News Archive 2007
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Project
A turning point for Arabic typography and design
Report on the Khatt Kufi & Kaffiya symposium and the Typographic Matchmaking project presentations.
The Typographic Matchmaking project ( Arabic fonts and book ), the Khatt online community (www.khtt.net), the Khatt Kufi and Kaffiya ...
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event : Amsterdam, Khatt Foundation
Khatt Fonts
Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut
15 Dec 2007 19:30–22 Dec 2007 11:55
Please join us in Beirut for the opening, if you can. Arabic type, book launch and art exhibition. 15 Lebanese designers and visual ...
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Amsterdam, Stichting Mediamatic
New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers and captains of industry
El-HEMA Exhibition at Mediamatic
Good graphic design still creates a very powerful image. Sometimes even up to a level that it may mislead and subsequently embarrass ...
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Article
Art museum projects in the Middle East
Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated)
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event : The Aga Khan Foundation
Another Arabic Cliche Exhibition
The Spirit & Life exhibition, Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection
14 July 2007–31 Aug 2007
Location: Ismaili Centre, London. Until 31 August 2007. The Khatt Foundation is not alone in its strife to present a better image of ...
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Arabic vintage cassettes
interesting calligraphy on old cassettes!
Back when people seriously cared about content rather than shape, about the heart rather than the peel, about the insides rather than ...
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event
Mehdi Saeedi won “Grand Prize: US$10,000” at the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007.
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Article
mixing tradition and globart street trends
Sanaa's streets are filled with very tasteful examples of a Arabic/western fashion fusion
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book
a graphic manifesto and autobiography
"Jonathan Barnbrook’s new book, Barnbrook Bible, ranks amongst the most ambitious personal projects undertaken by any graphic ...
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Arabic in its many guises
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event
The Spirit & Life exhibition
It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic ...
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event : Rotterdam, TENT.
Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!
Just how 'Dutch' is Dutch design?
20 Sept 2007 20
Is Dutch Design an international language, or should it be more representative of our cosmopolitan society? An evening on cross-cultural ...
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Saudi Visual Communication
There are certain things about Saudi Arabia that really make it seem out of this world. To list the obvious: woman are not allowed to ...
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Book
talib type
tbp [to be published] April 08
I for one am weary of the East and West being presented within the frame of what we can learn from one another, sitting at a table and ...
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event : Santiago De Compostela, AMAL 007
From The Middle East with Love
AMAL 007, The Arab Film Festival
22 Oct 2007 20–31 Oct 2007 00
A special program on video art form the Middle East curated by Khaled Ramadan. Presented by the lecture "Independent video-making ...
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Publication
Online Visual PDF Magazine For Arab Artists
SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, ...
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review
Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some ...
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article
Arabic geometry in contemporary architecture
Traditionally, geometric decorations play an important role in Arabic visual culture and Islamic art. Buildings often carry geometric ...
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El HEMA got awarded the Dutch Design Prize!
We are pleased to announce that the 'El HEMA' exhibition was awarded the Best Dutch Design Awards 2007 in the visual identity category, ...
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event
El Hema design competition
This pillowcase is the submission from Nellie Keijzer for the El Hema design competition. It's an abstract translation of the concept ...
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Article
Dubai's First Gulf Art Fair
Held in Dubai in early March, the Gulf Art Fair was the first international art fair to take place in the Middle East.
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event : khatt kufi & kaffiya
From Amulet to Art Nouveau
a Thousand Years of Arab-European Exchange in Printing and Book Design
24 Aug 2007 13:50
The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of technology, imagery and design. The Arabs ...
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event : Alexandria, ACAF
Two Film Projects by Carlo Zanni
25 Dec 2007–2 Jan 2008
Multipistes a multi-stage collaborative contemporary arts project www.multipistes.org and Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) ...
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Article : Moutamarat
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.
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event : Rotterdam, TENT.
Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!
Just how 'Dutch' is Dutch design?
20 Sept 2007 20
Is Dutch Design an international language, or should it be more representative of our cosmopolitan society? An evening on cross-cultural ...
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news
New fashion, a colorful mix of Emirati visual icons.
Attempting to express oneself is of course a universal human endeavor. In rather conservative social environments this natural tendency ...
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review
Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some ...
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event : Dubai, The Third Line gallery
Life Drawing
Figurative practises by Neda Hadizadeh, Ghadah Al Kandari, Hayv Kahraman and Lamya Gargash
20 Dec 2007–10 Jan 2008
The Third Line is proud to present Life Drawing, Figurative Practises by Neda Hadizadeh, Ghadah Al Kandari, Hayv Kahraman and Lamya ...
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event : Xanadu*
More Light Than Death Could Bear
a poetry book by Hind Shoufani
8 Sept 2007 21:00
In the spirit of believing that poetry can be sound, light, texture, images- and possibly scent- xanadu* hosted a multi-faceted launch ...
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event
Mehdi Saeedi won “Grand Prize: US$10,000” at the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007.
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news
a new cancer awareness in the region
Taken from the New York Times website.
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Caracalla Dance Theater
The Lebanese Abdel-Halim Caracalla has tried to create a new language in dance with a style based on the amalgamation of the Western and ...
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Article
Art museum projects in the Middle East
Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated)
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Blouzaat: urban art's wearable expressions
a view into the new urban art revolution in Jordan
It's always a disappointment to us art appreciators and artists when we go into stores to buy a t-shirt and find these extremely tacky, ...
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The new generation of Iranian graphic designers and the 5th Color
Bijan Sayfouri's speech in the opening of the 40+40 poster exhibition, castel of Trani, Italy, 2004
