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There is something particularly fascinating about designing a cover for a book that has already occupied the imagination of generations. Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl(بوف کور) is one of those rare literary works that resists easy interpretation. It is a novel of obsession, isolation, fragmented memory, and the gradual disintegration of reality. Its imagery is […]
READ ARTICLE →This is my beast mode track. The one I put on when I need to switch everything else off and go into full fucking beast mode. “Frontlines” by Diabolic featuring Immortal Technique is one of those tracks where the aggression isn’t just in the delivery. It’s in the density of the thinking. Diabolic comes in […]
READ ARTICLE →There is a blueprint for a successful life. Nobody remembers who drew it, nobody seems particularly interested in questioning it, and yet nearly everyone is expected to follow it. The instructions are remarkably straightforward. Perform well in school. Attend a respectable university. Obtain a degree. Find stable employment. Earn progressively more money. Find a suitable […]
READ ARTICLE →When spring begins to warm the ground, the silence hums, a sacred sound. A breeze, a breath, not gone, but passed from form to form, too pure to last. They are not lost. They are the flame that flickers on without a name. They drink from stars we cannot see, and whisper through the willow […]
READ ARTICLE →Some relationships are difficult to explain. You meet, you argue, you learn from one another, you eventually go your separate ways, and years later, through some inexplicable twist of fate, you find yourselves together again. Mine is with WordPress. Nearly fifteen years ago, when I was a junior designer, part of my job involved fixing […]
READ ARTICLE →There are goodbyes we remember for the rest of our lives, and there are goodbyes we never got to have. When my family left Iran for Canada, I left behind more than a country. I left behind my best friend, and an entire world of ordinary moments we had taken for granted. What I remember […]
READ ARTICLE →Somewhere along the way, Brutalism became a visual trend. Oversized typography, deliberately awkward layouts, harsh contrasts, exposed grids, and a seemingly endless fascination with raw concrete. What began as a philosophy was reduced to a collection of stylistic tricks. The irony is that Brutalism was never simply about looking brutal. Its origins lie in the […]
READ ARTICLE →It began, as many of my creative experiments do, with an entirely ridiculous idea. I wanted to compose a Soviet-style revolutionary anthem from the 1920s. Something enormous, militaristic, and almost comically self-important. A thousand men singing in unison, a thunderous brass orchestra, relentless percussion, and lyrics consisting entirely of invented words. The music was to […]
READ ARTICLE →There is a peculiar phenomenon in contemporary graphic design. We have an extraordinary abundance of tools, typefaces, templates, tutorials, and software capable of producing increasingly sophisticated visual compositions. Yet one of the most elementary principles of typographic organization remains surprisingly misunderstood: the baseline grid. Ask a designer about kerning, and they will probably have an […]
READ ARTICLE →There is something profoundly unsettling about a room full of people laughing at something that isn’t particularly funny. A performer smiles, the orchestra plays, the audience applauds, and somewhere beneath the velvet curtains and theatrical lighting, something has gone terribly wrong. Nobody seems especially concerned. The champagne is still flowing. That was the world I […]
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