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Launching of SCENE | س

2011-12-14T21:36:00.000+02:00

My scarce posting lately on this blog and on SnapShotScenes is mostly due to my endeavoring around Beirut busy streets making actual products of my illustrations and prototypes.

Scene |س is the place, the object, the product, the brand,... where I put my entrepreneurial adventure together with my design and illustration and love for Beirut.

Scene | س , a new Lebanese Brand focusing on beiruty scenery and Arabic typography.

to be continued...

حرّية و حياة - Posters : Freedom and Life

2011-12-08T00:30:00.000+02:00

Spread the revolution from the walls of your home.

(Order your prints with the sizes you want)
These posters and more will be available during our "Follow the Red Balloon" Fair from 16 Dec. to 20 Dec. at Hazmieh centre Mallat, Centre Libanais de L'image. Come!
Facebook Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/268707483182190/

Return of the Kite

2011-10-24T19:58:00.001+03:00

ManCityBoom

2011-05-19T16:01:00.000+03:00

Experiment with Fish - Damask Fish Pattern

2011-01-19T17:18:00.003+02:00

Take a fish, turn it around, duplicate, play some more, get a shape. Now repeat. and again. and again...

Experiment with Face and Space

2011-01-11T14:26:00.001+02:00

Sunday afternoon (while watching a romantic comedy)

2010-11-23T16:21:00.001+02:00

Sketchbook - at the mall

2010-11-18T10:22:00.000+02:00

The Bald Listening Crowd

2010-10-25T16:50:00.002+03:00

Virtual man decides to go visit the virtual city

2010-10-19T16:29:00.007+03:00

Snapshot of a Virtual man in a real village (Rejmeh, Lebanon) wearing the same pants but different shirts, let's say, on 2 consecutive days.

Virtual man wearing a white shirt goes to a virtual city were the trees are aligned but not the buildings. In the virtual city, people have big TV screens with bad or scrambled signal;

Snapshot of the virtual man turning his back to the TV screen.

Virtual man dreams, but dreams are virtual.

WATER IS LIFE IS WATER - BLOG ACTION DAY

2010-10-15T11:41:00.004+03:00

Print this WATER IS LIFE IS WATER Sticker for your kitchen or bathroom
as a reminder to close the running tap water when you do not need it.

(Today is blog action day)

Virtual Happy Couple in their 50s

2010-09-29T12:23:00.003+03:00

Snapshot of Virtual Happy Couple in their 50s in a virtual setting.

Snapshot of Virtual Happy Couple in their 50s during virtual holidays to Moscow in front of St Basil Church (Real setting)

Seasons and a 5th for no reason

2010-07-27T16:32:00.002+03:00

The great thing about scribbling is that I scribble and afterwards I see what I actually did. Sometimes, I would just keep it as it is, here, I put some color on using photoshop, emphasizing things more.
So, among many other things, ... it's obviously a landscape of somewhere where pigs are happier then birds and where if you happened to look up you actually see the reassuring smiling face (even if he's raining)

Virtual Family Portrait

2010-07-14T17:00:00.001+03:00

Virtual Family Snapshot all members looking OK

Virtual Family Portrait during a trip to the Cedars

Virtual Family Portrait in the Virtual Living Room

Zeina's Key Chain

2010-05-31T20:15:00.000+03:00

...And I do have a useless key too in my already heavy key chain

Auto-portrait (without a Mirror)

2010-05-10T21:22:00.003+03:00

I draw myself drawing myself while waiting at the dentist's for my turn. Sorry, nothing was more inspiring then my feet in this room!

Snap Shot Scenes

2010-04-29T08:59:00.002+03:00

I started a new photo blog, with some thoughts on the city, space and people that come across my path, you can check that out here

"Kteb Zghir",a Musical Play : Poster- Website- Invitation- Tickets

2010-04-14T16:31:00.001+03:00

Finally, "Kteb Zghir" is playing this Sunday and Monday at the forum de Beirut, got your invitations? if not, hurry for the last tickets (available at virgin ticketing).
Such a inspiring project done with the contribution of a lot of people (really more then 100!)
fingers crossed for the first show on Sunday! :)

Cityscape and a Balloon Kite

2010-04-13T18:07:00.001+03:00

Let's picnic by the cliff and fly a Kite this afternoon

2010-03-25T12:59:00.001+02:00

Imagine time passing and the sun standing still...

2010-03-02T15:55:00.001+02:00

Three Kites

2010-02-25T12:49:00.001+02:00

Three kites, Three people, Three mountains and an infinity of sky and ocean.

Heart pulling machine pushing hand to action.

2010-01-27T10:52:00.008+02:00

sometimes, rarely, you feel that everything is possible, it is then that you should act, fast, before that feeling fades.

Absolut Greece

2010-01-18T21:30:00.007+02:00

Today winter started for real in Lebanon.
Weather forecast: one week heavy rain... so I stayed home (with my laptop), going thru past photos,
summer photos (I do not seem to be missing winter at all, sorry earth!) and holidays in Greece.
For Athenians, their islands are the best place to spend summer; and I do agree.
... Thus, winter time exercise is Absolut Greece. YEY!

