jist

Here's a collective of random design/art stuff I found on the net

1. UNICEF's Fifty Designers' Current Favourite Typefaces:
   £3 - You get the book with the samples, the money goes to charity.
   
   
2. i catalyst:
   Collective of Contemporary Egyptian Visual Art, quite experimental and very eye-pleasing
   The group of artists involved include: Kareem Lotfy, George Azmy, Ahmad Hefnawy and more. Mohamad A. Fahmy of Ganzeer participated in their event "Breaking Boredom"
   
   
   
   
3. BOQ بوق:
   Yet another from Egypt, a blogozine titled "Boq"
   
   
   

Syntaxification

So, to those who don't know already - this is my Week 2 working with Syntax. I'm really enjoying it, and I'm loving the atmosphere and all. I'm quite finding a hard time shifting from being a very experimental illustrator to be more clean cut and be respectful to design rules (and rulers, lol)

bass, so yeah - Syntaxer is the title I suppose :)

Done?

El naas b 3amman ba6alat te3raf te7ki 3ARABI

Ishi be7azzen.

back in Amman

I'm back in Amman, but is it for good? Only fate knows - because I don't know if I will be spending yet another year in London studying or I'm done with it..

Leaving Chepstow (the halls/dorms I lived in last year) was quite emotional - It was more like a wrap up for me to be leaving the country. All the good things almost happened to me there, I got to know a lot about Omar and other people surrounding me - and never to forget the hours spent with friends in my room (or Brunel in general) and all the memories connected to each corner...

I will definitely miss Brunel, and I came to realise that my best days are my Brunel days. I am back in Amman - a lot of change happening in my life and I'm trying to adapt to it. I want to thank my friends for the smiles, laughs, wall-bangs, neighbours, munchies, dances & good times I had.

photos: my prayer mat before sunset in my chepstow room / my room getting packed and cleared

My Identity

I'm an Liberal Arab Nationalist, a Progressive Muslim who supports Secularism in the seek for the good of the countries.

And please don't preach to me about the 'evils' that lie under the self identification as "nationalist" - it shouldn't in no sense mean that it embraces the fabricated concepts of I'm-better-than-you racist undertones,

+ If we can't unite politically, and we care so much about borders and land, then I'm sure we can unite culturally and in different forms of expression (i.e. art).

What is your identity?

FontStruct: Everybody's a Typographer?

I was a tad excited to see that there's an online software/interactive system that allows you to develop types without downloading some Trial version of a huge software onto your system. I personally don't know much about Typography, I admire it, and I think if I delve into it I'll be hugely interested yet I still didn't get to this point - still an illustration sucker.

The website FontShop, one of the leading Fonts/Typography networks out there created FontStruct - a website that allows you to build, share and download fonts created using "FontStructor"; Developed by Rob Meek.

So I went ahead, signed up to the site and started fiddling around until to my surprise I see that they support a number of different languages/letter sets. And ta-da! There lies "Arabic". I clicked on it and started looking at the set of letters they had, though it included characters which would never be used in Arabic scripts but still, I quite liked it! Though some characters didn't show up to me.

Here's my trial, but then to find out I've added a hamza to a hamza-less Alef! Forgiveness, I'm erasing the hamza!

(click to enlarge)

I think it's quite revolutionary to be honest, I'm clueless if such projects been created before (and if so, please inform me) but I really like the whole feel to FontStruct and I believe it's a good

platform for budding Typographers - and even those who just have general interest - to develop and get good exposure.

Go ahead, fiddle with it, and make it your daily meal of font creation :)

what i've been doing

well, in little words; spending most of my time in the library "trying" to study
exams will be done on the 15th, dissertation results on the 16th.

wa7ad w 3eshreen

i'm 21 today *burp*

will post later about the partay ;D

after 3 years...

of education in the UK, the Arab in me still in full galore when it comes to tybos (typos) on Word.

I'm hours away from submitting my dissertation, wish me luck!

rephrase

When you're asked to reference an article, study, journal or book you're usually required to rephrase. Yet I didn't come to the point where my grammar knowledge is failing me (I blame my school, we were barely taught any grammar, grr). Which one of the following is correct?

• There are a number of different types of design methodologies
• There is a number of different types of design methodologies

Does the 'are' belong to the "methodologies" or does the 'is' relate to "a number"? Can you Englishsters help me out please?

Kids don't fornicate! The label "fuck" is related to my university, I'm still working on my damn dissertation and I'm still not done (deadline: Monday the 7th).