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  • Typographic Matchmaking in the City project

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    feb 2011

    The Khatt Foundation , curated by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, is launching the Typographic Matchmaking sequel — Typographic Matchmaking in the City V2.0 project — which focuses on typography’s use in...
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  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.
  • Article Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

    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.

  • 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.

  • The Arts of Islam

    Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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&...

  • 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.

  • In Search of Belonging

    Susan Kish, Xing; Danah Boyd, Researcher; Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics

    It’s human nature to form cliques and join communities. The Internet, TV, music, mobile devices, virtual reality and gaming and print publications make it easier for people to form communities of...

  • Khatt projects

    We live to work!

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

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...

  • 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

  • The Current Market for Arabic Fonts

    Recent Developments and Consumer Needs

    The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly inspired by recent technology developments, globalization and the growth of the Arab graphic design...
  • 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...

  • Typographic Matchmaking Pilot Project

  • 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.

  • Shoppen met Mirjam

    Online verkiezing van de mooiste nieuwe aanwinst

    Winnaar pitch tijdens KJO1 - Web 2.0 Het Tropenmuseum wil zijn bezoekers mee laten beslissen over welke nieuwe aankoop de collectie gaat verrijken. Via een internetverkiezing, gekoppeld aan een...

  • 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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