You Can't Face Willem, You can't quit.

2010-01-02T19:35:00.004+02:00

Christmas comes with a lot of gifts and wrappings,
this cardboard came wrapping a wine glass coming with the bottle in a box.
Laid on the table it reminded me of a "W" thus came the following:

Then, I started experimenting and looking for shapes and letters,

trying to make sense of it all. so,...

do not let Willem (De Kooning or Dafoe) get to you,

you have got to do what you have got to do.

Stitch

2009-12-08T12:52:00.002+02:00

Stitch, sew, knit, weave, fix, block.

Kites again

2009-12-04T12:34:00.002+02:00

Woman 1 - Woman 2 - Woman 3

2009-11-10T12:10:00.001+02:00

for a better view i am re-posting the illustrations of the triptych one after the other, thou I like them more side by side.

(quite a change in emotions after the cute calendar girl, Lola.)

woman

2009-11-10T12:04:00.002+02:00

Triptych - illustration, scans and photoshop.

Calendar 2010

2009-11-08T14:42:00.001+02:00

How Lola met her cat or a handy calendar & note book.

Flying Kites

2009-10-12T18:26:00.002+03:00

Let's go do nothing

2009-09-15T21:28:00.007+03:00

On a boat going to Paros, Greece... the ease of holidays; People sleep, drink coffee, hold hands, look at the horizon or... take photos, almost doing nothing to spend time on a boat before getting to the Island's beaches and spend time abundantly, doing nothing. Almost.

My summer bag sketched and wallpapered

2009-08-04T17:05:00.001+03:00

Aspiration 3

2009-07-22T16:47:00.001+03:00

Aspiration 2

2009-07-15T15:30:00.001+03:00

Inspiration of a Meeting and/or an Aspiration

2009-06-24T16:04:00.001+03:00

Anticipate

2009-06-04T10:43:00.001+03:00

For what happens if the things i see start fading

away

becoming memories

(cherished memories)

or just another forgotten day

Trying to stop, stop everything

Failing to stop, stop everything

and I go

Elections at the most surprising places

2009-06-01T21:15:00.001+03:00

First, Ellina always have sexy ads on this turn of the damascus highway, usually it is a sexy female body with some not so sexy lingerie. This is their latest ad, Perfectly Wild ad, Perfectly out of place, Perfectly vulgar. Second, did Salam Maamari, a candidate for a Aley seat in the parliament, or his supporters really had to have his poster in that (close) spot?

Surprise! just out of nowhere from the middle of the last green spot of the mountain, a huge Unipole.

Family Trip

2009-05-26T11:54:00.002+03:00

I was in a car behind, and thought "3 people on a motorbike, that can be dangerous", though this is not very uncommon in Beirut.

then we decided to skip that slow vehicle and stay away from possible trouble... surprise it is 5 people on board!

خلّيني مدبرس مبسوط

2009-05-21T16:32:00.000+03:00

خلّيني مدبرس مبسوط
لشو الإزعاج، ما أنا هيك مرتاح
شو ضروري كل يوم إضحك،
وإفرح وإسهر و...ما هوي لازم اكسر الروتين
بكم يوم احباط... وبيمشي الحال

حلْ عني اذا بتعمل معروف
خلّيني وحدي مدبرس مبسوط
بوكرا شي نهار بدق إلك
منضهر، منضحك، منسهر منفرح
بس مش اليوم
خلّيها لغير نهار
دخيل عرضك بس متكون
بفترة إحباط وحدك وتقول
خلّيني مدبرس مبسوط

معقول حسّ بإزعاج

Fashion Victims Confined in a Window

2009-05-21T11:10:00.002+03:00

Presentation & Representation:

Plastic that resembles Reality that is Plastic

Lifting of the logo of the P'ti Nid daycare

2008-12-02T11:53:00.002+02:00

The main request for this lifting was to have less orange (due to the political connotation of the color) and change the typo while keeping the same logo.

Bake cake not violence

2008-11-27T11:14:00.003+02:00

Black ink on recycled colored paper posters

Saturday Morning Walk

2008-11-20T09:08:00.001+02:00

When you are an old lady walking at the corniche with a cane in one hand, a bent back, and eyes that can only see what is in front of them, you think and you remember your youth... you remember when you could jog and when you had that gorgeous body ....

Library Reopening Promotional Bookmarks

2008-11-17T17:22:00.000+02:00

Logo Hearts Hands and Voices

2008-11-17T09:59:00.000+02:00

Theme 2008 logo for the cultural discussions program taking place throughout the year.

Logo Transformation

2008-11-11T09:52:00.001+02:00

Theme 2007 logo for the cultural discussions program taking place throughout the year.

Jiyyé Beach

2008-10-10T08:47:00.001+03:00

Cover - photo collage

2008-07-22T15:24:00.002+03:00

Cover Palmares 2007 - 2008.
It was fun taking the photos with the children:
1...2...3...jump! 1...2...3...jump!1...2...3...jump! 1...2...3...jump!1...2...3...jump!

The Sun is Shining

2008-07-08T13:08:00.002+03:00

Igor wants a pizza!

