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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/84/84051/attachment_84051669 "Theseus famously entered the labyrinth to slay the minotaur. I use a musical staff, and have the eye of a monster/minotaur peaking out. An illustrative, slightly retro alternative to clean icon based marks in this instance.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/32/3286/328650/a25587af-5b5b-411b-b186-88655c0b4d3a.jpg "This was a deeply challenging project, because of the vastness, depth, and historical significance of its subject. Corpus Christi — the body of the Christ. This mark was created for an established US-based church, in Chatham, NJ. Having explored a number of directions, we circled down upon this. A bold, courageous, non-conventional mark. I wanted to create something that would stand above millennia. But also something alive. I set my mind to journey, back through so many pathways, to the centre of the labyrinth of Christianity. Along the way, the jolts informed the mark. It is cut. Like the body of the Christ was cut. In one part, it ascends. Like the body of the Christ ascended. It looks outward. Across a landscape. Across history. It draws the viewer to interpret. To understand. And beyond these characteristics, it is silent and permanent.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/82/82330/attachment_82330981 "The client expressed a wish for a universe-related mark (stars, planets, galaxies, etc). I created a futuristic mark in which the circle expresses the basic law of gravity, and the blocks have the simplicity and monolithic aspect as if coming from a future time when language is much more efficient. At a second level, it is a monogram, with the top block representing the letter \"l\" and the two together representing the letter \"b\". Simple, clean and both memorable and distinctive.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/79/79560/attachment_79560479 "I pursued several directions for this contest, including an actual labyrinth, but this design is my favorite. I find the history of the labyrinth to be deeply fascinating. Labyrinths were often placed in the environs of cathedrals, and on the flyleaves of scriptural manuscripts, representing a passageway from the profane to the sacred. The labyrinth was an encounter, representing both potential and danger. In Greek mythology, the minotaur resided at the centre: half-bull, half-man, this archetype was allegorical of man's journey into himself. When Theseus slays the minotaur, it represents the taming of the unruly in the domain of men. Which in itself is its own tragedy. In this design I respond to the idea of the encounter, and our bearing towards the labyrinth. I create a timeless face: the man armed with reason who is facing his monsters. Sadly I was passed over in this contest, which I regret because I would have loved to have worked on this project. It's nature fits me completely.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/79/79453/attachment_79453877 "In this design I was aiming for maximal efficiency, reducing the concept to a bare essence. The outcome is a distinctive, evocative, memorable and iconic mark.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/79/79352/attachment_79352266 "The owner of the business wished to depart from traditional icons and graphics associated with the real estate sector, and to emphasise luxury and feminine as characteristics in their brand design. The deer is a classic symbol of heritage, old money, refinement, beauty and elegance. Here I create a geometrical and abstracted head of a deer, using the arrangement to echo \"V.\" It is light and feminine in its curves, while refined and memorable. The simple sans serif typeface compliments the mark and speaks of professionalism, value and quiet confidence.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/79/79091/attachment_79091224 "Admittedly, the client was seeking playful, and this is something else, which is likely why they chose another direction. But I love this little mark. Monochrome, with shadows cut out, it has strong dimensionality. The project concerns documentation of Microsoft's cloud computing platform. As well as speaking to \"apex\", I wanted to use dimensionality in the mark to convey levels and layers. It needed to be efficient, and simple, so I create this using two triangles, which along with the meaning of apex convey connectedness and interdependency.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/79/79055/attachment_79055548 "A simple but evocative visual interpretation of ascension. Both classical and modern, I wanted to create a mark that is both serene and profound. Created for a Lutheran church community in Rochester, Minnesota, in the United States.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/78/78975/attachment_78975751 "An abstract, Cubist interpretation of Arturo Di Modica's \"Charging Bull\" that stands in Bowling Green Park in Lower Manhattan, New York City. An elegant, unique, economic and artistic character mark in a business domain dominated by monograms.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/78/78777/attachment_78777637 "\"The quintessence of genesis as nature is transition, the unity of coming forth and passing away, and the latter essentially occurs in the same, in disclosure, because disclosure is conjointly and essentially concealment … that which is beaten into limits.” — Martin Heidegger. I can say about this design that it took me over 10 years to arrive to it. And it is perhaps my favorite design out of everything I’ve ever done. The negative space is essential, of course — the background. Epoch. A division of time. You could inverse the image and it would be the same. Black to white, white to black. Admittedly difficult for real world use: it needs space. But it’s so accurate. Some may see nothing. But know its intent, and take away the word. It’s there. I see silence and the first primary movements of time.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/77/77836/attachment_77836104 "The client is a videography and photography company that specialises in cinematic storytelling and \"timeless, modern art work.\" I play with the correspondence between Kanue and canoe, in a monoline K that is intended also as a abstracted figure with an oar, rowing in a river.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/77/77670/attachment_77670985 "This was somewhat whimsical. The publisher deals with historical as well as contemporary fiction, and my mind jumped back around 200,000 years. I was thinking about the primary motion shapes of a rabbit, and arrived to this, which reflects a kind of aesthetic one might have seen in cave paintings. The client went in a different direction, but I like this aesthetic and wish I could experience the kind of visual outlook that represented reality, at the dawn of the age of man, in this manner.")
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Senior Cairo-based designer, influenced by Rothko, VOMIR and Bill Viola. Great design is closer to sculpture than painting. I'm always trying to take something away — to reduce things down to their essence.
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