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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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Design in Jordan: something is moving

    The words ‘design’ and ‘Jordan’ rarely are thought of as belonging together. The practice of design in Jordan is still in its infancy. People who practice design are found in the growing number of advertising agencies (or graphic design firms, of which only a few exist anyway), in architectural companies (where the designers are called,…

  • Islam was spread by the sword

    Believe it or not, I am back in Doha, this time to speak at the US-Islamic World Forum about new media and the hopes and challenges of the ‘next generation’. If you are really interested in what’s happening at this conference you’d better check out what a serious political scientist like Abu Aardvark has to…

  • SYNTAX and Toot win at Jordan’s ‘Web Oscars’

    What an eye opener! I discovered that my team at SYNTAX and Toot are, in reality, a bunch of crazies! I mean, these people created quite a scene at the Jordan Web Awards last Thursday. They had not one, but maybe four compressed air horns, sparkling candles, confetti and other ‘celebration’ equipment’. And boy can…

  • ICT Forum: moving from ‘talk-ology’ to technology?

    Kids from the Jubilee School working with robotic kits IT INDUSTRY | Ahmad Humeid asks: is there hope for our much-hyped knowledge economy? The final session of the Jordan ICT Forum, which was held on the shores of the Dead Sea on the 6th and 7th of December, had a stark and alarming message to…

  • Games and content for Arabia’s internet?

    I still have one major blog post/article about the recent Jordan ICT Forum 2006 in me. But that will have to wait for another 48 hours. For now I would like to point you Lina Ejeilat’s post about the discussion on the 2nd day of the forum around Arabic content (or rather the lack thereof)…

  • Conference organizers: have mercy!

    At the end of the last day of the Jordan ICT Forum 2006, there was a gala dinner, sponsored by the brand-new Optimiza company, preceded by a cocktail reception. So here is how the evening unfolded.. Everyone was at the King Hussein Convention Center, but we had to be bussed to the Marriott because the…

  • Jordan Telecom: “show us there is demand for 4 or 6 Mbit DSL access and we’ll happily offer it”

    The telecom session of the first day of the ICT forum, was quite lively. All the players, with the notable exception of Xpress (which was nowhere to be scene at this Forum) were sitting there, debating everything for license fees, the new Jordanian WiMax license which is being tendered, the amazing growth of mobile penetration.…

  • Beyond “Reach”: The new targets for Jordan’s IT industry

    Just another highlight from the first day of the Jordan ICT Forum: the new targets that Intaj has set for the ICT industry, to be reached by 2011. This comes after the REACH initiative has run its course, with some of its aims achieved, while other still remain open. By 2011, Jordan ICT industry is…