The Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography is a cultural foundation dedicated to advancing design research and typography in the MENA regions.
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Excellent course judging by the students' high quality fonts produced during the course. I know because I did a guest critique at the end of the previous course. Highly recommended.
Last chance to join my new type design class starting tomorrow!
Sign up here so we get to draw together!
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huda abifares retweeted
بين دروب الرياض وروح المدينة.. لقطات ختامية لـ #معرض_رحلة_الكتابة_والخط "دروب الروح".
#الفعاليات_الثقافية
huda abifares retweeted
Mark your calendar for the 20th anniversary of Tasmeem Doha, our international, biennial art and design conference.
This year’s Tasmeem Doha is titled, ‘Under Construction” and it will take place on March 2-5.
Save the date! We can’t wait!
More details to follow!
huda abifares retweeted
NEW on our library shelves—The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. by Hala Auji, Raphael Cormack (@RaphaelCormack), and Alaaeldin Mahmoud (@aladdin_mahmoud) (@ibtauris, 2024): shorturl.at/aHQR1
huda abifares retweeted
Dear friends in Cairo. I would be delighted to see you in my lecture at AUC Tahrir Campus on January 27. Those who can listen to me twice in 2 days, please remember my lecture on al-Maqrizi on January 28 at Bayt al-Sinnari (in Arabic) at 6 as well.
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[EN] Dear friends,
It seems to me more difficult every year to send you our wishes without thinking about this world. The planet and its inhabitants suffer crisis after crisis, health, economic, social and climate. 1/
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Words from James Thomson, Scottish poet, as used for Neuland Claro in the Spanish Gebr. Klingspor specimen by Fundición Tipográfica.
New typeface ⭐️ Koch Lichte Grotesk by Rudolf Koch, Edvinas Žukauskas and Jérôme Knebusch
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Born in Gaza - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2023/12/28/…
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In fact, the fact that everything was mixed with letters shows the strong role of letters in the thoughts of creators. Today, an illustrator may not be familiar with letters, but as we move back in history, this connection is very strong.
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Some people only have time for long reads on the weekend so I'm sharing what may be the most important article of this blood-soaked onslaught:
"'A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza" 972mag.com/mass-assassinatio…
huda abifares retweeted
For the 13th time, we are calling out to the world: GIVE VOICE TO TYPE! GRANSHAN is happy to announce that the Type Design Competition is now open. Join the world's only professional competition focused on typefaces covering scripts beyond Latin. buff.ly/3QWdZqc
huda abifares retweeted
🕓 4:00-6:00 PM: Diversity & Innovation in Type 🌐
Hrant Papazian: "Planting Seeds of Diversity" #TypeDiversity
Yara Khoury: "An Arabic Type Research Center" #ArabicDesign
Peter Bilak: "Giving Voice to People" #InclusiveDesign
Zhao Liu & Kushim Jiang: "Oracle-Bone Script Design"
huda abifares retweeted
Hi everyone, I have now become a co-chair of the Granshan Competition! I have so much to learn to live up to his name and foundation we now stand upon. And I’m looking forward to see fresh submissions!
We warmly welcome Toshi Omagari in his role as Co-Chairperson of the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition alongside Veronika Burian. Welcome to GRANSHAN!
#typecompetition #fontcompetition #typedesign #globaltype #identity #culture
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@khttnet - Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews UAE-based design studio Mobius Studio and its founders, graphic designers Hala Al-Ani, Hadeyeh Badri and Riem Hassan ⤵️🧵
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Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Mohammed Shennawy youtu.be/Cp9WSDe7o9Q?si=FOQm… via @YouTube
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We warmly welcome an exciting new Script Group: With Georgian we are once again integrating a cultural identity characterised by script. We are also expanding the Script Group Thai to include Burmese, Khmer and Lao – and have renamed it to South East Asian Script Group.
huda abifares retweeted
I'm happy to be taking part of the Face/Interface conference being held at Stanford, especially as I will be talking about a new typeface inspired by an Early Kufi manuscript.
My talk is Friday at 10:05am PST
You can sign up for online viewing here:
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