijhof & Lee and BIS Publishers.
As the world moves forward towards a more international (design) society, the need for fonts that can support multi-scripts becomes…
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Review:
Kufi made easy
28 August 2007
Amsterdam – August 28 and 29: First names, last names, names of friends, single words and phrases were all converted into…
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Project, Font Family:
BigVesta Arabic: legibility in monumental proportions
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.
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Yay! El HEMA nominated for Dutch Design Prizes!
Vote for us if you like El HEMA
We're very proud that we have been nominated for the Dutch Design Prizes. We're also on the shortlist for the Audi(ence) prize. And…
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animation film:
Persepolis, story of an Iranian childhood
An animated biography of an Iranian woman
Sometimes the story about important developments in the Arab world are best told by reports about personal experiences. And…
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Persbericht 3 november 2007
Schotelsticker wint El HEMA ontwerpwedstrijd 2007
Rene Repko van Hema reikt 1e prijs uit tijdens Museumnacht
Amsterdam 3 november 2007 - De eerste prijs van de El HEMA ontwerpwedstrijd is vanavond uitgereikt aan Studio The White Room voor de…
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Khatt projects
We live to work!
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
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Khatt Font Project:
The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project
Building cultural bridges with typeface design
10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts
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WaëlArabising El Hema
The metamorphosis of the contemporary Hema to an Arabic modern El-Hema
Taking a step further in developing its brand, Hema seems to be smoothly introducing its new simplified logo on the products. The…
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Project, Font Family:
Fresco Arabic: western Latin meets western Kufi.
New Arabic companion to the Fresco font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown Ducth type designer, Fred Smeijers, and the Arab type designer Lara Assouad-Khoury
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Project
FabLab @ Mediamatic
Make your own stuff - do it yourself
Artists, designers, entrepreneurs, anyone can come and explore the Fablab machines to create your own prototype. We have a…
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Het Arabische alfabet
Alif Baa Taa
Het Arabische schrift speelt een belangrijke rol in El HEMA, oorspronkelijk bedacht als begeleiding bij "Typographical…
