MEDIA | Ahmad Humeid goes airwave surfing

It started when I was trying to find an empty frequency on my wife’s car radio. She has an iPod that she would like to listen to in the car, so I got her a little FM transmitter (called the iTrip) that can transmit audio to a car radio.

I [...]

Osman Akuz is one of Jordan’s most renowned photographers. Over the decades he amassed an absolutely HUGE collection of photos from Jordan and the Middle East covering a wide spectrum from artistic to industrial photography.

When we, people in the design, advertising and media business think of Osman we realize that he’s a figure who’s been [...]

Over the past few days I was in email contact with Jeff Cavanaugh from the US based media firm Creative Armada. We had an interesting discussion as he was setting up an interview with a musician guest over a VoIP phone connection, for inclusion in his music podcast Armada Sound System. He found my blog [...]

The Aqaba tourism brand that SYNTAX developed earlier in 2005 is starting to make an appearance. This is an ad campaign for Aqaba’s Ramadan nights that we designed and that made its debut in the papers today.

Also watch out for the Aqaba.jo that Batelco are designing, based on our brand guidelines.

This campaign for the ‘Aman’ Orphan’s Future organization is using my ‘Ahmad’ in a pretty good way. Al-Ghad newspaper also uses the font for the headlines of its special supplements.

Welcome to the world’s first Ramadan cast, almost live from my car! Well, actually it’s more like 15 minutes of random thoughts around Ramadan and its commercialization. You can sense that I am actually fasting. I am a bit ‘slow’.

Listen here in MP3 (15 min 15 sec/ 5.1 MB).

If you like this show, do me [...]

Over the past week I’ve been wanting to write about the unusual advertising teaser campaign that popped up on ‘mupi’ billboards across Amman. I never got to write about it and today the ads where gone! What the heck is happening!

The campaign I’m talking about (and of which I don’t even have a photo, except [...]