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TMMC Film on YouTube
The Typographic Matchmaking in the City Documentary in 3 parts
If you cannot view these videos please go directly to Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCi5k96IoxU
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The 'Typographic Matchmaking in the City' Movie
Documentary film
In case you cannot see here go to link on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/227067426
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Event: Amsterdam, Dubai, Paris, Beirut
Typographic Matchmaking in the City project
1févr 20094févr 2011The 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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Event: Type Directors Club
Monumental Typography for Public Space
Typographic Matchmaking in the City4oct 2011Lecture at the Type Directors Club Salon Date: Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 19:00–20:00 (doors open at 18.30) Location: TDC, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, NY 10018, New York http://tdc.org
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Reminder: Film screening / book signing @ the 6th…
Khatt Foundation's Typographic Matchmaking in the City in NY
@ MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave., NY 11101 Long Island City Organized By Printed Matter, Inc., +12129250325, www.printedmatter.org/ Date: Sunday, 2 October 2011
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Links
Khatt Foundation in the Press
KHATT FOUNDATION http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/rolling-stone-design-special-issue http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/kunst_aus_dem_islamischen_raum-3476800.html http://www.oryxinflightmagazine.com...
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Event: Klokgebouw Strijp-S, Eindhoven
Khatt Foundation@ Dutch Design Week 2010, NL
23oct 2010Presenting the Typographic Matchmaking in the City project31oct 2010The Typographic Matchmaking in the City project aims to introduce a new approach to lettering and poetic narrative that would create an alternative public space, a new form of “physical” urban poetry.
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Book: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Typographic Matchmaking in the City
Propositions for a Pluralist Public Space
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City Book
Special offer until 15th January 2011
To order your copy now please go to http://www.khattbooks.com/ If you order the book before the 15th of January 2011, you will receive a discount from retail price €45 to €39. Books will ship out...
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Image: Edo Smitshuijzen
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City at Art Dubai…
Presentation - Film screening - Book signing
Join us for this event at the Art Park on Saturday 19 March. Art Park Talks with Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
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Event: Creekside
Typographic Matchmaking in the City: Film…
At Dubai's newest Cultural design space14juin 2014A Jan de Bruin and Khatt Foundation Production
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Event: Plaza Futura Theatre
Typographic Matchmaking in the City : The Film
24oct 2010Premiering at the Film + Design Festival in Eindhoven29oct 2010A film by Jan de Bruin Productions and the Khatt Foundation Dutch Premiere Film by Jan de Bruin 35 minutes documentary Screening dates and times: Sunday, 24 October 2010, at 17:00h Monday, 25...
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0
The Typographic Matchmaking sequel — Typographic Matchmaking in the City V2.0 project — focuses on typography’s use in placemaking within an urban context. The design teams consist of carefully...
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Event: Beirut Art Center (BAC)
Typographic Matchmaking in the City at Beirut Art…
Presentation - Film screening - Book signing11avril 2011Speaker: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Film Maker: Jan de Bruin Film Screening:19:00 - 19:45 Presentation: 20:00 - 20:45 Book Signing: 21:00 - 22:00 Language: English, Free Entrance. RSVP: khatt.
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Event: ART DUBAI
Typographic Matchmaking in the City at Art Dubai…
Presentation - Film screening - Book signing19mars 2011Art Park Talks on Saturday 19 March. Location: Art Park. Speaker: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
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Event: MoMA PS1
Khatt Foundation's Typographic Matchmaking in the…
29sept 2011Film screening / book signing @ the 6th Annual NY Art Book Fair 20112oct 2011Date: Sunday, 2 October 2011, 12:00-13:00 Location: The Classroom, Gallery U (3rd Floor) A curated series of informal conversations, workshops, readings and other artist-led programs, with continuous...
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Film: Making Of
TMMC: The Kasheeda 3D Font project
kasheeda is a 3-D typeface designed by Yara Khoury and Melle Hammer as part of the Khatt Foundation project 'Typographic Matchmaking in the City'.
