The project team includes:
• Curator: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
• Assistant Curator: Brahim Boucheikha.
• Type Design Team 1: Laura Meseguer + Kristyan Sarkis
• Type Design Team 2: Andreu Balius + Salah Bellizi
• Type Design Team 3: Naïma Ben Ayed + Redouan Chetuan
• External advisor: Juan Luis Blanco
• Documentary film-maker: Jan de Bruin
The project consists of a team of 2 curators, 7 designers and 1 film maker, of mixed origins and nationalities (European, Arab and North African).
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Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Founding Director of the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography.
Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) http://a-g-i.org/ www.khtt.net www.khattbooks.com Instagram: @khattfoundation, @khatt_Books, @khatt_chronicles, @hudasmitshuijzen Twitter: @khttnet ...
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Brahim Boucheikha
After a childhood spent in Morocco, Brahim Boucheikha ventured to Paris where he completed high school and then attended the ECV (École de Communication Visuelle - School of Visual Communication). He...
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Laura Meseguer
Graphic Design and Typography
Laura Meseguer is a graphic designer and type designer living and working in Barcelona. She was a partner in Cosmic design studio until 2005, when she opened her own studio, where she develops...
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Kristyan Sarkis
Graphic & Type Designer
Kristyan Sarkis is a type and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. He holds a BA in Graphic Design from Notre Dame University (Lebanon) and an MA in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Art in...
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Andreu Balius
Type designer based in Barcelona (Spain)
Andreu Balius is a type designer based in Barcelona (Spain). He currently runs his own studio and leads TypeRepublic type foundry. He has been awarded several Excellence in Type Design certificates...
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Salah Bellizi
Designer–typographer
Salaheddine currently lives and works in Marrakech as a typographer in the French-Moroccan Foundry, BabelFont.
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Naïma Ben Ayed
Naïma Ben Ayed is a graphic and type designer from France. She graduated from Estienne school in Paris in 2009 where she started to study the Arabic script. She has worked since at Atelier Julian...
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Redouan Chetuan
Type designer
I have graduated with a Bachelor’s degree of Arts from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetuan, Morocco. After graduating form the National Institute of Fine Arts ib Tetouan, I enrolled in the...
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Juan Luis Blanco
One day, not long ago, I discovered I was in love with letterforms. Then I realised I had not stopped working with letterforms since I started helping my father, a teacher and sign painter, at the...
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Jan de Bruin
Filmmaker
Born 1977, makes personal documentary videos.