W Hizz

2008-07-08T12:43:00.001+03:00

The art of dancing while sitting

trials - different techniques

2006-12-20T11:44:00.000+02:00

El Leil Wal Andil: The promotional bookmarks and the tickets

2006-09-21T14:45:00.003+03:00

The five bookmarks are colored from one side and duotone on the other side.

The ticket

Poster for Play: Al Leil Wal Andil (the night and the lantern)

2006-06-22T10:13:00.005+03:00

in the tunnel

2006-05-04T11:25:00.000+03:00

A Day at Nursery.

2006-03-20T14:52:00.000+02:00

two times two

2006-02-13T16:19:00.000+02:00

Trekking at Mount Knaiseh- Lebanon

2006-01-18T11:39:00.000+02:00

Maya's twin sister

2006-01-18T11:03:00.000+02:00

I used to have the same doll as this one, except it was dressed with blue.

Arabic calligraphy in the fruit and vegetable market.

2005-12-15T12:58:00.000+02:00

Stamp

2005-12-09T10:55:00.001+02:00

Stamp design part of one course of the UNESCO digiarts Master Class I am taking.

Karim

2005-12-05T14:06:00.001+02:00

Illustration for the C.A.T. Monthly Newsletter

2005-11-15T13:15:00.000+02:00

The Actual Bouquet and the Drawing:

2005-11-01T14:51:00.001+02:00

I made the drawing by hand and the color in Photoshop.

Diploma - TV ad for Gemmayze

2005-10-11T22:13:00.000+03:00

The ad is divided into two parts, creating a contrast between the first 8 seconds that are daily images we see in a modern 21st century city and the next 22 sec. that take us inside Gemmayze which is a street in the middle of Beirut but where people still enjoy taking their time and going just as they please in a beautiful surrounding.

Maasser El Chouf

2005-09-29T12:32:00.000+03:00

Maasser El Chouf, Lebanon, 2003

2005-09-29T12:29:00.000+03:00

Maasser El Chouf, Lebanon, 2003

2005-09-29T12:28:00.000+03:00

Maasser El Chouf, Lebanon, 2003

2005-09-29T12:19:00.000+03:00

Old couple at Maasser El Chouf, Lebanon, 2003

2005-09-29T12:12:00.000+03:00

Kids from the village, Maasser El Chouf, Lebanon, 2003

2005-09-29T12:07:00.000+03:00

Old woman sitting on white sofa, Maasser El Chouf, Lebanon, 2003

2005-09-29T11:40:00.000+03:00

two druzes woman, Maasser El Chouf, Lebanon, 2003

WHITE SKY PORTRAITS

2005-09-29T11:32:00.000+03:00

Portrait with white sky as background

2005-09-29T11:31:00.000+03:00

Portrait with white sky as background

GRANDMOTHER PORTRAITS

2005-09-29T11:01:00.000+03:00

2004

2005-09-29T10:59:00.001+03:00

PORTRAIT

2005-09-29T10:57:00.000+03:00

2004

This is a spontaneously made photo of a friend; I made it when we were in a car; you can see the shadow of the stripes from the back window on her shoulder and face.

Gemmayzé St., Beirut

2005-09-28T21:25:00.000+03:00

Gemmayze 2005

Maya's twin sister

2005-09-28T11:03:00.000+03:00

I used to have the same life-like doll as this one, except it was dressed with blue.

Photo: Nature morte

2005-09-27T12:25:00.001+03:00

I am not the biggest fan of still life kind of images, but I had such colors in front of me i took the photo. I love: the contrast and the reflexion.

University project- The city of Aley

2005-09-19T15:12:00.000+03:00

Press ad for ALEY, that is a city in the mountain of Lebanon very alive during summer (full of tourists) and more quiet in the rainy winter season; thus the slogan: Summer crazy, winter Lazy.

These are 5 pictures i took and joined together on photoshop.
you can see the Balakin of Aley (Aley's balcony), newly restored where people, mainly couples, come to see the lovely view.

A Sports Center Brochure

2005-09-18T15:54:00.002+03:00

The cover of the brochure

Samples from the interior:

Illustration and Layout.

Karim

2005-09-05T14:06:00.000+03:00

SOME DRAWINGS

2005-08-29T13:44:00.000+03:00

Lefthanded

Drawing of right hand

2005-08-29T13:39:00.001+03:00

My Pen

2005-08-29T13:39:00.000+03:00

Leo, the cat

This is our new cat which stayed without a name for more than two weeks, at the end he decided to respond to LEO.

2005-08-29T13:04:00.000+03:00

Portrait

2005-08-29T12:49:00.000+03:00

Coffee and Tea at Rawda

2005-08-29T12:48:00.000+03:00

Communication

2005-08-29T12:47:00.001+03:00

Shepherd

SELF PORTRAIT

2005-08-16T21:12:00.002+03:00

Selfportraits: Me drawing Me drawing Me...

From Sketch Book

2005-08-12T10:41:00.000+03:00

on the floor

The girl with the gardenia neckless drinking tea

The guardians of the parliament

Portrait