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Documentary Film: Interview
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès: Winning the Match
Typographer, graphic designer, researcher, and writer Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is the founder of the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography, which is dedicated to advancing design research...
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The Khatt Foundation on Al Jazeera English
on ARTSWORLD programme's 7th and last episode
ARTSWORLD is half hour weekly programme broadcast on Al Jazeera English that includes four 5-minute inserts each week from around the world.
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TMM2.0—Project Brief
For the first time in history the earth’s population is more urban than rural. This means that for most people on this planet, the city has become their natural habitat. When in this context we speak...
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Online Talk
FieldWorks 2
A conversation and Q&A with Huda AbiFarès about Typographic Matchmaking in the City.16sept 2020 -
Archive 2011
News related to the interests of the Khatt design community posted in 2011
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Image: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 13 déc 2010
TMMC Cover
Typographic Matchmaking in the City Propositions for a Pluralist Public Space, 2011
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Autumn Events in New York & Dubai
Please join us if you happen to be nearby to any (or all) of our Khatt Foundation events this fall. Visit khtt.net to read more about each event .
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TMMC Book Pages
The Typographic Matchmaking in the City, Propositions for a Pluralist Public Space . Edited by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares Published by Khatt Books. Amsterdam. 2011. Highly illustrated 396 pages in...
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BAF09 Exhibit, Dubai
The Typographic Matchmaking in the City V2.0 project
The Khatt Foundation, House 58 Al Bastakia Art Fair: Exhibition / Project Space / Public Program 15-22 March, Dubai 2009 www.baf.ae
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City reviewed in Al Akhbar newspaper in Beirut. April 2011. Part2 of article.
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City reviewed in Al Akhbar newspaper in Beirut. April 2011. Part1 of article.
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Event: Dubai, UAE
TypoMatch2.0 in the City: Presentation at Art…
17mars 2009Sketches, Ideas and Installation at Bastakia Art Fair 200922mars 2009Sunday 15 - 22 March 2009 | Bastkia Art Fair 2009 Typographic Installation at Khatt Foundation's House 58 Exhibition of sketches and ideas of the Typographic Matchmaking in the City project...
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Image: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City, workshop in Doha, Qatar. One project by Doha based designers Haneen Al-Sharif and Charbel Najem
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Image: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 28 sept 2010
LOP_KHTT_Wall
Wall of poetry, by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares. Fonts from the Typographic Matchmaking 1.0, and the Typographic Matchmaking in the City projects.
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Image: Jeroen van Erp 2 mai 2010
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City Project: 3D typography in urban context. Design by René Knip, KJ Apelian & Jeroen van Erp.
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Image: Naji El Mir
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City: exhibit, film screening and workshop. At the Khatt Foundation Design Studio, at Abu Dhabi Art 2010. 4 – 7 November, 2010.
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Event: Abu Dhabi Art, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi
Khatt Foundation Design Studio 2010
4nov 2010Exhibition, Filmscreening, Book Launch, Talks, and Worshop7nov 2010The Khatt Foundation Design Studio at Abu Dhabi Art 2010 will be a platform for presenting the Typographic Matchmaking in the City as well as public recording studio where live interviews with local...
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Image: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 6 nov 2010
Khatt_TMMC_ADA2010
Typographic Matchmaking in the City: exhibit, film screening and workshop. At the Khatt Foundation Design Studio, at Abu Dhabi Art 2010. 4 – 7 November, 2010.
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Image: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 8 nov 2009
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Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0 (of New York). A manifestation of the Khatt Foundation at the Performa 09 performing and visual arts festival in New York.
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Khatt projects
We live to work!
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
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Team
The Typographic Matchmaking in the City Project consists of 5 teams of 3 designers (Arab and Dutch, type/graphic designers, architects and industrial designers).
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Image: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
ArtMustMove.jpg
One of the projects of StoryLine® (work in progress) from the Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0 project, to be presented in an experimental series of concrete poetry posters at the Performa09...
