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News Archive 2007

  • Project

    A turning point for Arabic typography and design

    Report on the Khatt Kufi & Kaffiya symposium and the Typographic Matchmaking project presentations.

    Edo Smitshuijzen, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    The Typographic Matchmaking project ( Arabic fonts and book ), the Khatt online community (www.khtt.net), the Khatt Kufi and Kaffiya ...

  • event : Amsterdam, Khatt Foundation

    Khatt Fonts

    Matchmaking Amsterdam-Beirut

    15 Dec 2007 19:3022 Dec 2007 11:55

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    Please join us in Beirut for the opening, if you can. Arabic type, book launch and art exhibition. 15 Lebanese designers and visual ...

  • Amsterdam, Stichting Mediamatic

    New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers and captains of industry

    El-HEMA Exhibition at Mediamatic

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Good graphic design still creates a very powerful image. Sometimes even up to a level that it may mislead and subsequently embarrass ...

  • Article

    Art museum projects in the Middle East

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated)

  • 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 200731 Aug 2007

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Location: Ismaili Centre, London. Until 31 August 2007. The Khatt Foundation is not alone in its strife to present a better image of ...

  • Arabic vintage cassettes

    interesting calligraphy on old cassettes!

    Omar Al-Zo'bi –

    Back when people seriously cared about content rather than shape, about the heart rather than the peel, about the insides rather than ...

  • event

    Mehdi Saeedi won “Grand Prize: US$10,000” at the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007.

    Mehdi Saeedi

  • Article

    mixing tradition and globart street trends

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Sanaa's streets are filled with very tasteful examples of a Arabic/western fashion fusion

  • book

    a graphic manifesto and autobiography

    "Jonathan Barnbrook’s new book, Barnbrook Bible, ranks amongst the most ambitious personal projects undertaken by any graphic ...

  • Arabic in its many guises

    Christine Eid

  • event

    The Spirit & Life exhibition

    Dr Geoffrey Roper –

    It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic ...

  • 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 ...

  • Saudi Visual Communication

    Hani Alireza –

    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 ...

  • Book

    talib type

    tbp [to be published] April 08

    Raymond Prucher –

    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 ...

  • event : Santiago De Compostela, AMAL 007

    From The Middle East with Love

    AMAL 007, The Arab Film Festival

    22 Oct 2007 2031 Oct 2007 00

    Khaled Ramadan –

    A special program on video art form the Middle East curated by Khaled Ramadan. Presented by the lecture "Independent video-making ...

  • Publication

    Online Visual PDF Magazine For Arab Artists

    Mohammed Fahmy –

    SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, ...

  • review

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some ...

  • article

    Arabic geometry in contemporary architecture

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Traditionally, geometric decorations play an important role in Arabic visual culture and Islamic art. Buildings often carry geometric ...

  • El HEMA got awarded the Dutch Design Prize!

    Willem Velthoven –

    We are pleased to announce that the 'El HEMA' exhibition was awarded the Best Dutch Design Awards 2007 in the visual identity category, ...

  • event

    El Hema design competition

    Nellie Keijzer –

    This pillowcase is the submission from Nellie Keijzer for the El Hema design competition. It's an abstract translation of the concept ...

  • 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.

  • 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

    Dr Geoffrey Roper –

    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 ...

  • event : Alexandria, ACAF

    Two Film Projects by Carlo Zanni

    25 Dec 20072 Jan 2008

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Bassam El Baroni –

    Multipistes a multi-stage collaborative contemporary arts project www.multipistes.org and Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) ...

  • Article : Moutamarat

    International Design Forum, in Dubai

    Moutamarat's first annual design forum in Dubai.

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

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

  • 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 ...

  • news

    New fashion, a colorful mix of Emirati visual icons.

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    Attempting to express oneself is of course a universal human endeavor. In rather conservative social environments this natural tendency ...

  • review

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Winsoft is a French company that produces all the specific Arabic ME (Middle East) versions of the Adobe software collection. For some ...

  • event : Dubai, The Third Line gallery

    Life Drawing

    Figurative practises by Neda Hadizadeh, Ghadah Al Kandari, Hayv Kahraman and Lamya Gargash

    20 Dec 200710 Jan 2008

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    The Third Line is proud to present Life Drawing, Figurative Practises by Neda Hadizadeh, Ghadah Al Kandari, Hayv Kahraman and Lamya ...

  • event : Xanadu*

    More Light Than Death Could Bear

    a poetry book by Hind Shoufani

    8 Sept 2007 21:00

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    In the spirit of believing that poetry can be sound, light, texture, images- and possibly scent- xanadu* hosted a multi-faceted launch ...

  • event

    Mehdi Saeedi won “Grand Prize: US$10,000” at the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007.

    Mehdi Saeedi

  • news

    a new cancer awareness in the region

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Taken from the New York Times website.

  • Caracalla Dance Theater

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    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 ...

  • Article

    Art museum projects in the Middle East

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    Prestigious museum projects are under way in the Gulf States (updated)

  • Blouzaat: urban art's wearable expressions

    a view into the new urban art revolution in Jordan

    Omar Al-Zo'bi –

    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, ...

  • 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

    Bijan Sayfouri