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  • The Third Line gallery

    Fabricated

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    Oca 2008
    14
    Şub 2008
    - painted material by Pouran Jinchi

    The Third Line and Banana Republic present Fabricated: painted works by Pouran Junchi. Jinchi’s new works are a pastiche of various multi-coloured, patterned and branded fabrics that form a line of...
  • Aesthetics
  • exhibition
  • vernacular
  • cross cultural
  • identity
  • Fashion

  • 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
  • Article Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

    International Design Forum, in Dubai

    Moutamarat's first annual design forum in Dubai.

    Dubai. May 27 - 29, 2007. Promoting design as a critical tool for cultural understanding and commercial excellence.
  • 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

  • Nazar

    Photographs From The Arab World

    Edited by Wim Melis. Essays by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Issam Nassar, Isolde Brielmaier, Issa Touma, Peter Lewis and Sherifa Zuhur.

  • Symposium Program

    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture

    We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp. We'll have...

  • 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
  • conference program

    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium…

    Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.

    The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going beyond the stereotypes of what is associated with Arabic culture...
  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

    Fedra Arabic: balancing legibility with…

    New Arabic companion to the Fedra font family

    This project is a collaboration between the renown type designer, Peter Bilak, and the Arab type designer Tarek Atrissi.

  • 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.

  • Mediamatic Post CS

    Office and exhibition space 2004 - 2008

    Mediamatic moved into Post CS in 2004. We moved out in July 2008.

  • Khatt projects

    We live to work!

    Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
  • animation film Edo Smitshuijzen

    Persepolis, story of an Iranian childhood

    An animated biography of an Iranian woman

    Sometimes the story about important developments in the Arab world are best told by reports about personal experiences. And sometimes the narrative can be more poignant when represented in a simple...

  • The Current Market for Arabic Fonts

    Recent Developments and Consumer Needs

    The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly inspired by recent technology developments, globalization and the growth of the Arab graphic design...

  • 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.

  • The Enchanted Canary*

    Contemporary Arabic Children's Books

    'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?' 'I will tell you,' answered Désiré, 'though most likely you will laugh at me. I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was...

  • 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

  • Arabische car-kit

    hoofddoek heeft een slimme praktische kant

    Toen ik vandaag van de supermarkt kwam, zag ik een vrouw met een zwart hoofddoekje achter het stuur zitten van haar volkswagen golf.

  • Another Arabic Cliche Exhibition

    The Spirit & Life exhibition, Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection

    Location: Ismaili Centre, London. Until 31 August 2007. The Khatt Foundation is not alone in its strife to present a better image of Arab culture to western audiences. Many organizations see the need...

  • International Design Forum, in Dubai

    Moutamarat's first annual design forum in Dubai.

    Dubai. May 27 - 29, 2007. Promoting design as a critical tool for cultural understanding and commercial excellence.
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie Bogomir Doringer

    Deranged

    Graduation project, Interactive video installation

    Black Hair Vs. White Complexion: Arranged or “Deranged”? (An Essay by Mr. Zlatan Gruborovic, Ph.D.) In his latest interactive (reactive) installation project entitled “DERANGED” Mr. Doringer explores...

  • European Creative Industries@PICNIC

    Vision, Strategic Agenda, Work

    IIP CREATE, the innovation platform of the Dutch ICT/Media Creative Industries, is grasping the opportunity of this year’s international PICNIC event to invite leading European IT/Media Creative...

  • Grow your clothing

    Bio-Couture : bacterial-cellulose textile is the fashion of the future

    What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture...

  • Typographic Matchmaking Pilot Project

  • FUTUROTEXTIEL

    tot kunst verweven

    Scenografie van de tentoonstelling door Studio Arne Quinze BROELMUSEUM – Broeikaai 6- 8500 Kortrijk HALL NMBS- Magdalenastraat – 8500 Kortrijk 09.10.08 tot 7.12.08 Dinsdag tot zondag 11.00 tot 17.00...

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