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Business Cards & Stationary; because Cards & Invitations is slanted towards personal designs rather than corporate.

In my hurry to update, I seem to have forgotten my manners.

First of all, Arabesque is an amazing book that showcases designs featuring Arabic calligraphy, as well as artwork of Persian and Middle Eastern backgrounds.
Really, I feel drawfed having my work there amongst such brilliant pieces of work. You can get a taste of what to expect from the book’s homepage.
If you spot it on a bookshelf somewhere, I recommend checking it out.

And I just wanted to thank Ben Wittner, for contacting me and offering me this oppurtunity to publish my humble work amongst artists of mammoth talents.

Thank you, Ben!

Having a sabbatical year in Boston.

All this time while I was away I was preparing for it. I wish I could say I dropped everything and flew, but it wasn’t so. It took long planning and laborous preperation but, with God’s aid, I finally made it.
I’m still settling down (the internet took two weeks to install in this place!), and will need to iron a few business related kinks before I’m back in the game.

Also, during my few days layover in London, I finally found a copy of Arabesque, which contains two of my illustrations. I’ve added them to the illustrations section.

I stupidly skipped buying a copy cause I figured I’d find it in most bookstores here. Oh well, I could still order a copy online.

I had to delete the previous post (re: UAE Designer’s Exhibition). The person arranging it had been requested by her senior to arrange for it after Ramadan, that’s sometime after September, and she wasn’t too happy about it. Moreover, it was drawing spam comments; 583 comments to be precise, which remained invisible under moderation until I deleted them.

I’m not bothered by the fact that the exhibition date was moved, yet I find it uncanny how many things have been cancelled for me latey for circumstance outside the clients’ hands.
One client cancelled a proposal for a logo because she transferred from one department to another and was no longer in charge of the project. Another cancelled a request that I design her wedding invitation because her mother-in-law wants to have them made to her tastes. Finally, this exhibition - which I was going to participate in - is postponed.

So for the past weeks I’ve been pouring over and preparing for dead-end projects. But that’s just kismet - I suppose the past two months weren’t meant to be productive.

But that’s not the only reason I stopped blogging at the moment. My life is somewhat on hiatus now - I’m in transition. I’m busy not doing much of anything but waiting. I’m not sure what the next couple of months will be like, but all will be revealed in good time. I wish I could say more but from experience, whenever I talk about something prematurely, it doesn’t come to pass. 
But to be honest, the suspense is killing me.
I guess this means more sparse updates until everything falls into place. Sorry.

I got nothing to update with cause all the news I got are pending.

So here\’s what I thought I\’d post to pass time until then:

Leave a comment telling me how you first came across this blog (or website) and I\’ll answer a question you ask in the best way I can manage.