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  • mahdi naghavi

    Iranian Graphic Designer / calligrapher

    I’m an iranian graphic designer and calligrapher.I was born on 1980. Currently I live & work in Istanbul. I felt in love with khatt. nowadays farsi letters are my best friends.
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  • iran
  • naghavi
  • mahdi
  • khat
  • ink
  • calligraphy
  • kufi
  • Typography

  • 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...

  • Kufi made easy

    28 August 2007

    Amsterdam – August 28 and 29: First names, last names, names of friends, single words and phrases were all converted into beautiful Arabic patterns during typographer Pascal Zoghbi’s two-day Kufi...

  • 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

  • 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.
  • Book: Sluys jr, W.N. van der 1 Jan 1942

    Het ABC der reclame

    "Reclame.... Propaganda.... Bestaat er wel een interessanter onderwerp, waar een auteur over kan schrijven? Juist in dezen tijd ?" Hier kunnen ze bij KesselsKramer nog een puntje aan zuigen.....
  • Project: Chandra Brooks

    Storytelling Kit

    This workshop used a kit created inside the FabLab allowing participants the opportunity to create prints from the handcrafted source material.

    The art of storytelling is as old as humanity itself. Every man, woman child & animal has a story; the question is, "How do I tell it"? The answer is start with someone else's tale that you can...

  • El HEMA

    2007 - 2008

    Imagine an Arabic Hema store. From the 25th of August 2007 to 6 January 2008 Mediamatic presented a design contest, an exhibition, workshops and shop night salons about El HEMA. In oktober 2008 and...

  • Paint it Black

    Mike Giant joins Sur Place

    With Mike Giant we have caught a delicious fish for the Sur Place menu. Giant is famous as a graffiti artist, illustrator, tattooist and partner of Rebel8 clothing. Black ink is Giant's specialty and...

  • Alien heads found in Georgia

    About our beloved Typeface Georgia

    This typeface you have been consuming with or without your knowledge allows for a pleasant read. Right? Designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft in 1996, Georgia was one of the first typefaces...

  • WatSpinoza? op het Damrak

    Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?

    Op 7 mei 2009 werd de eerste WatSpinoza? vraag aan het Amsterdamse publiek gesteld. Aan het Damrak, vlak voor het Centraal Station, worden voorbijgangers gevraagd: 'Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf...

  • Visual Identity

    Georgia

    Here you'll find the Mediamatic Huisstijlhandboek (styleguide) with some good examples, and insightful remarks. Based the works of Abel van Gijlswijk, Mediamatic's star designer. Few key points to...

  • Bacterial ink

    Growing black ink out of Janthinobacterium lividum

    The genus name, Janthinobacterium, comes from Latin janthinus, which means "violet" or "violet-blue" + bacterium, which means rod or staff. The species name is also from Latin, lividum, which means...

  • “You are a Terrorist”

    Terrorist is one of the things the prime minister called the protestors. The idea is to have posters with slanderous slogans and then explanations in a smaller font below.

  • Open huis bij PLATFORM 21

    Platform 21 wordt een internationaal werkeiland voor mode, design en creatie. Het is de bedoeling dat de St.-Nicolaaskapel aan de Prinses Irenestraat 19 wordt verbouwd als tijdelijke locatie voor...

  • An interview with Lynn Amhaz

    Homesick for Noord

    We met with Lynn Amhaz, who is part of the Mapping for Tourists travel guide design team.
  • Persaandacht

    El HEMA in de media

    Televisie, radio, kranten en andere media

    Overzicht van media-aandacht voor El HEMA.

  • Waarom is kannibalisme eigenlijk slecht?

    Girls T-shirt Magenta

    Waarom is kannibalisme eigenlijk slecht? Exclusief fashion item, beperkte oplage. Color: Magenta Women Sizes: S, M, L, XL Material: 100% organic cotton

  • Zedz workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Zedz designs a coffin that expresses the individuality of the loved one.
  • Location

    Igloolik, Canada

    Igloolik is an Inuit hamlet, of the Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, in northern Canada. Igloolik is home to Artcirq , IsumaTV and Isuma Productions Inc.
  • Book: Dürer, Albrecht 1 Jan 1965

    Of the Just Shaping of Letters

    de oorspron- kelijke Latijnse text komt uit 1535
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1992

    Famous Artists School, Famous Writer Tool

    or: the hankering after a configurated system for the Apple and other rhetorical reflections

    In Mediamatic 6#1, Paul Groot reported on his first experiences with a word processor and his struggle with the McHugh. As a sequel to these first impressions, he will review here MicroSoft's Word5...

  • Jarr and his Finish Flag

    What have people been bringing to our resistance archive?

    In this ongoing series, Objects and their People, we'll be writing about our favourite resistance objects, anecdotes and people. Keep up with what is happening in the Pièce de Résistance exhibition...
  • Book: Jeremy Adler 1 Jan 1987

    Text als Figur

    Visuelle Poesie von der Antike bis zur Moderne

    The design from the word to the page.

  • Gentrification Battlefield

    The non-Noorderner is advancing in Amsterdam-Noord. Ten years ago only the occasional explorer would dare to cross the water, taking a headquarters in an old conquered warehouse on the NDSM-wharf.

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