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  • Fred Smeijers

    Type designer & professor

    Works as a type designer, researcher and writer.
  • Aesthetics
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  • legibility
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  • 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

  • Khatt projects

    We live to work!

    Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
  • 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...
  • Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

    The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project

    Building cultural bridges with typeface design

    10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts
  • Oosterdok Gökçe Baykan, Gabrielle de Haseth

    Haeckel Hunt

    "Catch’em all around Oosterdok!" Remastered

    Maybe you have already come across the mysterious signs popping all around the Oosterdok region and wondered what they are.

  • 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.
  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 23 May 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

  • ik ik ik! (me me me!)

    User generated dressups

    ikikik! (me me me!) was an exhibition about Do-it-Yourself Fashion and showing yourself on the net. Ik!Ik!Ik! is part of a series about Identity and Self-representation on the Internet. From July 18...
  • 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...

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Intocht van Jezus Christus…

    Hier wordt Intocht van Jezus Christus te Brussel van James Ensor 1888 door Peter Vandermeersch verteld. 

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Radio, Jean Tinguely 1962

    Radio van Jean Tinguely 1962 told by Zeger Reyers.

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: A Bigger Splash, David…

    Hier wordt A Bigger Splash van David hockney verteld door Dirk van Weelden.

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Brieflezende Vrouw

    Hier wordt Brieflezende vrouw van Johannes Vermeer beschreven door Peter Vandermeersch.
  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 24 May 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.
  • 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...

  • 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

  • Visiting Hours

    Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday between 14.00 and 16.00, you are very welcome to step by our Open Aroma Lab. Smell our selection of aroma-molecules, learn about working with scent as a...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek

    Geodesic dome research

    Testing sizes, entrance and connectors.

    Here is a first look intro the research and testing process of the mycelium geodesic dome project.

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: IJsfontein, Birthe…

    Hier wordt Ijsfontein van Birthe Leemeijer door Anna Tilroe beschreven. 

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: 100 Untitled Works in Mil…

    Hier wordt 100 Untitled Works in Mil Aluminum door Donald Judd beschreven door Conny Groenewegen. 

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Flap Flap, Philip…

    Hier wordt Flap Flap door Philip Vermeulen beschreven door kunstenaar Margherita Soldati. 

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Angela Davis + Here The…

    Charles Esche Charles Esche is director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; professor of contemporary art and curating at Central Saint Martins, UAL, London and co-director of  Afterall   Journal and...

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Oktober 18, 1977, Gerhard…

    Hier wordt October 18, 1977 van Gerhard Richter door Anna Tilroe beschreven. 

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Discomedusae, Ernst…

    Hier word Dicomedusa van Ernst Haeckle beschreven door Willem Velthoven. 

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