Dubai-based graphic designer Ali Jabbar made these stunning minimalist illustrations of famous people.
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Minimalist Portraits by Ali Jabbar
Dubai-based graphic designer Ali Jabbar made these stunning minimalist illustrations of famous people.
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Dubai Marvel Super Heroes Theme Park Concept
Late 2007, United Arab Emirate-based Al Ahli Group and Marvel Entertainment, Inc. announced a partnership that will bring Marvel's full library of Super Heroes - including Spider-Man, Iron Man, The X-Men, Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer - to Dubai for a major new theme park destination being developed by AAG. The Marvel Super-Heroes theme park project was supposed to open in 2011 with an investment of over $1 billion USD but apparently it seems that it will open now in 2012.
The creative team who designed the park are great creative minds from around the globe based in Hollywood, Orlando and Dubai throughout the development process. When the project was announced the press release said that "New technology and unparalleled visitor experiences will be the hallmark of the theme park creating a new standard for theme parks around the world".
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Stereo.type: Typographic Jewelry
By Ebon Heath, in collaboration with Dubai based jewelry designer Mona Ibrahim.
The first collection of this collaboration was launched June 2009 in Dubai, at the designer retail store, gallery 50 degrees.
All the designs are made of the different unique forms each culture uses as language. This collection was both in Arabic and English, the 2 official languages of Dubai. This use of multilingual type endows the jewelry with a meaning and message (or a beautiful abstract form if u cannot read the language).
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Award Winning Identities from Cannes Lions 2009
The 56th annual Cannes Lions (www.canneslions.com) International Advertising Festival recently took place in France. This is its second year to include awards for design. Among the many winner in the wide-ranging design category, below are some of the notable identity projects.
Corporate identity for German ad agency, Lukas Lindemann Rosinski.
"When Bernhard Lukas, Arno Lindemann and Bent Rosinski started their own ad-agency, they were looking for a logo that contained something personal from each founder. They discovered a particular point: The length of their names were proportional to their actual heights and were proportional to each other (60%, 100%, 80%). And thus, the concept for their corporate identity was born: Size Matters."
Identity for Global Handwashing Day (Proctor & Gamble) by Landor. Nearly 80 countries participated in the launch of the first Global Handwashing Day.
"The act of washing one's hands with soap can dramatically reduce the incidence of diarrheal diseases and pneumonia, which together account for the majority of children's deaths around the world. The goal of Global Handwashing Day is to make people aware that effective prevention is simple and inexpensive...
The characters holding hands communicate that when water and hands are brought together with soap, health is the result—and health is worth smiling about."
Branding for Dubai-based Aswaaq Supermarkets by Landor.
"Dubai has a broad ethnic mix, with each nationality bringing its own background and flavor to the country... Aswaaq aims to become a daily destination, community centric hub and a celebration of diversity. In Muslim culture its almost unheard of to promote emotional expression through human faces. Our client felt the identity strategy of engaging the community through cultural diversity and emotional exchange was compelling enough to challenge convention, creating a breakaway brand that was so daring for the Middle East region."
A symbol for Brazil's No Homophobia campaign by Indústria Nacional & Dialogo Design.
"According to Brazilian researchers, 70% of its gay population suffers some sort of discrimination. Every second day a homosexual is killed because of homophobia... The worldwide known rainbow flag was used to reveal boldy and instantly the violence against homosexuals."
Identity for The Alliance for Climate Protection's “We” campaign by Collins.
"Our approach was to make an idea as complex and potentially intimidating as stopping global climate change feel personal and achievable. Since the audience is everyone, we flipped the “m” in the word ME to make a bigger, more inclusive idea: WE."
Corporate Identity for Hudson Gavin Martin, a New Zealand-based law firm specializing in intellectual property, by Alt Group.
"Colloquial wisdom has it that all good things come in threes. Three is more than a partnership – it’s a team. Culture and customs offer up all sorts of threesomes, humorous and otherwise. The identity uses the copyright, trademark, and registered symbols to directly reference the firm's core business."
Logo for Brazilian mobile phone network Claro, by Gad.
"Attributes such as strength, shine and light guided all creative processes of the brand, whose personality also needs to transmit happiness and Brazilian aspects. The new brand represents the shape of the sun, which also combined the transparency as a playful effect. The sun rays reinforce the concept."
