Category: SYNTAX
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Blouzaat: Urban art hits Amman today
It’s Made in Jordan/Germany 3 Syntaxers and a Friend are behind it. It’s T-shirts, art, graffiti and other stuff. It’s a store near Jabal Amman’s rainbow street. It opens today, Sunday. Blouzaat.com And someone has already made an interview..
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Sindibad: a blog for a new Arab business renaissaince
From the Manifesto of Sindibad: The first Arab business and entrepreneurship blog: “Arabs have been known throughout history as good traders. Nothing expresses that better than the story of Sindibad, the Arab trader from Baghdad, who braved the seas in his trading adventures that reached far beyond Arabia. If ‘risk taking’ is an admired business…
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Akhtaboot: Web 2.0 job hunting comes to Arabia
Akhtaboot.com is nothing less than a revolution in the world of online recruiting in Arabia (and that’s not just because SYNTAX had a hand in it ). The launch of Akhtaboot marks the arrival of web 2.0 in the Middle East’s recruitment market. Far more than a database of ‘job opportunities’ Akhtaboot is a total…
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Steorn cancels show: huge disappointment or another stunt?
I kept checking the Steorn forums from time to time on Friday. Around noon the news came out, Steorn is calling off its show of the Orbo at the Kinetica Museum. Further to Steorn’s announcement yesterday (5th July) regarding the technical difficulties experienced during the installation of its “Orbo” technology at the Kinentica Museum in…
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Branding water: SYNTAX creates identity for Miyahuna
Tuesday was Brand-day for SYNTAX. Not one, but two SYNTAX-created brands were launched. The two companies could not be different, and we’re really happy the spectrum of our assignments is so wide. The big brand we helped bring to life yesterday was Miyahuna, the 1200 people company that delivers water to Amman’s 2.6 million residents.…
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Design, management and web job opportunities open at SYNTAX
[Click to enlarge ad] Help us spread the word about open positions at SYNTAX (for fresh graduates, juniors, seniors). We are looking for designers, Project Coordinators (aka Account Executives), as well as Information Architects. We are also still looking for Brand Consultants and Strategists and Creative Writers. These days SYNTAX works on projects all over…
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International Design Forum: Arabia’s design Big Bang?
I was barely able to catch my breath after attending the 3 day TYPO conference in Berlin and yet here I am at yet another design conference. I am blogging from Dubai, where I will be attending, and speaking at the International Design Forum (IDF) Of course I cannot but see the contrasts: I mean,…
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Gatecrashing TypeRadio
Try to imagine this: around 50 graphic designers, laptops, cameras, a mixing board and a fast internet connection all crammed up into a small room at the 35th floor of a Berlin hotel. This was the scene Wednesday night as the SYNTAX crew gate-crashed the temporary headquarters of Type Radio. Type Radio is, usually, a…
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Berlin visual shock
Our friend Max was waiting for us in Berlin Tegel airport as we arrived Wednesday morning, after a sleepless night. After taking the bus to Alexanderplatz, he convinced us to take a “15 minute” walk to the house of our host Alexander Branczyk. The 15 minutes turned into an hour, as we stopped at every…
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Blogging from Berlin, the TYPO and DesignMai
The SYNTAX crew is about to enter the TYPO Hall at the TYPO 2007 conference in Berlin. We’ve been here a little over 24 hours and we’re already in swing with this city’s design explosion. The show will start in 15 minutes. Updates later. Read these related posts on 360east: Kalle Lasn, the AdBuster, is…
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View from office, Doha, Qatar
I am in Doha, Qatar. And this is the view from the office I am working at.
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Don’t Tell the Boss: Episode 1: Shooting mobile shooters
I am the boss. And no one told me. I just found it on ikbis! Episode 1 of Don’t tell the boss, deals with issues of privacy in the digital age and provides an excellent solution: shoot the shooters! Read these related posts on 360east: Where is the boss? It’s ‘The Office’ with a Jordanian…