Here’s an interesting little reminder that even supermodels don’t look like supermodels.

See the high resolution movie and an interactive “before and after” at campaignforrealbeauty.ca

Quoting one of the commenters on the video: “I don’t use Dove and never will - I’m a guy. However, anything that encourages young women to think of themselves as whole people instead of plastic models should be supported.”

So I’m on my pc, bored with not much to do at 10am in the morning, so I’m playing around with Adobe Photoshop fonts and thinking about that Fifa World Cup is coming soon, this is what I come up with using “Lord of the Rings” font, useful design for the win!

Something that I thought was worth blogging about is my cousin’s, Khaled Abu Ain’s graduation project for Graphic Design at Philadelphia University, under supervision by Dr. Eyad Alsaker, Professor Mohammad AbdulAl, Dr. Bashar Mardini, Faisal Al Omari, and Dr. Ziad Haddad. The project consists of a whole theme and logo redesign of Jordan TV. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier, and After Effects were programs that Khaled used through-out his design process.

Before you read my feedback below, I think you should watch the streaming Real Player video of Jordan TV running under the new theme and logo which were used with permission, and for those who have dialup, I’ve put up some screens showing the theme and logo he designed.

High-resolution streaming video (Real Player)

Low-resolution streaming video (Real Player)

Images:

Now, while the new theme and logo are definitely much better than Jordan TV’s current too blue theme and logo; better as in more modern, give it the more character that its supposed to have, it still feels too much Royal Jordanian to me, probably because of the red and golden colors along with the Royal crown. Though, Khaled has done a really great job, I’d like to tell him Congratulations in advance for graduating next semister and good luck with the presentation.

** P.S. This is just a graduation project, and not Jordan TV’s official theme nor logo.

Part 2… After printing the documents folder, the outcome was pretty neat. It feels really great as a designer to see your own design on print. I’ve taken some shots of the folder from all different views so you can see what it looked like.

Let me know what you think once more

Wish me luck on 24/1, that’s when I’ll present the folder to the design jury at uni.

Finally, after nearly 5 hours of continuous concentration on finishing my final project, which by the way I was supposed to turn in at uni . on 5th of January, my design for a documents folder is ready for print : ) The subject I picked for my design was Adobe, no better way to show gratitude to the makers of Photoshop and Illustrator.

Constructive criticism is encouraged, please let me know what you think.

Now wish me luck with the doc’s score, for she said that first year students who design their folders “on the computer” and not manually with poster colors, will most likely be penalized due to the high probability that they have had someone else design their folder for them, just how fair is that?

See these 3 voluntary designs me and my cousin Khaled designed for Risalitna Initiative, which soon after turned out they were in such a hurry and printed some old “weak and low-quality” design that they had before.