Showing posts with label Beirut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beirut. Show all posts
July 30, 2012
July 23, 2012
'Beirut' wordmark | بيروت
The conceptual failure of design:
Here's just another word mark that reads as بيروت (Beirut). yet, one that says nothing about the city itself.Another reductive logo to add to the pool of soulless logos that have been created to represent Beirut. This is when design fails at portraying realities such as cities_ places whose imprint is marked more by their citizens' shared experiences, rather than the remnants of images left in one's memory.
Despite all, I couldn't resist designing this word mark for my city, which I initially was intending to stencil in the city streets.
May 27, 2012
March 20, 2012
The Mad City...
A non-graphic design post for the lovers of the mad city, Beirut - a city that hurts as much as it makes us laugh!
A touching poem by Antoine Boulad ( from: Maker of Realities, 2011):
It is always the same Beirut, desertified, erased, canceled, zero score. Well done, all!
Effected by the madness of men and women such as we.
By the portholes of airplanes that spy and sniff, aiming point blank for the heart,
though they may appear colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
Bravo to the nations of the earth for their madness.
A touching poem by Antoine Boulad ( from: Maker of Realities, 2011):
It is always the same Beirut, desertified, erased, canceled, zero score. Well done, all!
Effected by the madness of men and women such as we.
By the portholes of airplanes that spy and sniff, aiming point blank for the heart,
though they may appear colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
Bravo to the nations of the earth for their madness.
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