Redesign Arabia exhibition

Join us this Tuesday 11th of October at The Lab in Darat Al Funun, where we will be exploring the role of design, design thinking and designers in a post revolutionary Arab world.
We will be revealing the results of the “Free Arab Union Design Challenge”.


| Posted by Redesign Arabia

The Fusion of Arabic Type with Product Design

Bringing Arabic letters into furniture can produce exciting results. One Lebanese company which launched this year shows us how.


| Posted by Sandra Hiari

GO figure

The newest magazines to emerge from the proliferation of publications in Jordan in the last few years might just be the best. Listings magazine GO has been designed with readers, not art students, in mind


| Posted by Eddie Taylor

Lost Spaces: King Abdullah I Park

Wouldn’t it be great if we could reclaim lost spaces in our cities? This series aims to shed light on undesirable urban areas that make no positive contribution to their surroundings.


| Posted by Noura Salem

Lost Spaces: Building a Better Urban Oasis

The Housing Bank Park in Amman’s upscale neighborhood of Abdoun is well defended. While the evenly spaced grey bars of its fence would not deter even an unambitious climber, they form a striated membrane daunting enough to deflect causal visitors. Initially designed to resemble an urban oasis, the park hunkers … Read more


| Posted by Nina Curley

Shubbak festival features forward thinking talk on Arabia

In a few hours from now, discussions on the future of architecture in the Arab world are about to take place. We are taking a look at who’s


| Posted by Sandra Hiari

Updating the Pharaohs

With new beginnings in Egypt, we thought a new makeover for the suddenly struggling Egyptian national football team logo is in order.


| Posted by Eddie Taylor

East-West-East fusion by Nada Debs

Growing up in Japan, Nada Debs is a designer who returned back to her Lebanese origins – atypically from the Eastern part of the globe rather than the Western.


| Posted by Sandra Hiari

City branding in Arabia: The good, bad, and ugly

Although viewed as government institutions, municipalities of major cities in Arabia still have to brand themselves as the service providers that they are.


| Posted by Sandra Hiari

Can resistance be designed?

After realizing that Tahrir Square in Cairo was becoming more than just a demonstration space, citizens of the city redefined what public space means to them, and by that changed their country’s history.


| Posted by Sandra Hiari