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It’s time to get moving…
June is known to be the month of final exams and the end of a long academic year. For ArabAd, this has been an opportunity to invite some of the finest Lebanese academics to reflect on some note-worthy issues, while we were also interested to open a dialog with some of the most prominent visual communications professionals this region entails, to have them share their insights for making ideas happen, assess the academic system, the educational level junior designers end up gaining at school, and how can we nurture creativity and know-how at all levels.
Parallel to this, ArabAd invited some fresh graduates to submit their finest visual design moments, their end of year projects’, their social design sub- missions to international contests, while taking few minutes for introspection on what brought them down the graphic design and advertising path.
(See ArabAd July issue No.6 vol.19 p.6) |
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Syrian Telecom Industry
Damascus: By Kinda Dib
Although the Syrian telecom establishment is wholly owned by the Syrian government, and is considered to be the sole provider of infrastructure, it could
contract other parties to provide some telecommunication services for its benefit. It is responsible for providing telephone services, payphone, Internet connection, data communication, all forms of wired and wireless communication, and it operates a number of satellite earth-stations. There is a trend toward having multiple entities providing telecommunication services, and the contribution of the private sector in value-added services such as pay phones. In reality, it is expected to maintain its monopoly until 2010, when full liberalisation of the telecom market is expected to take its place.
(See ArabAd July issue No.6 vol.19 p.92) |
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Stress Test Puts Corporate Images On Fire?
By Naseem Javed
Overnight, things got suddenly changed, over-exposing of corporate credibility and governance, like Richter scales gone wild are thumping the global populace in sheer panic while shattering thousands of mega corporate name brands worldwide. The good and sober companies of the world, not only must weather these credibility quakes, but also must project their clean image and stay protected during these monstrous shifts of global image. Today, no matter how big or small the name-identity, it must face some of the principle Laws of Corporate Naming to cope with brand new challenges of corporate-sobriety.
(See ArabAd July issue No.6 vol.19 p.116) |
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Capturing the essence of beauty
The photo shoot for “L’Azurde” wrapped in March 2009 featuring Lebanese pop star Elissa, the ambassadress of the jewelry brand, is said to have been ecstatic. The man who captured her beauty was Andrea Klarin, a Yugoslav- born fashion photographer famous for his spectacular pictorials of stars such as as Grace Jones, Valentino, Emma De Caunes, Fernando Alonso, Teri Hatcher and Fergie.
The Fantastic Film Factory are the agents’ behind Klarin’s presence in Lebanon. He is one of seven world-renowned artists represented in the Middle East and North Africa by FFF. The company gathered some of the most reputed names in the European advertising photography, in order for the most inspired people to deliver the clients’ messages to the Middle Eastern and North African audience.
(See ArabAd July issue No.6 vol.19 p.130) |
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PDF zines to rival print publications
By Ghada Azzi
New magazines are dreamt up each day, as plenty of titles continue to arrive, thus keeping the magazine industry on its toes. However, many of these new publications aren’t hitting the newsstands, rather invading the cyber space, being positioned as an internet offering, rolling on PDF format available as downloadable publications.
Indeed, nowadays, you no longer need to walk to a newsagent. For magazines to survive, they needed to be more than paper and ink.
The same content has been available out there, in the cyber wilderness, being delivered faster and brighter. And the sheer variety of creatively outstanding titles we came across, when putting this article together, shows how alive and exciting the electronic magazine-publishing industry is today.
The good news is that there are a lot of artistic and cultural PDF magazines on the internet, with various niche and topics. There is over 200 publications in the visual arts’ global arena that are presented on the cyber planet for one to download free of charge. These conceptual and visual design magazines serve as excellent source of inspiration for interested readers who are given the opportunity to view great illustration, photography, graphic design, painting, typography and various other visual and communication arts from the world over.
(See ArabAd July issue No.6 vol.19 p.132) |
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INJAZ Al-Arab: Arab workforce is this year’s winner
For the 40 high school and university students at the INJAZ al-Arab Young Arab Entrepreneurs Competition, who represented 12 Arab nations and presented to a panel of judges, from high-profile organisations, the past two days were full of challenge and excitement.
Indeed, students from Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia all competed against each other during the hectic two days by presenting their innovative ideas to the judging panel, which included Youssef Nasr, CEO HSBC Middle East, Hani Kablawi, Managing Director and Head of Middle East & Africa, Bank of New York Mellon, Walter Sufi, Citibank, Waleed Al Banawi, Chairman of Young President’s Organisation (YPO), Shehab Nawawi, Chairman and Managing Director of Giza Systems, and Michel Fattal of Fattal Holding. And it’s the Omani team that ended snatching the ‘Company of the Year 2009’ award winner at the Competition, held from June 21-23 2009 in Beirut.
(See ArabAd July issue No.6 vol.19 p.152) |
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