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Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares
Typographer, graphic designer, researcher and writer.
Working with whatever means and talent I have to make design a meaningful and positive part of people's lives (specially in the Arab world).
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Festival: Arnhem
Arhem Mode Biennale
1jun 2007- Fashion in Arnhem30jun 2007A collection of shows, exhibitions and parties with artists ...And Beyond, Bas Kosters, Capricious, Dan Gonen, Emmeline de Mooij, John Galliano, Niels Klavers & Astrid van Engelen, Viktor & Rolf and...
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Exhibition: W139
Optimizer/Evolzier
16mrt 2007- W139 presenteert video animaties van Jan van Nuenen15apr 2007Een solotentoonstelling met 7 video animaties van Jan van Nuenen + de première van EVOLIZER (2006/2007 digitale animatie, 15 minuten) Jan van Nuenen werkt.
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Party: De Kring
"Star/Tek Vol II"
24mrt 2007- VOL II van dit “Party Statement”25mrt 2007Star/Tek Vol II Ditmaal slaat Star/Tek haar warme vleugels om de intieme en exclusieve Sociëteit “De Kring” op het Leidseplein in Amsterdam.
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Festival: Het Ketelhuis
The One Minutes Festival 2006
17nov 2006- Viewpoints on the world.19nov 2006The One Minutes Festival at het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam.
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Exhibition: Galerie Fons Welters
Lukasz Skapski - Machines
21okt 2006- Nieuwe expositie bij Fons Welters18nov 2006It is to document about 150 of tractors constructed by farmers from Podhale in southern Poland. This work is made of photographs showing the vehicles in different shots and of films with farmers...
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Exhibition: Witte de With, De Appel
Street:
8sep 2006- Behind the Cliché8nov 2006Take a bus from Amsterdam to Rotterdam and back again for the dual Appel/ Witte de With opening. Curated by Renske Janssen and Nicolaus Schafhausen on the other kinds of street art.
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Fred Smeijers
Type designer & professor
Works as a type designer, researcher and writer.
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Party: NDSM-Werf
PUTSCH
- more pick up parties12aug 2006An evening of attack with Sascha Funke (bpitchcontrol), Herr Arter, DJ Lupe and Eva Maria.
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Performance: Sigmund Stern Grove
Possokhov, Tomasson, Caniparoli
- San Francisco Ballet13aug 2006Stern Grove aims at bringing various cultural performances to a broader audience by making everything free. The San Francisco Ballet will perform as part of the Stern Grove Festival on the 13th of...
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Festival: Den Haag, Nederland
Todaysart
22sep 2006- As boring as you are...23sep 2006On music/ performing arts/ fine art, with the confirmed artists including the Japanese twins Eru & Emu who will co-host a stage together with the basterdized dutch art collective Antistrot, United...
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Exhibition: the Dutch influence on Arabic type
Dutch designers' involvement in the production of Arabic printing types from the 17thC to present day
A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and tolerance between the West and the Arab world.
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The Kitabat conference
5apr 2006- The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.8apr 2006Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in partnership with the Khatt Foundation (Center for Arabic Typography, Amsterdam) and Linotype GmBH (Germany), and...
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Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares
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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Khatt projects
We live to work!
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
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Festival: Centraal Museum
The Great Outdoors
23aug 2006- Impakt Festival 200627aug 2006This year's impakt festival will take place outdoors: in the garden of the Centraal Museum. The central themes of the festival are thus open air, experience and interaction. Featured artists...
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Leidseplein
05 days off
12jul 2006- you need them for sleep16jul 2006Another 5 nights of dancing your feet of with Ellen Allien & Apparat (live), DJ Food, Maximo Park, Riyoji Ikeda and of course 2 many DJs... and many others.
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Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
International Jew's Harp Festival
28jun 2006- the fifth to date30jun 2006Three days dedicated to the sophisticated art of the jew's harp. With workshops, international jew's harp artists and more jew's harp joy.
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Studio 80
Other stuff to dance to
- electronica/ breaks and IDM?8jun 2006with NANKO (brian eno meets aphex twin?), SALVADOR (resident), and the humanworkshop boys BASIC and REMUS (afrotronica and cinematic drill n bass).
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Montreal, Canada
MUTEK
31mei 2006- ...and you will know us by the trail of cable4jun 2006Jackson & His Compter Band, Deadbeat, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Mossa, Jan Jelinek, Bones, Eliot Lipp and Richie Hawtin will all grace the Canadian minimalist music festival this year.
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Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina
Open House
20mei 2006- She May Break21mei 2006The studios of cafe pakhuis wilhelmina will be opened for the general public starting at noon, followed by an evening of breakbeats.
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STEIM
Beyond Hacking
31mei 2006- building new instruments3jun 2006A workshop in which you create your own instruments with the CREATE USB interface with Dan Overholt and Daniel Schorno. For anyone interested in the possibilities of electronics and sensors in an...
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Frascati
STEIM goes Frascati
- More space for pirate songs, please.3apr 2006SKIF++ (Jeff Carey, Robert van Heumen and Bas van Koolwijk) bring us more joystick happy max/msp and LiSa mashups, Kevin Blechdom came to town to sing us some computerized banjopop and Werner...