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Karin van Es
ik BEN karin
Junior teacher-researcher at the Centre for Television in Transition (Utrecht University). Working on her PhD "Constellations of Liveness in Social Media Platforms."
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Jarr Geerligs
Professional Dreamer & Realizer
Jarr Geerligs is a Professional Dreamer & Realizer. Who creates concepts using ideas, words, images, motion and anything else that lies around for brands and his art projects.
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Workshop Archive Mediamatic Post CS
Hybrid Toys Workshop
23Jan 2008- Develop prototypes for playful hybrid world applications25Jan 2008In this concentrated hands-on course participants will develop prototypes for playful hybrid world applications. We will focus on designing physical toys with digital and/or networked components. We'...
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Vaat–i–Maatjes publiekslieveling
Hollands en Arabisch op z'n huiselijkst
Tijdens de Museumnacht konden de bezoekers van El HEMA stemmen op de inzendingen van de Ontwerpwedstijd die Mediamatic organiseerde. De vaatwashandschoenen met handbeschildering in Arabiserende stijl...
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belen roldan
Studies: Humanities, Publishing and Audiovisual Communication. What I can do: I can be close to anything related to culture, technology, communication and creativity. Nationality: Spanish, why not?
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Lauren Popko van Holten
twitter.com/lfpvh
creative and savvy marketing professional, eyes open for exciting opportunities
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simona sofronie
media architect
an architect bored with contemporary architecture... looking for new means of design in a variety of images somewhere between media, art and architecture graduated architecture in Patras, Greece PhD...
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Lara Assouad Khoury
Arab type and graphic designer
Lara Assouad Khoury was born in Montreal, Canada and graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor in Graphic Design degree (BGD) in 1998. She worked as a designer at LeoBurnett...
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Nadine Touma
Artist, writer, and filmmaker who lives and works in Beirut
She has created numerous installations, literary works, and artworks addressing issues that range from human rights to hymenoplasty. Touma has participated in exhibitions in Lebanon, Egypt, and...
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J.R. Osborn
Doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. The title of my dissertation is “The Type of Calligraphy: Writing, Print, and the...
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Brody Neuenschwander
Calligrapher and visual artist
Brody Neuenschwander is a calligrapher and text artist working in a variety of media. He has studied Arabic and Japanese calligraphy in order to create a new form of western calligraphy. He has...
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Zeina Maasri
Designer and professor of graphic design
Zeina Maasri is Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design program at the American University of Beirut. She received her Bachelor degree in Graphic Design from AUB and her graduate degree from the...
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Khaled Ramadan
Born in Beirut in 1965, he is a curator, video documentary maker and a lecturer in new media aesthetics. His fields of specialties are visual culture aesthetics, multi-media studies and the history...
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Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is an editor and journalist covering the culture and politics of the Middle East. She has co-edited Creating Spaces of Freedom; Culture in Defiance (2002), Kaveh Golestan: Recording the...
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Jelle van der Toorn Vrijthoff
Jelle van der Toorn Vrijthoff is currently the president of the prestigious AGI association (Alliance Graphique Internationale).
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Rania G.
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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.
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Rania Baltagi
After working in Advertising and Web design, I finally found a home in broadcast design. For the last 4 years I’ve been designing logos for programs on air, art directing their title sequences and...
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Edo Smitshuijzen
Graphic and product designer and design writer.
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Fotis Gerakis
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James Boekbinder
filmmaker, copywriter, information architect
I first figured out what Mediamatic was talking about when I began translating their magazine as a student, back in 1989. I was studying animation filmmaking. Largely through my involvement with...
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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
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Writing From The Margins
Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography
Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers
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Pascal Zoghbi
Type Designer and Typographer
Pascal Zoghbi Biography: When setting up to establish 29Letters type foundry in 2013, Lebanese designer and educator Pascal Zoghbi aspired to explore the diversity and potential of the Arabic script.