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  • Edo Smitshuijzen

    Graphic and product designer and design writer.

    Studied graphic design at the IVKNO, now called the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Started as a freelance designer working for a large Dutch publishing house. Joined later (1977) a small design...

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  • Mediamatic Post CS

    Office and exhibition space 2004 - 2008

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Project:

    INNL: writing history together

    Everyone can participate in the social semantic web of the National of History

    On Wednesday, November 17, 2010, the Museum of National History launched the community site www.innl.nl , in collaboration with Mediamatic Lab and Lava Graphic Design. Mediamatic Lab developed the...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Project:

    BiD, Business in Development Network

    Interactive website & online appraisal system for business plans

    Entrepreneurs publish business plans and make contact with micro credit investors

  • Interactive installation

    ikPod: prizewinning RFID multimedia guide

    Making a museum tour interactive and personal

    The first version of the ikPod is an interactive multimedia guide that offers visitors of an exhibition access to online information about objects. With the push of a button, visitors can choose...

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    The Automatiek

    Interactive installation for the Museum of National History

    On May 26th, 2010 the Museum of National History presented the Automatiek . Mediamatic Lab contributed to the design, built the installation and provides ongoing technical support. The Automatiek is...

  • 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&...

  • 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.

  • Typographic Matchmaking Pilot Project

  • Khatt projects

    We live to work!

    Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.

  • Community website

    Nieuw-West Express

    Cultureel Buurtplatform voor Nieuw-West

    Het platform waar iedereen in Amsterdam Nieuw-West kunst- en cultuurprojecten tentoonstelt en aankondigt. Deze community website voor cultuurmakers heeft als doel het rijke, snel groeiende culturele...

  • 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

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Discomedusae, Ernst…

    Hier word Dicomedusa van Ernst Haeckle beschreven door Willem Velthoven. 

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Andy Smith

    The face of the AndyFace

    Andy Smith is a Flock / Jaiku / Symbolic Table developer who has an interesting hobby. He calls himself Andy “Bad Motherfucker Smith"

  • 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...

  • Cultural Dating

    on the future of museums, archiving and cultural institutions

    TIME magazine choose YOU, the internet user, as person of the year 2006. Meanwhile however, the cultural sector is not making many moves to harness the potential of the enormous amounts of active...

  • Film: Programmeerbare lego/Remko Scha, Willem Velthoven, Peter Luining, Stagecast, Remko Scha, Sander Kessels, ZEBRA, Pieter van der Ploeg, Stagecast, Dick Rijken 1 Jan 1999

    Workshop 3

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    06/02/99

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