Month: October 2005

  • Amman’s urban development and.. a touch of ideology!

    Amman is gradually becoming a real city. It is becoming ‘old enough’ to be ‘real’. There is an effect of accumulation of history, buildings, people, memories and relationships that is making the whole urban experience of Amman more interesting and deep. I will not attempt to elaborate more on this, but I think you get…

  • The Jordan Times turns 30..

    The Jordan Times turned 30 Wednesday. A special supplement was published on the occasion. It opens with a letter to the editor by HM King Abdullah II. I quote a paragraph here.. “We open The Jordan Times and are confident of finding the best in breaking news, feature articles, and important commentary. We’ve appreciated your…

  • You have the attention of Bill Gates: what do you tell him?

    Bill Gates in the early 80’s UPDATE I just came back from the Bill Gates iftar. The whole government and ICT sector was there. Gates gave a short speech praising Jordan’s technology adoption and its commitment to education and training. Notably, he urged Jordanians to build their own intellectual capital. There was no major announcement…

  • Folksonomy: classify the world the way you want

    THE WEB | Ahmad Humeid explores the emergent ‘tagging’ phenomena You’re looking at a picture of a black and white football laying on the grass. If I ask you to describe the picture with a few words you might say ‘sport’, ‘ball’ and ‘black and white’. If I ask another person other words might pop…

  • Why Apple needs to acquire Flock

    Flock is a new browser. “What? Another browser?” I hear you shout. But wait, as the name suggests this is a ‘social’ browser. Which means that it tries to incorporate a number of social software trends that have emerged over the past years, such as blogging, photsharing, collaborative bookmarking, etc. I downloaded the developer preview…

  • Hajjaj at his worst: an obsession with ‘foreign humiliation’

    The first piece of media that I start my day with every morning is Hajjaj’s cartoon on the back page of Al Ghad newspaper. ‘Abu Mahjoob’ and his entourage of other Jordanian characters play out their lives within the cartoon’s frame in little sketches that hit the nail of our social reality right on in…

  • Winter arrives

    Winter arrives Originally uploaded by humeid. First real rain in Amman this season. Wednesday, Oct 19, 2005.

  • The Jordanian FM radio spectrum is becoming crowded. But with what?

    MEDIA | Ahmad Humeid goes airwave surfing It started when I was trying to find an empty frequency on my wife’s car radio. She has an iPod that she would like to listen to in the car, so I got her a little FM transmitter (called the iTrip) that can transmit audio to a car…

  • SYNTAX develops Jordan’s first stock image site for renowned photographer Osman Akuz

    Osman Akuz is one of Jordan’s most renowned photographers. Over the decades he amassed an absolutely HUGE collection of photos from Jordan and the Middle East covering a wide spectrum from artistic to industrial photography. When we, people in the design, advertising and media business think of Osman we realize that he’s a figure who’s…

  • Cross cultural: The wonders of Tabla and a recommended podcast

    Over the past few days I was in email contact with Jeff Cavanaugh from the US based media firm Creative Armada. We had an interesting discussion as he was setting up an interview with a musician guest over a VoIP phone connection, for inclusion in his music podcast Armada Sound System. He found my blog…

  • Aqaba’s tourism brand starts to make an appearance

    The Aqaba tourism brand that SYNTAX developed earlier in 2005 is starting to make an appearance. This is an ad campaign for Aqaba’s Ramadan nights that we designed and that made its debut in the papers today. Also watch out for the Aqaba.jo that Batelco are designing, based on our brand guidelines. Read these related…

  • Good usage of my ‘Ahmad’ typeface

    This campaign for the ‘Aman’ Orphan’s Future organization is using my ‘Ahmad’ in a pretty good way. Al-Ghad newspaper also uses the font for the headlines of its special supplements. Read these related posts on 360east: The story of the “Ahmad” Arabic typeface A type experiment that went nowhere! ‘Ahmad’ typeface mentioned in Eye magazine…