Category: Design

  • 10,000+ reasons why Nokia is in trouble

    Nothing beats a great visualization of a revolutionary phenomenon. The screen shot above is of 10000iphoneapplications.com a site which lists the icon of over 10,000+ applications available for the iPhone as of today. Ten thousand plus applications for a platform that is only some months old. Re-read that last sentence and think. Never before in…

  • New unibody MacBooks spotted in Amman

    I got my first hands on experience with the new unibody MacBooks at SmartBuy yesterday Friday. Both the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros are available at SmartBuy and Virgin Megastore. At Virgin they are safely hidden away in their packages, as some Virgin employees were busy either perfectly aligning gadget boxes in shelves, dusting off…

  • Branding Amman: Have your say about Amman’s new logo

    [Click image to enlarge] Amman is getting a new logo in 2009. And all citizens are invited to take part in choosing their favorite design. The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) is publishing the above advert in today’s newspapers, inviting everyone to head down to Al Hussein Cultural Center to have a look at an exhibition…

  • SYNTAX and Spring design, develop the website of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha

    As the world of culture’s eyes turn to Doha today for the VIP opening of Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art, SYNTAX, a leading design, branding and user experience company and Spring, a pioneering web technology company announced the launch of the museum’s website at mia.org.qa. The Museum of Islamic Art represents a major milestone not…

  • Jordanian inventor creates world’s highest laptop stand

    This is not a joke or a stunt. This is how our media guru at Ikbis, Mohammad Jaradat (aka Neo) REALLY works. He has some neck problems and he started stacking packs of promotional materials under his new laptop to make his posture more healthy and comfortable, The stack got higher and higher. This is…

  • Netanyahu copies Obama’s site

    Not only is he a wicked, right wing, anti-peace and previously failed politician. Now he’s also a web design plagiarizer? Benjamin Netanyahu basically copied Barack’s Obama web site design style and adopted it for his upcoming bid to become prime minister of Israel. What a joke. There is no way in hell Netanyahu can be…

  • New MacBook documentary: design and manufacturing fanaticism at its best

    Talk about design inspiration and a dedication to craft. Jony Ive, Apple’s design guru, deliver the message with passion. I highly recommend you follow this link to the mini documentary that Apple have released today. It focuses on the amazing new manufacturing method Apple is using for the new MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s. Jonathan Ive…

  • Amman, the ugly. Amman, the beautiful..

    Amman’s quick-practicality and “just do it somehow” attitude has the potential for producing both ugly, self disrespecting scenes and beautiful acts of spontaneous urban art. Walking in the middle of Shmeisani, a district dominated by Jordan’s banks and other businesses, I find this scene. Notice the empty flowerpot, the sign-less sign mast and the tile…

  • The 5800 XpressMusic: how Nokia will kill the iPhone despite frustrating the hell out of us

    Readers of this blog might have noticed that i have become a bit of a mobile phone freak over the past few weeks (or is it months?). Well.. yes. It might have started with my purchase of the Nokia N95 over a year ago and my fascination with the iPhone which goes back to the…

  • Boring event, pretty good phone: the G1 Google phone is here

    “i would like to congratulate”.. “on behalf of”.. “i would to thank”.. “moving forward”.. “driving innovation”.. “a momentous day”.. “maximize”.. What a boring launch event for the “Google Phone” aka T-Mobile G1. Why is it that most corporate leaders always insist in communicating in a manner that doesn’t communicate. You don’t have to have Steve’s…

  • Watwet: new look, stronger taste

    Watwet fans had a big watweting party today, with the launch of the site’s new look and features. The new look is a complete departure from what the site was launched with late last year. For me, one of the most important features of Watwet is the badge that can be added to you blog…

  • ITunes 8: stunning visualizer (but no Genius for Jordan)

    Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo. Today was one of those Apple days. Not in a major way, but still interesting enough to warrant taking a peek at a few blogs that were live-blogging Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event, featuring Steve Jobs, of course. This was a music event. A new Nano and…