Korean Coffee Hour!

A poster for Parkland College event, Contemporary, clean simple and hummers.
designed my my self Mohamed Dardiri, where i wanted to communicate korean by using the flag colors and just be cute.  

Indonesian Coffe Hour!

Aposter for parkland College event, it was designed my my self, I have used the Indonesian colors from the flag and also the bird looking symbol from their old flag to design a contemporary poster, and the reason for the lines on the write was to balance the bird and to hols the word "HOUR" because it was about to fall down.

Brasil Coffe Hour!

This was the poster for the Brazilian Coffee Hour that was held at Parkland College. I have designed this poster to be Swiss and contemporary, for a very long time I have wanted to use the letters in a cut out box. and i think I have succeeded in this poster.  

Cobra sport

Parkland College Cobras, the athletics department. I have designed this poster for them as a concept for a series of poster that cover all the sports, they will be basketball, volleyball and all the other sports that the college provide. the photography was made posible by Tammala King. I was influenced by contemporary design and the idea of showing the athletes in a professional look. I just had had that idea or vison of the concept and i think it had came out really good.       

ESL can be made in Swiss

this is a book cover designed for the ESL program at parkland college. Swiss influenced, where the colors represent the season (spring.)
designer: Mohamed Dardiri.

Tiepolo

A poster design made to promote the font Tiepolo, I design it based on the gride concept, also Swiss design. clean and simple. the pen had been added to resumable the uniqueness of the font, because the font look like it hand written. 

Buzz- Swiss style

 Buzz magazine concept design for their spacial issue of the local music guide. I have came up with the idea of the cover while i was learning about Josef Muller Brockmann, so it is only fair to acknowledge him as the mean influence of the design by the music poster concept. clean, consistant simple gride that makes the people make up the message.Swiss.

where is ART? 40North 88West

I know my blog is a video, not an image. however,while I was surfing the web,( surface51.com) that had lead me to explore and learn about 40 North 88 West. I have stumbled on to this video that was made to promote art and sponsorship by 40 North 88 West.
The simplicity of the message and the way it is delivered are brilliant, and they could have never been accomplished without the ingenues of graphic design. This also translate to contemporary at its best-I believe.
PLease look up this sites:

40north.org

surface51  check out the portfolio page, its amazing...enjoy

    

I am my own wife

I have found then scanned this strong image that had won an award in 2010 for graphic design.

It had caught my attention because of the strong message that the designer had succeeded to deliver and showed us how strong that woman is.  He succeeded by to do so by using constructivism style of design, " a solid red background to symbolize authority, the black motifs are a mixture of communist symbol that translate to a revolution, and also the use of the swastika, the Nazi symbol that symbolize dominance.

The designer had thought very well of the image that he so creating, he was so clever that he included a nickels to the figure to imply that she is a woman. The white nickels also complemented and balanced the type font. All I can say about the typeface is, it is defiantly matching the mood of entire image.    

(Image was scanned from Print Mag. Dec. 2010 Issue)

ACT

This Image was made for  Environmental graphics for Nelson Mandela  by the design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates.
I just thought that this is a great example pf typography, and how is can be used in graphic design.
the design looks very simple and easy to make, but I dont think so, they were a lot of thoughts and time that had been put into this so it can look so simple.
very will organized.










Image was scanned from Print mag, issue of Dec 2010

Japan Day

Parkland College is hosting the event Japan day in the Flag Lounge on November 3rd, and here is the flyer for the event.

The designer had designed this flyer based on the swiss international style (simple, objective and HELVETICA).

Designer: Mohamed Dardiri

3OH3!

3 OH!3'S STREET OF GOLD

Designers Nichola Motte and Anderw Kimmell's, they had design the best album cover art of 2010.
The cover was designed for a Colorado electro-pop that Motte's brother play in it.
The hand gesture is the band symbol (303) very nice right!
and the golden skin was to resemble the streets of gold.

The picture was scanned from the graphic design magazine (print December 2010)

My favorite graphic artiest, Abas Al-bagdadi

This font is called (Al Naskh) and that mean COPY, and that is because all of the letters are written very clean with their orignal integrity. enjoy. 

Wall Relief- NBC Building, Chicago.

please click on the image enlarge it 

I have found this interesting relief on the wall of the television channel NBC in chicago. It was influenced by the incent Egyptians, It have a great deal of rhythm.
A great graphic design relief.
What I still don't understand is, who is the God?

Beautiful unknown logo.

I have found this image -logo- on my friend's t.shirt,
I really don't know the designer neither the company
However, I the design was intriguing by its simple design and execution.
   

The Mosque of the two Niles- Sudan, Africa

A look from the outside

The top of the dome 

The sides of the walls

This fascinating architectural marvel was built in Sudan in the year 1984, and it was designed completely based on graphic design fundamentals inside and out (Islamic geometric art) .

I have took these picture when i was visiting sudan in 2010.  

U of I print shop

This is an example of an old letter press machine at the University of Illinois that is not in use anymore; however, I have been told that they use it some time to make honorary doctor certificate.

I think it is fascinating to learn about how hard it use to be to print.

U of I printing shop

This is an example of an old letter press machine at the University of Illinois that is not in use anymore; however, I have been told that they use it some time to make honorary doctor certificate.
I think it is fascinating to learn about how hard it use to be to print.

Arabic Islamic Calligraphy Art

Hello every one! I have found this really nice video giving a glans on Arabic calligraphy. I just thought you might appreciate it some of the art especially that Arabic calligraphy is rarely mentioned.
Enjoy!