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  • Engy Aly

    Born in Cairo in 1982.
  • Myth
  • script
  • cross cultural

  • 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

  • The Arts of Islam

    Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection

    Exhibition and Symposium at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

  • TheMix Arabic: balancing handwritten and…

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Lucas de Groot, and the renown Arab calligrapher and designer, Mouneer Al-Shaarani, and with technical support from Pascal...

  • FontShop chooses a Khatt Foundation font as its…

    Typographic Matchmaking V1.0, implemented in the mainstream international type market

    The former Sada Font designed and developed by Pascasl Zoghbi and Martin Majoor within the framework of the Khatt Foundation's Typographic Matchmaking v1.0, has been recently released by FontShop...
  • Emirates Palace Auditoriu, Abu Dhabi Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

    Arts of Islam Symposium Program

    The Symposium held in association with the exhibition The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection. Master of Ceremonies: H.E. Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Vice Chairman of ADACH and...

  • مشاريع مؤسسة خط

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • 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 Post CS

    Office and exhibition space 2004 - 2008

    Mediamatic moved into Post CS in 2004. We moved out in July 2008.

  • Runaway van Kanye West

    Vanessa Beecroft als het geheim wapen van een nieuwe regisseur

    Eigenlijk is Kanye Wests videoclip "Runaway" vooral sterk in alles wat er niet te zien is. Kanye is de regisseur, tegelijk de hoofdrolspeler en zo meer, maar let op, bij de aftiteling staat Vanessa...
  • book: Paulo Coelho

    De Alchemist

    Volg de wijsheid van het hart

    In de Alchemist maken we kennis met de Andalusische schapenherder Santiago. Hij heeft één grote wens en dat is reizen. Hij wil de wereld zien en weten hoe de wereld in elkaar zit. Van infonu
  • مشروع تصميم خطوط Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

    المزاوجة التيپوغرافية للخط الطباعي العربي

    ١٠ مصممين عرب وهولنديين يصممون حروف طباعية عربية مرافقة لحروف لاتينية

    اطلاق هذا المشروع الريادي. تمّت مناقشة مشروع «المزاوجة التيپوغرافية للخط الطباعي» في بادئ الأمر مع عدد من المصمّمين الهولنديين خلال مؤتمر ATypI في براغ , في أيلول/سبتمبر 2004. وتُرجمت هذه المناقشة...

  • Writing From The Margins

    Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography

    Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers

  • Cuban Blood Sausages

    Blood Sausage Performance by ENEMA Art Collective

    Although we live in a world filled with different cultures, cuisines, and languages, there is one dish that is shared among cultures and one that has lasted through different traditions. That dish is...

  • WITH/WITHOUT

    Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East

    Published by Bidoun and Moutamarat on the occasion of the first International Design Forum, May 27-29, 2007 Edited by Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen Featuring: Mauricio Guillen, Yto...

  • The Typographic Landscapes of the Arab World

    Research on Aesthetic Trends and Legibility

    Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab world, through the analysis of selected current practices in Arabic type design, corporate identities
  • Proposal by: Natascha Nanji

    Welcome to Studio Swan

    Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition

    Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...

  • Our first steps into reality

    The start of a new project with Jasmin Moeller

    Recently, Mondriaan Fund granted Jasmin Moeller and Mediamatic the Commissioning Contemporary Art scholarship for the Reality of Theory project. This is a project in which the audience will produce...

  • Can we legally represent the voice and thought of…

    Is it possible for humanity to legally and politically represent the voice and voice-consciousness (thought) of non-human entities? Contemporary philosophers and anthropologists argue that it is...

  • Typographic Matchmaking Pilot Project

  • One Thousand and One Nights

    about objects people & stories

    a story telling brainstorm

  • Hermann Nitsch @ Incubate Tilburg

    De Day After

    De geur van het bloed dringt zich nog steeds aan me op. Gisteren was ik bij de performance van Hermann Nitsch op het Incubate Festival in Tilburg. Het was een ervaring die me nog lang bij zal blijven.

  • Nazar

    Photographs From The Arab World

    Edited by Wim Melis. Essays by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Issam Nassar, Isolde Brielmaier, Issa Touma, Peter Lewis and Sherifa Zuhur.

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