Cultural Integrity in Design

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2011-04-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

Photography

2010-02-13T07:06:00.001-08:00

Finally after ages of having no computer i've just had my computer shipped to me and here is some of the photography and image treatment/manipulation work i've done yesterday.

Amazing experiment...

2009-04-13T22:19:00.000-07:00

go to youtube to be able to watch the 7 parts... enjoy

Rejected

2008-10-22T19:21:00.000-07:00

A poster that got bashed by some people... i still love it and here it is on my blog.

This was one of the directions i proposed for my HVP awareness campaign that i'm designing... if you have an opinion about it... good or bad... do me a favor and comment on it

JazzMania

2008-10-21T14:59:00.001-07:00

A billboard for a musical event "JazzMania"... i'm not gonna post the whole branding project just now since it's not yet done... i just thought i'll post a piece and get some feedback. i'll do my best to post the whole project as soon as it's done.

Info Graphicz

2008-10-21T14:53:00.000-07:00

a piece out of the HPV awareness campaign i'm doing... too much statistics necessitate an info graphics poster... i hope you like it

And the hard work paid off, for the second time on the row

2008-10-05T22:09:00.000-07:00

Well after all of the hard work on the Rockport challenge for this year, it paid off and it paid off very well. the piece turned out gorgeous, and I got to go to NYC and meet great designers.

A new Rockport project

2008-09-23T11:09:00.000-07:00

This is my new piece that I designed for the Rockport competition for this year... any feedback?

Another Attempt

2008-07-29T14:37:00.000-07:00

Have we totally lost our judgment for good and bad???

2008-07-18T10:55:00.000-07:00

Wasn't gonna talk about this bad experience till i was walking through the crowds leaving the movie theater -after I watched the DARK NIGHT movie- where all i could hear was "my god, that was awesome", "duuuuuuude, that was amazing", "definitely the best movie I've seen so far". Jesus Christ, have people lost their freaking mind?

If you are a friend of mine, you would know how much i hate super hero movies, and I'll back that up with reasons. Assuming that the story is the most important component for making a movie, if the writer can't make a story interesting enough to captivate the audience, so he relys on throwing some makeup on the star and giving him super powers, well eff him and his movie. And if you're wondering why did i go to watch a movie that i hate that much, i would tell you that the first reason was that my other choice was sitting home alone with my broken arm, and second was, and I'm not gonna lie to you, i thought i would give it a shot... maybe this time it'll prove me wrong.

That's exactly how the movie went... the opening shot was the Joker robbing a bank, no intro, no easing into the story "assuming that there was a story", no conflict, nothing... absolutely nothing. then Batman comes into play, he sure gets beat by the Joker throughout the whole damn movie, which was like 2 hours and a half, and finally when the moment of truth comes and Batman eventually got hold of the Joker, the story takes a weird turn and no body mentions anything concerning the Joker anymore, it feels like the Joker never even existed in this movie, it's like the audience is dumb or something. it felt to me like as the writer was writing the movie he was thinking "let's try to shoot down all of the principles of writing a story, no intro, no conflict, no conclusion, no closer, nothing. and we'll see how it goes". Two hours and a half of waiting for the moment when the super hero is gonna get that MF pretty good, and then i could discharge all of the anger caused by the movie by watching this villain dying or something, ended with nothing.

another thing, when did the characters switch rolls and the Joker become the cool tough guy and Batman become that big of a pussy. Even if we look at actors in the movie, the only one that was awful was Christian Bale who you'd think should be the best actor, or maybe i might have misunderstood the terms "star" and "main roll". then you look at Heath Ledger, he may rest in peace, who was nothing less than a genius in his roll. i could totally say that i hated Batman and loved the Joker just out of the actors' performance, not to mention again that Batman was stupid even in the movie.

