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Category: Design

  • New Rainbow Street and the dangers of the creeping “village style” !

    The new lights of Rainbow Street are on! I just came back from a quick 30 minute visit to the street. I wanted to check out the street’s new developments and also document a creeping danger that is threatening the street’s urban identity. I will not elaborate on the interventions that were made as part…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • We need a Post-It mural like this in the office

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  • Aerogel: the lightest, most expensive material in the world

    This is just amazing. I believe that in the next 10 years some totally crazy material will be developed that will change the world. Love it! Read these related posts on 360east: Why are flat screen TVs so expensive in Jordan? Are your home videos ready for the prime time? Toot gets Pulped Faces For…

  • 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.

  • Amman twilight zone elevator (spooky)

    Ever wanted to be in two places at the same time? How about being in three places? In Amman there is a building that has a magical elevator that achieves the impossible. Get in on the ground floor, press the button for the third floor and be amazed.. This defies all logic and science. I…

  • Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?

    Show me your website and I’ll tell you what kind of candidate (and person) you are. That’s essentially the gist of the very interesting article by the New York Times: Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? The article offers insight into the visual design and branding techniques used in the websites of these…

  • iPhone+GPS+Video Camera+3.5G=Garmin nüvifone!

    Here is another iPhone competitor. Garmin, the leading GPS device maker is bringing out a touch-screen phone, which, theoretically at least, beats the iPhone by including GPS, 3.5G connectivity and the ability to record video: say hello to the (weirdly named) nüvifone. The only problem: it won’t be out before September ‘08. By then, the…

  • It’s REEEAAAL: the Optimus Maximus keyboard displayed at CES 2008

    Finally. After years of waiting, the skeptics have been proven wrong. The design geniuses at Russian design company Art Lebdev have come through with a working model of their Optimus Maximus keyboard, which, for those of you who have been living in cave for the past couple of years is a keyboard which has little…

  • Happy Everything..

    Happy Everything. From your friends at ikbis.com!

  • Architects/Contractors: Help needed in building a stone wall!

    Dear readers! I am working on a project, which will include 300 square meters of walls that need to be clad in the style shown in the photos above and below (this sample was built for me by someone but I am trying to get more offers). The stone will be supplied. What I need…