DannyK // Design Blog & Portfolio

Guggenheim Books Digitized and Free!

DannyK — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:55:51 +0000

The Guggenheim Museum has offered a nice gesture especially for designers and artists by digitizing many of it’s out-of-print books and presenting them for free, according to the news by Imprint magazine:

Guggenheim Offers Free Books! — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers.

Definitely worth a look!

Filed under: Design, Graphic Design, Uncategorized Tagged: art, Book, book cover, designer, free, graphic design, print

“Greener” paper cup with no plastic cover!

DannyK — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:03:54 +0000

I found this article on Fastcodesign.com about a new disposable paper cup without a plastic lid, which makes it a bit “greener”.

This cup is designed by Peter Herman, who partnered with Daren Bascome, of graphic-design firm Proverb, to form Compleat.

Source: Fastcodesign.com

Here’s more at:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665594/startup-radically-reinvents-the-disposable-coffee-cup-eliminating-plastic-lids

Filed under: Design, Graphic Design, Green Design Tagged: coffee, cover, cup, Design, eco, ecological, green, packaging, paper, sustainable

iPhone tip 1: Undo typing text.

DannyK — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:48:45 +0000

The iPhone with iOS 3.0 and later has an Undo/Redo feature for typing.
To undo your last change, simply shake your mobile. To redo your last change, just shake the iPhone again.

[I actually found that out by coincidence]

Neat!

Filed under: Mac & iPhone (new), Technical Tagged: feature, iPhone, redo, shake, text, tip, trick, typing, undo

Designing on Benches in Hamra Street! UPDATE!

DannyK — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:32:08 +0000

The two benches I have designed-on and executed in Hamra street:

One is at the corner near Jack & Jones (Modca corner) and the other is facing Fransabank on the right side of the street.

The first bench tries to capture the spirit of Hamra, the energy & hype, the lights, the crowd, the restaurants and pubs during the day and at night.

While the second bench is a typographical interpretation of a quotation from Steve Jobs.

The quote says:

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something” ~ Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005

Once you read the quote and walk past it, you can look back at the bench and connect the black dots to read something else…

Images © Danny Khoury 2011

I knew I wanted to design the bench with a typographical approach using an inspirational quotation, but I couldn’t come up with anything yet that day. I woke up that morning with the sad news that Steve Jobs passed away, so it came to my mind to use one of his inspiring quotes. I thought it would also pay tribute to him that way too. It is a really interesting that even by passing away, he inspired me to do this design.

I hope you enjoy both benches.

Filed under: Design, Graphic Design, My NEWS Tagged: Apple, art, Beirut, bench, concrete, connect, Danny, Design, designer, dots, graphic design, Hamra, Hamra street, illustration, Jobs, Khoury, public space, quotation, quote, spray, steps, Steve, Steve Jobs, street, trust, vinyl

i Apple Steve Jobs

DannyK — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:22:19 +0000

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Apple, Danny, graphic design, Jobs, Khoury, poster, Steve

Designing on Benches in Hamra Street!

DannyK — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:57:46 +0000

As part of Hamra Street Festival Maraya 2011 follow up events, I will be designing / painting on 2 of the concrete benches recently placed. One will be at the corner in front of Jack & Jones and the other will be near Fransabank.

Two other selected artists – Dalia Baassiri and Nisreen Mohtar – will be there too to work on 2 other benches each.

Painting of the benches that were placed on Hamra Str. during Maraya 2011 will take place on Tuesday & Wednesday October 4th & 5th, 2011 and is sponsored by Blom bank, Credit Bank & Fransabank.

Pass by and take a look. Pictures will be posted later.

Filed under: Graphic Design, My NEWS Tagged: art, bench, concrete, Danny, festival, graphic design, Hamra, Hamra street, Khoury, public space

InDesign right-indent: How to right-align text or page numbers in a left-aligned paragraph (eg. table of contents)

DannyK — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:23:34 +0000

Here’s a tip if you’re working in InDesign on a table-of-contents type of layout and you want to include in a text box both: text that is placed on the left side and a page number aligned on the right side.

The tip is, instead of adding space bars, or tabs and modifying them with the tab menu, or even trying to divide the text into different alignment, or making 2 text boxes, an easy way is to:

Insert the text in the text box that has to be on the left side, then go to: Type>insert special character>other>right indent tab (shortcut: shift + tab) and insert the page number or whatever text you want to be aligned to the right side!

Filed under: Design Applications (new), Technical Tagged: align, contents, indent, InDesign, numbers, page, Right, space, tab, table

Objectustrate illustration workshop with Seif Alhasani

DannyK — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:18:33 +0000

My work at Objectustrate workshop with Seif Alhasani at the Lebanese American University (Beirut) in April 2011

Innocent, harmful, playful, obedient?
Imaginative, harsh, fragile, or feelingless?
What happens when children become soldiers? Or at least be intertwined in a cause so much that they become manipulated in a game, and the game is their lives?
Wrong? right?
A cause?
What about effect?

This piece was made with multiple-layered cardboard and illustrating a contrast between two children placed in different contexts.
Choices made by elders become fate for their children.

Filed under: Design, Graphic Design, My NEWS Tagged: Beirut, cardboard, child, children, Danny, illustration, Khoury, L.A.U., LAU, objectustrate, paper, playing card, poster, Seif, social, soldier, soldiers, University, workshop

At the Edge of the City @ LAU Alumni Book Exhibition 2011

DannyK — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:09:55 +0000

More than 30 exhibitors at LAU – Beirut Campus (in front of the Safadi Fine Arts Building)

on Tuesday, May 24 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm

I will be presenting At the Edge of the City as the designer.

Be there to check it out if you haven’t already, and check out a collection of other books at the event.

For the full list of exhibitors goto LAU Alumni Book Exhibition 2011 on facebook

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Update:

Article at LAU website:

http://www.lau.edu.lb/news-events/news/archive/lau_alumni_exhibit_their_books/

Source: LAU website

Filed under: Design, Graphic Design, My NEWS Tagged: Book, Danny, Design, designer, exhibition, graphic design, Khoury, LAU

Paul Rand :: The Politics of Design

DannyK — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:16:21 +0000

I have encountered an interesting and inspirational article by Paul Rand.

Good to read for both, designers and clients…

“It is no secret that the real world in which the designer functions is not the world of art, but the world of buying and selling. For sales, and not design are the raison d’etre of any business organization. Unlike the salesman, however, the designer’s overriding motivation is art: art in the service of business, art that enhances the quality of life and deepens appreciation of the familiar world.”… read more at:

Paul-Rand.com :: The Politics of Design.

Filed under: Design, Graphic Design Tagged: art, client, Design, designer, good design, graphic design, idea, Paul Rand, politics