Category: Design
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Comic Sans, superhero!
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Beyond hilarious. The funniest font movie ever! Read these related posts on 360east: The 99: Islamic culture based comic.. Heard of Aranim? A type experiment that went nowhere! How “Necessary” is it for an “online” shopping business to have a website? John Steward on Gaza..
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A Porsche, smashed
This morning I found this Porsche at the end of cull-de-sac in Amman. I could not resist taking a photo. [Click to enlarge]. Read these related posts on 360east: Today, physicists will get to play with their 10 BILLION DOLLAR toy.. Steorn free energy update: A presentation, and a Guardian article Dubai’s dark side The…
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Ikbis.com breaks new records and launches cool video player
What an amazing ride for ikbis.com over the past 8 weeks! The site’s traffic has shot up. We’re talking about a many-fold growth which necessitated the addition of new servers to the infrastructure! The Groundzero episodes have been coming out every monday. The first season of 13 episodes (the guys prefer to call them “the…
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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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Design by committee can kill
What happens when corporate committees start “art directing”.. Read these related posts on 360east: A parliament that wants to jail journalists Are we tall or what The King’s letter: taxation, poverty and energy Impressive names (like Bruce Mau) at the upcoming Tasmeem Doha design conference Jordanians are fat-eating, smoking couch potatoes..
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Amman’s first Arabic typo facade
Deconstructivist architecture meets modern Arabic typography in this facade of a new restaurant that will open on Amman’s Mecca street! This building has caught my attention for the first time some months ago, as I saw its “haphazardly” placed metal columns being erected. But it was a real surprise around a week ago to see…
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Check out the new Ikbis.com homepage
Yesterday night, the Ikbis.com team launched a new version of the home page. This new edition starts to reflect Ikbis’s evolved thinking and some of our new strategies, which will start to become more apparent in the coming months. Expect to see more cool contests from Ikbis, which will encourage people produce great videos and…
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Amman’s old downtown signs are gone! (but I managed to photograph a few)
Yesterday, Saturday, I decided to finally start my ‘project’ of documenting the old shop and office signs of downtown Amman. I parked my car at the top end of a staircase leading down from Jabal Amman to Basman street. I started taking some pictures, then my camera’s battery died. I bought a pack of batteries…
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When did Amman’s shop signs loose their beautiful lettering
I have been promising myself for at leas the last 7 years to start photographic the old signs of downtown Amman. But I never got around to doing that. The beautiful old signs of Amman are disappearing fast. The shops that one day used to be proud establishments have closed. The doctors and the lawyers…
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Color on a wall: Amman’s biggest painting..
Have you seen this? I’m calling it Amman’s biggest painting (prove me wrong if you know a bigger one). The wall of the Radisson SAS hotel has been undergoing a transformation for the past few weeks. The work is by owl-obsessed artist Rima Malallah, who also happens to run the Love on a Bike shop…
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Amman: The Incomplete City and the missing trees of City Mall!
Wherever you look in Amman you see half done stuff. Everything is incomplete. City Mall is an investment of tens of millions of Dinars. Some pretty amazing shops inside. It is a successful, popular place. The photo above is from the pavement around the mall. I am sorry, but this makes me sick. Where the…
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Is that some real Graffiti on a Ammani wall?
[click to enlarge] This caught my eye! Graffiti on a wall near the exit from Wadi Saqra Street to the 3rd Circle. Amman’s graffiti has, so far, consisted of text only statements. Usual examples include: Expression of love and heartbreak (Min Ghadr il Bashar, 3ishigt issafar) Political Statements (Al Haqq Awalan) and the ubiquitous ad…