14.Sep.2009 Chronicles of war
Three years too late I discover the blog of a fellow graduate from the design program at AUB. I saw this today and it’s just heartbreaking. In a way, I’m glad I had not seen it at the time as I was already going through hell. The posts are painfully honest. A true and unassuming [...]
12.Sep.2009 “The future on screen”
Very interesting look at new TV and laptop screen prototypes. I especially like the huge touch screen desktop. It starts to look like the Minority Report screens. The future is finally here!
28.Aug.2009 RSS feed compromised
Sorry for this but it looks like my RSS feed has been hijacked. Am working to resolve this asap. Thanks Mark for the tip!
18.Aug.2009 Google ethics
For the last months I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed with font piracy. Tonight, I googled “Frutiger Arabic” and the 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 8th google results were for piracy sites. Now isn’t this just mad? Am I the only one who thinks that Google has an ethical responsibility here? These sites show blatant disregard for [...]
04.Jun.2009 Client Vendor relationship: Hilarious but really sad
I came across this via a post on typophile. Just amazing!
03.Jun.2009 A big day for Arabic on the web
Monotype Imaging has announced support for the use of Embedded OpenType (EOT) for non-commercial websites (full press release is here). This covers the whole Linotype, Monotype, and ITC typeface libraries. Why is this so great for Arabic? The Linotype Library has a lot of interesting Arabic typefaces (including mine!) and this new End User License [...]
14.May.2009 Well it’s about time!!
Almost 3 years after the invasion, Israel has finally submitted the plans that show where the 4 million cluster bombs that they dropped on South Lebanon had fallen. One million had not exploded and 300 people have been maimed or killed since then, mostly children. The BBC has reported that most of these bombs were [...]
11.May.2009 Arabic Font Specimen Book
The book has been in the works for several years and it is now finally available. All the Linotype typefaces are of course included. I haven’t gotten my copy yet but I’m looking forward to it! Judging from the release photos it looks like there’s more than just type specimens and I’m curious to see [...]
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!
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 [...]