Identity for the Jamie Oliver's Recipease retail stores by Williams Murray Hamm. An interesting concept for a store:
"These Recipease shops will be places where you can assemble a brilliant meal in around 20 minutes in our kitchens, using ingredients we’ve prepped for you ahead of time; pick up a delicious freshly-made meal to go; or attend classes where you’ll learn how to make every part of a dish from scratch, no matter what level of cooking you’re at."
Logo for Office Games, a spoof athletics fundraiser benefiting Richard House Children's Hospice, by The Partners in London.
"They didn't want it to appear too 'charity' and pressure people into taking part, instead the focus was on the fun and enjoyment of the event."
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Corporate identity for German ad agency, Lukas Lindemann Rosinski."When Bernhard Lukas, Arno Lindemann and Bent Rosinski started their own ad-agency, they were looking for a logo that contained something personal from each founder. They discovered a particular point: The length of their names were proportional to their actual heights and were proportional to each other (60%, 100%, 80%). And thus, the concept for their corporate identity was born: Size Matters."
Identity for Global Handwashing Day (Proctor & Gamble) by Landor. Nearly 80 countries participated in the launch of the first Global Handwashing Day."The act of washing one's hands with soap can dramatically reduce the incidence of diarrheal diseases and pneumonia, which together account for the majority of children's deaths around the world. The goal of Global Handwashing Day is to make people aware that effective prevention is simple and inexpensive...
The characters holding hands communicate that when water and hands are brought together with soap, health is the result—and health is worth smiling about."
Branding for Dubai-based Aswaaq Supermarkets by Landor."Dubai has a broad ethnic mix, with each nationality bringing its own background and flavor to the country... Aswaaq aims to become a daily destination, community centric hub and a celebration of diversity. In Muslim culture its almost unheard of to promote emotional expression through human faces. Our client felt the identity strategy of engaging the community through cultural diversity and emotional exchange was compelling enough to challenge convention, creating a breakaway brand that was so daring for the Middle East region."
A symbol for Brazil's No Homophobia campaign by Indústria Nacional & Dialogo Design."According to Brazilian researchers, 70% of its gay population suffers some sort of discrimination. Every second day a homosexual is killed because of homophobia... The worldwide known rainbow flag was used to reveal boldy and instantly the violence against homosexuals."
Identity for The Alliance for Climate Protection's “We” campaign by Collins."Our approach was to make an idea as complex and potentially intimidating as stopping global climate change feel personal and achievable. Since the audience is everyone, we flipped the “m” in the word ME to make a bigger, more inclusive idea: WE."
Corporate Identity for Hudson Gavin Martin, a New Zealand-based law firm specializing in intellectual property, by Alt Group."Colloquial wisdom has it that all good things come in threes. Three is more than a partnership – it’s a team. Culture and customs offer up all sorts of threesomes, humorous and otherwise. The identity uses the copyright, trademark, and registered symbols to directly reference the firm's core business."
Logo for Brazilian mobile phone network Claro, by Gad."Attributes such as strength, shine and light guided all creative processes of the brand, whose personality also needs to transmit happiness and Brazilian aspects. The new brand represents the shape of the sun, which also combined the transparency as a playful effect. The sun rays reinforce the concept."
Identity for the Jamie Oliver's Recipease retail stores by Williams Murray Hamm. An interesting concept for a store:"These Recipease shops will be places where you can assemble a brilliant meal in around 20 minutes in our kitchens, using ingredients we’ve prepped for you ahead of time; pick up a delicious freshly-made meal to go; or attend classes where you’ll learn how to make every part of a dish from scratch, no matter what level of cooking you’re at."
Logo for Office Games, a spoof athletics fundraiser benefiting Richard House Children's Hospice, by The Partners in London."They didn't want it to appear too 'charity' and pressure people into taking part, instead the focus was on the fun and enjoyment of the event."
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Arabic Versions of Global Brand Identities
A while back, I came across this. Being an Arab myself and working in a company that specializes in arabic fonts and typography, I thought it couldnt get any more interesting than this...just seeing typographic adaptations of world brands (or attemps at doing so) to accommodate our culture is well...quite surreal...
Anyway, I ended up being really disappointed. Most of them are quite hideous. I do have to give credit though to the few that actually do work like Foot Locker and MAC.
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