My baby,Miu, running around at the my husband exhibision
\”For Your Eyes Only\” Light Art - Miu Virtual Tour

interesting stuff , check it out Traffic , Saratoga Bldg, Al Barsha

“For Your Eyes Only” Technology Light Art By James Clar Closes April 16th, 2009

The 3rd Art Dubai has opened to public from today, 19 March to 21 March,2009 at the Madinat Arena.
The Fair has become a cornerstone for the rapidly growing art community of the Middle East.

Art Dubai is featuring almost 2,000 artworks by 465 artists, more than 20 hours of arts-related discussions in the Global Art Forum, and 20 hours of video art installation showing in the underground Art Park.

more details at Art Dubai Website

This is one of the greatest opportunities to see many arts from all over the world and get inspired from them.

Because it is important that we all understand exactly what we hear and say, here is a short brand glossary of branding terms we commonly use.
just keep it as your reference, whenever you need it just come here and click on Brand Glossary under Categories

Brand Glossary

Brand A brand is a name, term, sign, symbol, association, trademark or design which is intended to identify the products or services of one provider or group of providers, and to differentiate them from those of competitors. A brand has functional and emotional elements which create a relationship between customers and the product or service.

Brand Attributes Brand attributes are the functional and emotional associations which are assigned to a brand by its customers and prospects. Brand attributes can be either negative or positive, and can have different degrees of relevance and importance to different customer segments, markets and cultures. Brand attributes are the basic elements for establishing a brand identity. 

Brand Audit A brand audit is a comprehensive and systematic examination of a brand involving activities (both tangible and intangible) to more…

This vedeo from Microsoft Office Labs shows what Microsoft thinks the world may look like a decade from now, in 2019.

Here are some links about web & desidn trends in this year which I think it’s worthwhile to take a look and read.

• Smashing Magazin: Web Design Trends For 2009
  Smashing Magazin: More Web Design Trends For 2009
  ** must check for web designers
  
  
• Just Creative Design: Logo Design Trends 2009
  
  

  Logo Design Trends 2009

• Baekdal: Web Trends 2009
  
• SEOptimise: 30 Web Trends for 2009
  
• Independent.ie: Tech Trends 2009
• Open Source Technology: 2008-2009 Web Trends - WEB 3.0

50 Minimal Sites are introduced at :
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/50-minimal-sites/

here are some of my favorites:

Somme

Made by Sofa

Studio Mikmik

Hana means “Flower” in Japanese.

This screensaver looks pretty cool. But! it’s only available for OSX. (Unfortunately I’m not mac user….)

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Hana is a dream about flowers for computers.

The idea is that no aspect of creating the flowers is hidden from the computers, everything is created in code and no bitmaps are used that the computer has not seen to the creation of itself, letting the computer “think” through every step.

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Download at >> http://www.hi-res.net/blog/2009/01/hana-osx-screensaver.html

Please show me if anybody have installed

An archive of book cover designs and designers.
http://www.bookcoverarchive.com/

You can browse by designers, titles, authors, art directors, photographers, illustrators, genres, publication dates, and publishers.

For your creative inspirations and design ideas!

The Book Cover Archive Site

Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won’t help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it.

The following diagam(The Elements of User Experience) was published on Jesse James Garrett’s Web site in 2000, Garrett has thoughtfully given texture, depth and meaning to a complex process. He has expanded the model through insight, not so much as a how-to guide, but as a thought-process guide–providing a backdrop for the decision-making processes that go into building a successful Web site.

The Elements of User Experience

My favorite design style is minimalist-style(Minimalism-design). I’m not sure becuase of my nationality, I like finding the beauty in simplicity.  I often feel “the less is the more”, but at the same time being simple and mimimal is hard to do since I have tendency adding things more and more.

Here are some elements about minimalist web design:

• simplicity, simple elegant - make the simple things simple
• clean and fine finishes
• use of the fonts
• use of the white space
• essential use of graphic - use graphics only when absolutely necessary
• the subject is reduced to its necessary elements
• using only a small number of shapes and color
• natural textures and colors
• sometimes use contrast colors for aesthetics, or to emphasize what is important
• easy to navigate
• use css (cascading style sheet) to make the pages smaller and load faster
• unique

Here are some minimalistic website designs I like;

poccuo.com	Kind Company
cravattificio.com	frieze magazine

BTW, speaking of minimalism, I like also minimal art & design, and my favorite artists are Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd , Dan Flavin and more… How about you, guys?

Also I feel the people in this region generally have a tendency to consider “The more the better”. Do you feel the same way?