Author Archive for Louai Alasfahani

15
May
12

Capstone 2012 Graphic Design Exhibition at AUK

The event is open to the public from 15th- 17th May, 2012.

Related links:

Paragon team part of AUK Graphic Design Capstone jury

Paragon Executive Creative Director judge AUK Capstone logo competition

AUK Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Exhibition 2010

Paragon organizes the Stefan Kanchev world of logos exhibition at AUK sponsored by the IAA

12
May
12

Skywards 2013 Future Artists – Call for entries – Deadline 25th of June 2012

Skywards Future Artists aims to discover exciting new talent in contemporary art and showcase their work worldwide.

Open to any person practising art as an amateur artist, art student or self-taught artist from anywhere in the world. The three winning artists will each receive US$5,000 of prize money and if they are art students, their Art institution would be recognised with a special award of US$2,000.

Winning submissions will also be displayed on a range of communications materials, including our frequent flyer Skywards membership cards, and will be fully credited to the winning artists, giving them unprecedented global coverage and recognition.

Call for entries

Chose the theme that most inspires you, whether it’s Endless Opportunities, A Brighter Future or Global Citizens.

You may enter one or more of the briefs, but please make only one submission for each brief.

This year we’re aiming to make the Skywards Future Artists competition bigger and better as we broaden our scope to champion the work of emerging artists. One of them could be you.

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11
May
12

Visual Reactions by Mohammad Sharaf

I had the pleasure of meeting the passionate Kuwaiti artist Mohammad Sharaf twice, the first occasion was professional the second academic while he was still a student presenting his graduation Capstone project of which I and a fellow Paragon team member took part in the Design jury  Paragon team part of AUK Graphic Design Capstone jury In this project he developed his own study on the Identity, and the Emblem of Kuwait titled The Identity of the Falcon I am confident his passion, talent and dedication will take him further than even his wildest dreams.

الهوية الجديدة

The New Identity

نحو مزيد من الحقوق و الحريات 

Towards more rights and freedom

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06
May
12

The New York festival appoints Paragon chief creative officer on its 2012 grand jury

Related link: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/NYFJuries/

06
May
12

Thinking the same is not good for business

Both ads have been published in the same country in the same newspaper in the same day!!! It would be interesting if they use the same agency :)

One of the many functions of advertising is to achieve differentiation, something that both advertisers were unsuccessful in achiving in these examples.

“When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking”

Client: Bank Sohar

Country: Oman

Year: 30th of April 2012

Client: e.Oman

Country: Oman

Year: 30th of April 2012

cliché (from French, klɪ’ʃe) is a phrase, expression, or idea that has been overused to the point of losing its intended force or novelty, especially when at some time it was considered distinctively forceful or novel. – Wikipedia.

Lateral Thinking: When a low probability line of thought leads to an effective idea, there is a “Eureka” moment and at once the low-probability approach acquires the highest probability. – Edward De Bono. Excerpt from a book by John Townsend & Jacques Favier titled The Creative Manager’s Pocketbook. Page: 2. ISBN: 1-870471-69-5.

 

27
Apr
12

The power of negative space vs. positive space

Two seconds to spot are two seconds too late. the support center union for victims of sexual assault in Israel.

27
Apr
12

What are the origins of the world’s most important typefaces?

typefaces

27
Apr
12

So you need a typeface

Nice chart that leads you to choose the perfect typeface for your project

27
Apr
12

Deadly typo in omani bilingual magazine

One of Oman’s business magazines is attempting to differentiate itself from its competitors by announcing its USP (unique selling proposition) as the ONLY bilingual English & Arabic magazine however they failed because they misspeled  ”bilingual” in Arabic. This pull up banner was placed in Al Bustan hotel during the first sustainable urbanization conference. here is the link Oman Sustainable urbanisation Conference 19 – 20 September 2011

27
Apr
12

Frank & Ernest 3D television




Louai Alasfahani

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ANUBIS was a very old god of the ancient Egyptians, universally worshipped throughout the land and became considered the gatekeeper and ruler of the underworld; the “Guardian of the veil“ he was “Lord of the Cleansing Room” and the opener of the roads of the North. “He observed the weighing of the deceased’s heart against the feather of Maat [Truth] and reported his findings to the jury of the gods.

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