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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

An Arabic edition of the the famous Italian Arachitecture and Design journal “Domus”. Now that’s interesting.

My first encounter with Domus was during the days of my architectural studies in the early 1990’s. So it was a really pleasant surprise when I saw the first issue of Domus in Arabic on a newsstand in Abu Dhabi [...]

From Gary Hustwit, the maker of the film Helvetica (yes a film about a typeface, and a really good one at that) comes Objectified, a highly anticipated documentary about design, particularly product design. It features some of the world’s most famous industrial designers such as Karim Rashid, Jonathan Ive (Apple) and David Kelly (Ideo)

What’s interesting [...]