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Title |
Typographic Matchmaking 01, Building
cultural bridges with typeface design |
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Author |
Huda
Smitshuijzen AbiFares |
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A brief |
10 Arab and
Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for
Dutch fonts.The Typographic Matchmaking project was initiated by the Khatt
Foundation (Amsterdam), in April 2005. The Khatt Foundation
selected and invited five renown Dutch designers and matched
each one of them with an established and upcoming Arab designer.
The aim was to facilitate a collaboration bewteen the Dutch and
Arab designers in order to design Arabic typefaces that match
and can become part of the font family of one of the Dutch
designers’ existing font families. The main thrust of the
project is to address the modernisation of Arabic text faces
that can provide design solutions for legible Arabic fonts that
answer the contemporary design needs in the Arab world (namely
for publications and new digital media applications).
The results and design process of this cross-cultural
collaborative project will be published in a book by the same
title (by BIS publishers in Amsterdam, by August 2007). |
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Title |
History of Arabic Type Evolution from the 1930’s till present |
|
Author |
Pascal Zoghbi |
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A brief |
Brief History
of Arabic Type from the 30's till present time.The article
consist of:
1. Brief history of the traditional arabic type, 2.
Brief aspects of arabic type, 3. The modern history of arabic
type from the 30’s till present, 4. What is the future of arabic
typefaces? and 5, Independent arabic type designers and arabic
type foundries. |
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Title |
Typographic Matchmaking: Arabic type with a Dutch flavor |
|
Author |
Huda
Smitshuijzen AbiFares |
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A brief |
The long
awaited ‘Typographic Matchmaking’ Book will be launched at a
symposium and exhibition at Mediamatic in Amsterdam on the 24th
of August 2007.The project began with the idea of creating Arabic type with a
Dutch flavor in order to bring the high quality of Dutch type
design to the rather underdeveloped Arabic design tradition. |
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Title |
Arabic calligraphy: Written by hand or type set on the computer |
|
Author |
Pascal Zoghbi |
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A brief |
What is the
future of the Craftsmanship of the Arabic calligraphy?
Will new technologies in Arabic type setting bring an end to the
craftsmanship?
What kind of new Arabic fonts do we need for the Arabic market? |
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Title |
Generating Arabic fonts |
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Author |
Pascal Zoghbi |
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A brief |
Developing and
generating Arabic fonts is not as easy and straightforward as
for Latin fonts.This article will cover Encoding, Glyph and Font
naming, OpenType features and other topics concerning the
preparation of an Arabic font before generating it. |
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Title |
Politics by means of Arabic Type |
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Author |
Pascal Zoghbi |
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A brief |
Contemporary
Arabic type used for political propaganda in Lebanon. |
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