Archive for the 'Design' Category

Experience Amman and its story: the most comprehensive city history site ever

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

It’s been a long time in the making, but now its here.

Never before has Amman’s story been presented to its citizens and guest so vividly and comprehensively. It’s still a work in progress that Ammanis and their guest will complete in the coming months and years. I am talking about the Amman Centennial website, branded [...]

“Migrating to the Mac feels like immigrating to a first world nation”

Monday, September 14th, 2009

A Facebook update by my friend Bilal Hijjawi inspired this “360east imitation”
Click to enlarge a little bit

Back to School (and the horrible schoolbooks Jordan’s children are given)

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Can a schoolbook cover look more depressing? A miserable boy, asleep at the desk, writing in his copy-book, ink bottle by his side.

I want you to feast your eyes on the the photo above and the eleven other examples from 3rd grade government curricula schoolbooks, which I photographed three years ago (but always kept postponing [...]

Spotted: A neat prototype of Amman’s new bus shelters

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, as I was driving up from Ras AL Ein to the the 3rd Circle, I noticed something interesting on the street. Apparently this is the first prototype of Amman’s new bus shelters. I stopped the car, then waited (quite a bit) for the two ladies sitting there to get on [...]

SYNTAX scraps its website, replacing it with one lousy web page

Monday, August 17th, 2009

At SYNTAX, we’re the kind of people who’d make fun of companies and government departments who don’t update their websites. If you hire us, we’d lecture you for hours about the importance of “staffing your website” with people who can communicate on the web and keep your website fresh and updated. We’d also point out [...]

A video from 2004.. I can’t believe half a decade passed!

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

While doing some searching on the web, I chanced upon a very low budget (no budget!) video that I created for the Immedia 2004 conference. This is something I even blogged about in the early days of 360east.

I watched the video with amusement. A number of familiar faces are featured. [...]

360east 24HRS Abu Dhabi

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009