30.Mar.2009 5000 words and moving
Today I finished the first chapter in my PhD dissertation and now have 5000 words out of a max of 100,000. This may be a small step but they will add up! I’m now halfway in my second year but so far my grasp on reality was that I am doing research. Now that I [...]
27.Mar.2009 Koufiya on Facebook
My Arabic+Latin typeface Koufiya is now on Facebook. The benefits of that is that we can easily share comments and discussions without the hassle of all that spam…
26.Mar.2009 What’s in a name?
A French Crusador-Falcon. Nice. Yes that would be me. My first name is French. My mom’s family name is Saleeby which means crusador and with a family tree originating in Greece. My family name is Urdu for hawk and the species is the Peregrine Falcon. What a combination!
25.Mar.2009 iPhone OS 3.0 to support Arabic?
Here is an interesting discussion of what it means to support a right-to-left reading direction. I’m not impressed with the UI font for Arabic, though. Wouldn’t it be cool if my Frutiger Arabic was in there? I wish!
24.Mar.2009 Frankenstein revisited: Body Shop rebrand
Body Shop is sporting a new logo, and the Arabic follows suit. Thankfully, the new Arabic is much better that the older version. One less monster out there… Yey!!
23.Mar.2009 Frankenstein 3: Al-Counter
I was in Dubai a few weeks ago and saw this shop in the new fancy Atlantis resort on The Palm. The logo has interesting forms, and if we could forget that it is supposed to be Arabic, then it might pass. However, it is meant to be Arabic, and for that reason it sucks. [...]
13.Mar.2009 Facebook in Arabic
This just in. I wonder how many Lebanese will switch over though.
05.Mar.2009 My non-design skills
An off-topic note: Tonight I decided to try to make the traditional Lebanese garlic dip so I can have a chicken and French fries sandwich like we have in Lebanon. I spent 1 hour trying to do this, starting with a small quantity, messing up all the proportions, spilling garlic pieces all over the kitchen [...]