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Starting 2014 with a flying visit to Augsburg

On a recent trip to Europe, I took the opportunity to drop by Michael Stoll’s office at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Michael kindly showed me around his workplace, a laboratory and library of visual communications. This man’s collection of vintage graphics i
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More thoughts on a visual lingua franca – It’s not like nobody tried…

Do you read me? Up until relatively recently, words ruled public discourse in the form of writing and speech. The appearance of television and digital media changed this. In some areas, especially popular culture and news, the relationship between words and images even flipped, making
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Thoughts on a visual lingua franca – Dreaming of total understanding

  A city like Dubai, home to people from around 200 different countries AND the world’s highest skyscraper, readily lends itself to analogies with the story of the Tower of Babel. Any given day, you are interacting with people who speak a dozen different languages, trying to make
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Hug the mailman: Choi’s Gallery book about infographics finally arrives

  The other week something rather exciting landed on our desk: Choi’s Gallery’s new book, Infographic Design, a global portfolio of infographics projects, featuring five projects realised by us. 232-pages full of inspiration, including case studies ranging from the so
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Fine art, motion graphics and cross media: how we did London 2012

Here we are with the finished print component of our Olympics project, fresh from the printer’s. Like last time, we made a 52-page, standard size print supplement, which came out on the opening day of the Games. But this time we added a few different elements to the mix.  Click
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Happy National Day in UAE

Again we are “cooking” an special graphics with Al Bayan graphics team. I’m enjoying each project with them, and now, we are using extra tea for it!   Different types of tea which gave us a wonderful  scale of warm colors. You can do it at home.
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The Queen is coming…

QE2 will be here in Dubai next 27th, we have prepared to welcome her a graphic that can be used as a reference for anyone who is interested to know about this emblematic ocean liner.
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Redbull in Abu Dhabi 2008

Emirates Business 24-7 weekend edition
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