Category: SYNTAX
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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…
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Typography is architecture
Picture from 7iber.com Larger billboards on the sides of Amman’s buildings are occasionally becoming displays for dramatic typographic interventions. Here, type becomes the defining feature of facade. Letterforms are on full display. It’s the triumph of type! It’s cool to some good fonts on Amman’s walls. It’s also good for Amman’s advertising creators and buyers…
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TootCorp’s Karim Arafat talks about Watwet and World Domination on the Spin Show!
The cool guys at SpinBits in Dubai have hosted TootCorp’s Karim Arafat on the their Spin Show podcast, to talk about the Arabian web and mobile scene and the story of TootCorp and specifically about the development of watwet. Really worth a listen. Karim even manages to go through the podcast without saying “Ya’ani”.. Download…
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Careers: Quit that advertising job and do something better with your management skills!
OK people. We are looking for both senior and junior project coordinators. At the Big Name ad agency you’re working at, they probably call you ‘client servicing’ or ‘account executive’. Let me also guess: there is just too much office politics where you work. You’re probably wasting your life communicating with clients who insist that…
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Queen Rania mentions Ikbis, Toot and Akhtaboot as examples of homegrown web innovation
HM Queen Rania is surely following up on what’s happening in the Jordanian web scene! In her recent interview in Jordan Business magazine, she talked, among other issues, about the homegrown development of web sites in Jordan. At TootCorp, we were delighted to read that Ikbis, and Toot where cited by the Queen as two…
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Extensya launches, with full branding and design solution from SYNTAX
Extensya Chairman, Mohamad Saqir announces the start of the company’s operations earlier this April. Extensya, one of the most ambitious contact management outsourcing ventures in the region has recently been launched with a brand and design solution by SYNTAX. Extensya will operate a network of contact management centers in Jordan and the region, serving regional…
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SYNTAX and Spring help Play 99.6 launch brand new website
A couple of days ago, the brand new Play 99.6 website went live. SYNTAX, continuing its successful collaboration with the station, strategized and designed the site in close cooperation with Play’s management and team. Full technical implementation was handled by Spring, who developed the site’s overall content management system. With this release of its site,…
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We need a Post-It mural like this in the office
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SYNTAX looking for super talented managerial staff
With recent major branding and web project wins in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and the ongoing growth of our its business, SYNTAX is seeking to strengthen its managerial capabilities. We’re currently seeking to employ an Operations Officer (with a focus on financials) and Project Coordinators, to help SYNTAX improve its overall management as well as…
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Want to learn about Arabic calligraphy? Join this workshop now
My SYNTAX colleague/calligraphy and typography freak Hussein Azaat, is organizing a great workshop entitled ‘The Splendor of Arabic Calligraphy’, featuring the Syrian calligrapher Saleh Nasab. I highly recommend this workshop to designers and design students. Register today. Want more info, click the poster below or read the details on Facebook.
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SYNTAX: creativity is messy and our studio proves it!
I was the last to leave the office tonight. With the voices and movement of the SYNTAXers absent, the creative mess in one of our two design zones was the loudest thing in workplace. This mess is also, in a way, a mirror image of my messy Mac desktop.. Nice.. ha? It’s fascinating that the…
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Blouzaat opening night
Pretty amazing what the Blouzaat guys did with their little store (on the Rainbow Cinema side street, just off Rainbow Street).. On the opening night on Sunday, I hung out there and watched a good crowd turn out. The T-shirts were flying off the shelves (not exactly shelves but cool boxes, with the t-shirt’s art…