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Khatt Type Research Project
The Typographic Matchmaking 1.0
Building cultural bridges with typeface design
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Article: Report Edo Smitshuijzen, هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس
A turning point for Arabic typography and design
Report on the Khatt Kufi & Kaffiya symposium and the Typographic Matchmaking project presentations.
The Typographic Matchmaking project ( Arabic fonts and book ), the Khatt online community (www.khtt.net), the Khatt Kufi and Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture , and the El Hema exhibition...
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Exhibition & Book Launch Art Lounge, Beirut
Khatt Fonts
15Dec 200722Dec 2007Please join us in Beirut for the opening, if you can. Arabic type, book launch and art exhibition. 15 Lebanese designers and visual artists were invited to use the Khatt Arabic fonts (developed...
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Khatt Project هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس
Typographic Matchmaking fonts in public spaces
The BigVesta Arabic font used in Guggenheim exhibition design
the Vesta and BigVesta Arabic fonts are used on large scale environmental graphics and lettering for the Saadiyat Island Cultural District Masterplan, which was unveiled in Abu Dhabi, on the 31st of...
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Khatt Fonts in Use
A design collection
Wouldn't you like to have your best work published? We are working on a new publication that features the Khatt Fonts (from Typographic Matchmaking project) as used by designers in their work. For...
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GALLERY
Khatt Fonts in Use
A design collection
We are working on a new publication that features the Khatt Fonts (from Typographic Matchmaking project) as used by designers in their work. Wouldn't you like to have your best work published?
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هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس 2 Apr 2009
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...
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Event: TCD
Fresco Arabic Wins TCD2 2008 Award
29Jul 200822Aug 2008Congratulations to our Khatt members Lara Assouad-Khoury and Fred Smeijers for their achievement! The Fresco Arabic Font designed and developed by Lara Assouad-Khoury and Fred Smeijers , wins the...
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Event: Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA Project
24Aug 20076Jan 2008What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Palestinian scarfs (kaffia) for the price of 2? Tunics or Djballas? School...
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New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers…
El-HEMA Exhibition at Mediamatic
Good graphic design still creates a very powerful image. Sometimes even up to a level that it may mislead and subsequently embarrass captains of industry and top law firms.
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El HEMA got awarded the Dutch Design Prize!
We are pleased to announce that the 'El HEMA' exhibition was awarded the Best Dutch Design Awards 2007 in the visual identity category, and came second in the 'Audi(ence) prize'. Jans Possel and...
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Event: Notre Dame University
El HEMA in Lebanon
29Nov 2007On the 29th of November, Wael Morcos, Khajag Apelian, Raya Tueni and Maria Hakim will give a lecture about the “El Hema” project (the Exhibition they worked on in Amsterdam in August 2007 with...
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Event:
El Hema Lecture at NDU
On the 29th of November, KJ and I will join Raya Tueni and Maria Hakim to give a lecture about “El Hema” at Note Dame University - Zouk Mosbeh (The Exhibition that we worked on in Amsterdam in August...
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Conference
khatt kufi & kaffiya
24Aug 2007 -
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...
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كتاب: هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس, Edo Smitshuijzen
El Hema
Graphic design for social change
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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...