SYNTAX and Al-Balad Theater present:“The New (Type)face of Amman”German type-design rising star Yanone will be telling the story of his Amman typeface, created for the Amman Municipality’s “Amman Brand” project in collaboration with SYNTAX.The result of this project is now “FF Amman”, a professional typeface marketed worldwide by FontShop, as one of largest bilingual font [...]

Nothing like being able to start showing people what I’ve been immersed in the past few months! It’s been a crazy journey for the team at SYNTAX and Spring and it will only get crazier.

What was a sketchy idea a few months ago has turned into a full fledged project with a powerful vision: building [...]

When the self proclaimed “Sheikh of Amman” comes walking through the door at the SYNTAX offices, its not an ordinary day, especially when he comes unannounced.

It’s now over 21 years that I’ve met Ali Maher for the first time, on my first day of being an Architecture student at the University in Jordan, sometime around [...]

We’re SYNTAX. And we create junk.

Celebrating 12 years of junk production. And 10 years of accumulating it in one office.

We’re spring cleaning. Read more in the SYNTAX:CONTEXT blog.

Photo: Dina Haddadin

House 28 on the corner of Rainbow Street is in a state of flux.

The old landlady and her old, bed-ridden husband have passed away. It seems like yesterday she was showing Ahmad Sabbagh and me through the apartment under the main house. That apartment became what I called the “SYNTAX house”. A succession [...]

Check this out: the sweat and tears (almost) that the SYNTAX (and Spring) team poured into the Amman Centennial website paid off in a new way. It was a nice surprise that we won the Jordan Web Awards best site of 2009 prize.

But there’s a catch: the trophy was so damn heavy, my arm almost [...]

For me, design and writing are the same thing, and I do quite a lot of both. Sometimes I tell people that what got me into design was some weird passion for publishing (like doing a newsletter for our household when I was aged 12 or something like that).

At our company SYNTAX, content and communication [...]