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My Amman: re-discovering, re-engaging, re-connecting our city

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

My AmmanView more documents from SYNTAX.

I had the pleasure of being invited by Jordanian social entrepreneur (and self proclaimed “doctor of companies, governments and peoples”) Maher Kaddoura, to give a talk about ‘My Amman’ at the pilot of NewThink, an initiative to spread a culture of positive action, a can-do attitude and entrepreneurship [...]

Amman’s most colorful day: a city no longer ashamed of itself!

Monday, October 12th, 2009

For the past two years, the subject of Amman has been unavoidable for me. Not only do I live in this city, but I’ve also been, with my company SYNTAX, involved in the first big branding effort this city has undertaken. I am overdosed on Amman! The branding project has been completed but writing about [...]

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 [...]

Amman’s new brand starts making an appearance

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Earlier this year, SYNTAX delivered the brand guidelines of the new Amman Brand to the Greater Municipality of Amman, which was the final delivery of a project that kept us totally immersed in Amman, its history, its people and its character for well over year. It was an intensive process of discovery, research, conceptualization, writing, [...]

SYNTAX seeking Business development wizard in the UAE

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

SYNTAX is shifting gears. If you are a business development wizard, but also a passionate believer that design can save the world, then you might want to check out this announcement on the SYNTAX blog.

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. [...]