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  • Image: Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

    KhKuKa logo Arabic only at Mediamatic

    Khatt, Kufi & Kaffiya logo is typeset with TheMix Arabic font by Luc(as) de Groot.
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  • 10 Reasons why I love you.

    How the public is involved in creating our activities and is slowly becoming our colleague.

    A talk at the "Kom je ook?" symposium on web2.0 for culture and heritage. 14 november 2008, Mediamatic at OBA Amsterdam. This is presentation is listing 10+ examples of successful public involvement...
  • F O R U M

    El HEMA forum

    Op 24 augustus 2007 opent de El HEMA tentoonstelling. Dit is de online ontmoetingsplaats voor deelnemers aan de voorbereidingen.

  • El HEMA at Roots Festival

    Inspiration for el HEMA at Roots festival

  • An interview with KhaJag Apelian

    "All the basic things in life are design."

    Born in Dubai, raised in Lebanon, and currently based in The Hague: KJ is leading the Noord design team. He tells us about his love for the performing arts, and the power of design.
  • Persbericht 29 oktober 2007

    El HEMA verlengd tot januari 2008

    Stemmen voor de El HEMA publieksprijs tijdens Museumnacht

    De tentoonstelling El HEMA wordt verlengd t/m 6 januari 2008. De EL HEMA trok tot nu toe bijna 30.000 bezoekers. De El HEMA is geopend op woensdag t/m zaterdag van 12.00 tot 2o.00 uur en op zondag...
  • Eervolle vermelding El HEMA ontwerpwedstrijd 2007 Petra van der Burg 1 Jan 2007

    Roller Burka Blinds

    Watch out!

    Roller Burka Blinds have netted see-through-burka-peep-holes. You can watch the neighbours, but they can't see you!

  • El HEMA

    2007 - 2008

    Imagine an Arabic Hema store. From the 25th of August 2007 to 6 January 2008 Mediamatic presented a design contest, an exhibition, workshops and shop night salons about El HEMA. In oktober 2008 and...

  • The Making of El HEMA

    The making of the El HEMA exhibition

    On August 24th, 2007, Mediamatic will open the doors to El HEMA, the exhibition. What could an arabic Hema look like? El HEMA needs to be filled with food, drinks and products. During the months June

  • 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, the last designs were still being finalized, the media was buzzing...

  • 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.
  • Press release

    Hema threatens with legal action

    because of the El Hema exhibition

    EXTRA: Mediamatic will meet with the Hema B.V.'s Director of Marketing on Friday the 27th of July. In a letter postdated the 23rd of July 2007, the Hema has changed their tone of voice ('The Hema...

  • Arabising 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 Arabic version of the new logo was designed based on the primary El...
  • project: Jens Roep

    Abğad - اﺑﺠﺪ

    Yahtzee met letters

    De verschillende schriften in het Midden-Oosten en Europa zijn nauw aan elkaar verwant. Het nieuwe spel Abğad beeldt dit uit. Abğad is een Arabisch woord voor 'alfabet'.
  • Genomineerd voor de DOEN Pitch

    Cities create artists.

    Artists create cities.

    Our organization's idea is to encourage cities and citizens to sponsor artists. So the artists get funding and create art to tell stories of cities. Imagine Paris. Probably, you picture the art works
  • Eervolle vermelding EL HEMA ontwerpwedstrijd 2007 Sara Emami

    Jouw wereld mijn wereld

    Zie de overeenkomsten

    Er zitten veel overeenkomsten tussen de verschillende culturen, probeer ze ook te zien met behulp van dit spel!

  • 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 registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp. We'll have...

  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...

  • Typographic Matchmaking in the City Public…

    Symposium – Film screening – Book launch Location: De Balie, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam Language: English Free Entrance. Reservation is required. RSVP: khatt.foundation@gmail.com The event will consist of...

  • Arabic pickup lines t-shirts

    T-shirts designed using the arabic typefaces. Still in the process of experimenting with the type and the positioning as well as producing prototypes.

  • Het Arabische alfabet

    Alif Baa Taa

    Het Arabische schrift speelt een belangrijke rol in El HEMA, oorspronkelijk bedacht als begeleiding bij "Typographical Matchmaking" een project van de Khatt (spreek uit Gatt) Foundation . De...
  • conference program

    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium…

    Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.

    The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going beyond the stereotypes of what is associated with Arabic culture...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1994

    Paul Perry, Artist at the Side of God and Triple P

    No artistic profession has been courted more intensively by advertising in preceding decades as that of visual artist. The literary world of the sixties was startled by the huge demand for...

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...
  • 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 sublimation transfer system, laser cutter, vinyl cutter and 3D milling...

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