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  • Ahmed FOULA

    Graphic Designer

    I originally studied architecture, which was my first professional introduction to the field of 'Design', and a first step towards my current occupation as a freelance graphic designer. In the design...

  • textface
  • kufi
  • cross cultural
  • identity
  • Technologie
  • 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

  • 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 projects

    We live to work!

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

  • 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.

  • 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, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 24 mei 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.

  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 23 mei 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

    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.

  • Shakloh magazine

    Online Visual PDF Magazine For Arab Artists

    SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, calligraphers, typographers, and photographers. Each issue is...

  • 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

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    The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project

    Building cultural bridges with typeface design

    10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts

  • Typographic Matchmaking Pilot Project

  • 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...

  • Book 26 mei 2007

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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&...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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.

  • animation film Edo Smitshuijzen

    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...

  • 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.

  • 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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