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  • MarieJoe Raidy

    Quality Printing for Effective Communication

    Print Creative Director & Strategic Print Consultant | Lecturer
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  • 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.

  • The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing…

    Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak, Pascal Zoghbi, Lucas de Groot, and Lara Assouad Khoury.
  • 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...

  • 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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    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...

  • مشاريع مؤسسة خط

  • Book 1 Aug 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 imperative. Technology is now capable of supporting many scripts on...
  • book: eps51

    Arabesque

    Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia

    Authors: Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma, Nicolas Bourquin Release: April 2008 Available Soon! Price: € 44,00 / $ 65,00 / £ 33,00 Format: 24 x 28 cm Binding: 192 pages, full colour, hardcover, incl. CD

  • 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...

  • Orientalia : Lead, Light and Letters

    Exhibition on Arabo-Dutch Type Design from the 17th-21st Century.

    A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and understanding between the West and the Arab world, and put the topic in broader historical and cultural context. This traveling exhibition
  • project: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

    Fedra Arabic: balancing legibility with…

    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.

  • Grand Café Mediterranée

    Cultural event endorsed by the Khatt Foundation

    A surprising programme on cultural exchange with the Middle East and North Africa. Here's an Impression of the event to watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjhsWlFBUKM&...
  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 23 أيار / مايو 2007

    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
  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 24 أيار / مايو 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.

  • The Arts of Islam

    Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection

    Exhibition and Symposium at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  • book: Edo Smitshuijzen

    Arabic Font Specimen Book

    The Arabic Font Specimen book is finally published and available! Good news for all of you who have been patiently waiting. To order your copy or browse through the book visit Khatt Books site or...

  • 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...

  • International Design Forum, in Dubai

    Moutamarat's first annual design forum in Dubai.

    Dubai. May 27 - 29, 2007. Promoting design as a critical tool for cultural understanding and commercial excellence.
  • 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...
  • 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...

  • 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 sometimes the narrative can be more poignant when represented in a simple...
  • book: Farah Behbehani

    The Conference of the Birds

    A Study of Farid Ud-Din Attar's Poem Using Jali Diwani Calligraphy

    Based on the twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem The Conference of the Birds, this book interprets the poems of the classic text through illustrations in Jali Diwani script and creates a system for...
  • Book Edo Smitshuijzen 1 Jan 2008

    Arabic Type Specimen Book

    Finally, there will be an overview of Arabic type on the market.

  • MS Embedded Open Type format

    Microsoft proposing the MS Embedded Open Type format

    Microsoft is ready to propose to the World Wide Web Consortium (the W3C) that they adopt the MS Embedded Open Type format for all browsers and platforms.

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