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Image: Joumana Al Jabri 22 sept 2009
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3D model by Joumana Al Jabri_ for the lettering system being developed (within Erik Van Blokland and Pascal Zoghbi), within the Typographic Matchmaking in the City v2.0. project.
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Image: Marieke Bijster 31 déc 2012
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Nuqat font used in the book Sprectal Imprints. Nuqat is a design by Khajag Apelian and René knip developed in the framework of the Khatt Foundation's project 'Typographic Matchmaking in the City".
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TMMC Project Presentation in Amsterdam
Symposium – Film Screening – Book launch
Location: De Balie, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam Date: Friday, 4 February 2011 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 Language: English Free Entrance. Registration is required. RSVP: khatt.foundation@gmail.com
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Event: Abu Dhabi Art, Auditorium
The TMMC film
The making of the TMMC project6nov 2010A film by Jan de Bruin Productions and the Khatt Foundation Abu Dhabi, UAE, Premiere Film by Jan de Bruin 35 minutes documentary
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Ahmad Issa
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Winning the Match / Huda Smitshuijzen Abifarès
Video interview on Gestalten.TV
Gestalten video interview about the Khatt Foundation's Typographic Matchmaking project, Arabic fonts and calligraphy.
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Khatt Foundation Design Studio @ Abu Dhabi Art…
Exhibition, Filmscreening, Book Launch, Talks, and Worshop
This November (4 – 7 Nov. 2010) the Khatt Foundation will be one of the design exhibitors in the Abu Dhabi Art Design Studio. Please join us to voice your opinion, present your work, hang out and...
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Event: SPD (Scuola Politacnica di Design)
A window on design in the Arab World
Contemporary Arabic typography for an open and crosscultural public space9mai 2012Huda Smitshuizen AbiFarès presents, within SPD's Design Talks, the Khatt Foundation platform for cultural dialogue to promote better understanding between Western nations and the Arab World.
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Talk Aula of the Universiteit van Amsterdam
Multiscript Typography for a Global Citizenship
The 3rd Wim Crouwel Lecture 2016, to be delivered by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès16nov 2016Lecture, 16.00, at Aula of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Singel 411, Amsterdam. Drinks at Bijzondere Collecties, Oude Turfmarkt 129, Amsterdam. Lecture will be delivered in English.
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Event:
Khatt and the Typomatch 2.0 in the City on Al…
The last and 7th episode, and our 5 minutes of fame
One of the items to be filmed in this reportage on the Khatt Foundation for Al Jazeera English — Artsworld Program is of course our latest and ongoing project of Typographic Matchmaking in the City.
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Event: Performa Hub
Art Must Move
1nov 2009PERFORMA teams up with Khatt Foundation22nov 2009Inspired by the Futurists’ approach to typography and graphic design as well as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Ottoman legacy in Cairo, Performa develops a dialogue with the Khatt Foundation, a non
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Talk Beijing
Typographic Matchmaking at ICOGRADA Beijing 09
Typographic Design in Networked Societies28oct 2009Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares will be presenting the Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0 project at the XIN ICOGRADA Bejing 09 World Design Congress . The presentation will use the project case...
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Event: Khatt Foundation@ Dutch Design Week 2010, NL, Van Abbemuseum
Typographic Matchmaking in Eindhoven
Multidisciplinary Workshop at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven28oct 2010Within the framework of Tricksters Tricked, the Van Abbe Museum has invited the Khatt Foundation.
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Event: ADA2010 Design Studio
Khatt Urban Poetry Workshop
3D Typography Workshop at ADA20104nov 2010Workshop leaders: Joumana Al Jabri & Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares http://www.abudhabiartfair.ae/en/Content/workshops.aspx The workshop explores the creation of urban 3D multilingual typography. The...
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Event: De Balie
Typographic Matchmaking in the City Public…
Symposium – Film screening – Book launch4févr 2011http://digitaleeditie.nrc.nl/digitaleeditie/NH/2011/1/20110204___/1_11/index.html Location: De Balie, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam Language: English Free Entrance. Reservation is required. RSVP: khatt.