Eventually and to be fair, i liked a couple of things that totally didn't make up for the bad things but it wouldn't be fair to be just on the bad side. As i mentioned before Heath Ledger did a great job and i personally think that no one would be better than him doing the Joker. Aaron Eckhart did a great job in the movie as well which gave the movie a couple of extra points. I liked a couple of lines from the movie like "things always get worse before they get better" and "live as a villain or die as a hero", but the overall was still bad.

and just to close with, and for those who defend the lack of conclusion or closer by saying it's a trilogy, and the end would be in the third part; A trilogy doesn't mean three episodes of one movie like a TV show or something, a trilogy consist of three movies that might fall into three eras or three locations...etc and those movies would concern the same characters or related characters, but that doesn't mean that each of those movies wouldn't have a full structure of a movie, other wise they would be three bad movies, and we have an example in our hands here.

Still trying as I promised

2008-07-08T17:23:00.000-07:00

Well it might still not be up to the quality I'm looking for (and it probably won't be up there for a while), but it will eventually and i will be able to incorporate my drawings with my graphic design skills. any feedback is appreciated.

Late is better than never

2008-07-02T13:28:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd give it a shot and try to draw again hopefully something out of my old skills is still there. After this quick digital painting i came to realize how dumb I've been since I neglected drawing, but that's it... I promise it's gonna always be there and it's gonna get better everyday.

I wasn't feeling gloomy or anything, it's just my love to the beauty of black that made me chose a crow to be my first painting after a long time.
no reference used, it's all out of the junk box between my shoulders.

A New Phase

2008-06-14T22:55:00.000-07:00

Today, or it would be more proper to say tonight, I'm blogging for the first time, although i had my blog up and running for quite a while now; My delay was partially caused by after-school laziness, and by me pursuing my practical and technical knowledge. It just seems like it's my way of compensating for my fluctuating mood, for example I would totally ignore reading and writing for a while on account of my technical and practical knowledge. As this phase extends i feel like my idea-making ability has started to go down, and that's when i realize that it's been too long since i practiced reading and writing. That's when i start doing both, reading and writing, till i have too many ideas in mind and i have to stop immediately and start making my ideas come to life.
well apparently I'm in the mood to write and read and here i am leaving my first mark on my blog.

"Coherent Support" a book cover design

2008-01-31T16:46:00.000-08:00

some logo design from the good old days

2008-01-05T12:40:00.000-08:00

Pop-Up Card

2007-12-31T08:37:00.000-08:00

a little squeeze-in project for the 3D problems solving class

Typographic Studies

2007-12-16T18:35:00.000-08:00

Final Reel

2007-12-07T16:51:00.000-08:00

A quick summing of a full motion graphics semester ...
i hope you guys would like it.

Rockport

2007-11-22T20:53:00.001-08:00

My participation piece for the competition, a 3D stand to launch the new torsion system by rockport and adidas.
It won first place.

How Does It Work?

2007-11-22T14:21:00.001-08:00

http://webspace.ringling.edu/~jlahham1/gc243/How%20does%20it%20work/inventor.html#

The Wood Drawing Mannequin

2007-11-22T14:15:00.000-08:00

A promotional web site of the wood drawing mannequin. the concept was humanizing the toy to give it more dimensions than just being a little piece of wood. i hope no one takes the joke in the website offensively, it's just for the purpose of giving the toy some sense of humor; enjoy

A Sense Of Place

2007-11-22T14:13:00.000-08:00

A visual translation of a sense of place. Each student has to spend at least 10 hours in one place and note everything, from what he could see and hear, to what materials and surfaces in this place feel like. Those observations have to consider the changes over the time from opening time to closing time as well. I'm gonna show some spreads from the book, and there's a website which is the same book in an animated website form. click here for the web page

Animator Jamil Lahham

2007-11-22T14:07:00.000-08:00

http://jamillahham.com/

Frenetic Synaesthetic

2007-11-22T11:22:00.000-08:00

A visual translation for a given sound piece.

BBC Logo

2007-11-22T09:37:00.000-08:00

La Musica

2007-11-21T23:35:00.000-08:00