Ahmad Humeid CoFounder and CEO, SYNTAX At SYNTAX we love restaurant metaphors. Sometimes we are ACTUALLY working on restaurant brands and would LITERALLY be discussing restaurant ideas. But even when branding an architectural office, a tech company, a barbershop or even debating the nature of our own company or services, restaurant metaphors are often a […]
Just a few months ago, going through SYNTAX’s door, you’ll walk straight into a flurry of activity; heated conversations discussing a webpage or an app interface, a group reviewing logo sketches hung all over the wall are posing as art critiques, our COO stands at the edge of the designers’ space and jokes around with […]
Ahmad Humeid and Dina Haddadin talk about the curatorial process behind Amman Design in Week’s Hangar Exhibition.
Three weeks of my life, poured into 3 minutes of film Sure, you can simply see it as a promotional video for an educational institution (more about the project here). That’s totally fine. But there is something personal about this project that brings multiple threads of my life together. My old school (the University Model […]
Ahmad Humeid, Co-Founder and CEO, SYNTAX If you lived in the Arab region in the past few years, frustration must have become woven, in big and small ways, into the fabric of your daily reality. Regional conflicts and their resulting human tragedies, economic recession, bad governance and squandered human potential have all conspired to […]
The journey of transformation at SYNTAX continues in 2017. And we are ready to make some new hires. Over the past two years we have been steadily making changes to become a better run, efficient company. At the core we are still a company that runs on curiosity, courage, craft and community. But as […]
Recently I had the pleasure to give “career talks” at a number of private schools around Amman. You know; the kind of talk where you have to explain to high school kids what it is that you actually do. Now, SYNTAX’s portfolio spans over 18 years of design projects. When we show our portfolio to […]
For the past seven months, SYNTAX has been working on a project which I consider to be one of the most meaningful our company has handled in recent years: designing Amman’s first public transport map. As I write this, this map is being printed in a limited test quantity, to be distributed to Ammanis who […]
Honored to have been chosen as jury member of the 100 Best Arabic Posters competition, held with the support of the German University in Cairo. Excited to see the entries soon. If you have a great poster you want submit, then hurry up. The closing date is at the end of February. You just have […]
Since Uber launched in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2015, an “Uberification” craze has swept over the country’s services scene. Everyone now wants to launch the “Uber of this” or the “Uber of that”. It’s understandable of course. Here, finally, was a service on our smart phones that was hugely useful. I mean, just […]