In the second part of our series Middle East’s Design World, we dig into the Arabic Cover Design Archive. As the name implies, it’s “an Arabic cover design archive.” The archive is very large and diverse with posters, illustrations, all kinds of different book cover designs such as children’s book cover designs, hardcover designs, -even …
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Middle East’s Design World #2: Arabic Cover Design Archive
Carmen Wayne’s Double Exposures of Subtle Emotions
Photographs are an art form that is delicately structured to tell us something, a story, in every encounter. Regardless of being conscious or unconscious, photography gives meaning to itself. Although when the photographer avoids attributing meaning, the viewer gives a meaning with his own connotations as he looks at the photograph. In its current form, …
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Creative Visual Journals: Sketchbook Pages
Creative visual journals, in other name sketchbooks, are a personal space to build the ideas that take form. Basically, sketchbooks offer us an area that can be used to dig into themes, document memories, play with new techniques and develop new ideas. To sum up, pages that we are completely free to use as we …
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Edouard Taufenbach Captures Swallows Flight Route on Migration
Birds represent freedom in almost every field of art. Not belonging to one place, being able to go to another place whenever they want, and most importantly being able to fly. We think they’re free just because they don’t measure distance in steps as humans do. However, their lives also pass in certain routines. People …
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Editorial Design Archives: Out of Print Books
The desire to produce dates back to ancient times. Included in the Paleolithic Age, people had artistic creativity. These periods can be called the transition period of humanity. So, here we are in the modern-day, we have come a long way and communicate through many different mediums. One of the communication methods we use is …
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Aryo Toh Djojo: Lost in Space While Observing LA’s Glamorous Culture
Universe has many secrets never heard by anyone, many unsolved riddles without hints, many premises not proved yet. However, humanity invests in countless assumptions to put their life in order. Some things are always bad and others good. That’s how people survived for centuries. Using biases and default mode reflexes. If something threatens your life, …
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Middle East’s Design World: Nike Football Kit Launch
Wonders of the Middle East’s Design and the Culture Mixture Graphic design is a language with color, texture, layout, symbols, typography usage, and many other features that we can count. The design world is also influenced by the geography and culture in which executed. The synthesis of East and West is one of the elements …
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Darian Mederos: Hiding Behind Bubble Wrap in Hyper-Realistic Paintings
Every one of us hides something that can’t be told. Every one of us is going through something which others don’t know. Life can be challenging and we still have to move on and wake up to another day. But we can’t show our vulnerabilities, so a simple way to avoid that is hiding or …
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Everlasting New-Neu Era in Design: Underground Media
How come design trends are changing so quickly? How does this fluid world of design affects us and defines our style? How many of them are currently permanent, visible, and in-use? We always ask those questions to ourselves while we scroll our screens, working on a new design, talking to our friends, colleagues about an …
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