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Article: Report Edo Smitshuijzen, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
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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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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Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
The goals of the project
Creating good matching Arabic fonts for existing Latin font families
The main thrust of the project is to address the modernization of Arabic textfaces and to develop quality Arabic fonts.
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Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
The design brief
To create legible Arabic fonts that can accommodate the design needs of contemporary design in the Arab world.
The brief was limited to creating book typefaces that can compliment the chosen Latin typefaces. Innovation and diversity in Arabic textfaces was a primary concern because book and publication design...
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Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
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.
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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...
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Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 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
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Event: TCD
Fresco Arabic Wins TCD2 2008 Award
29Jul 2008For excellence in Typeface Design22Aug 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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Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 24 May 2007
Sada echoing Seria: two scripts in one family
New Arabic companion to the Seria font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Martin Majoor, and the Arab type designer Pascal Zoghbi.
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Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 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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book 3 Aug 2007
Ali Baba book cover
The El Hema edition of Ali Baba . This is a joint publication of Bulaaq publishers and Mediamatic Foundation. The book cover is designed by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares (in the style of the El Hema...
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Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 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.
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Khatt Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
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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Book khatt kufi & kaffiya Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 1 Aug 2007
Typographic Matchmaking
This book is out of print
Copyright©2007. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares Published by BIS Publishers, Amsterdam. 2007 ISBN 978-90-6369-124-0 A new edition is available for ordering from Khatt Books. Click here to place your...
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Khatt Font 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
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Conference
khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Khatt Foundation Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture24Aug 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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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...
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Event: Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA Project
24Aug 2007El HEMA is a non-commercial cultural project by the Mediamatic Foundation in Amsterdam.6Jan 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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Kufi Workshops
The Kufi is the one of the oldest Arabic Calligraphic styles and at the same time it is geometric and easy to teach to students and non-Arab people. This is why I was doing Kufi Workshops since I...
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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
the Amsterdam Arab designer's team presenting El Hema at NDU, Lebanon29Nov 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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Exhibition & Book Launch Art Lounge, Beirut
Khatt Fonts
15Dec 2007Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut22Dec 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...