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, 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 […]
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 […]
Today, SYNTAX got the green light to announce the release of the public beta of Wamda, the entrepreneurial mega hub that has kept us buy for the last 7 months. This project not only has the potential to transform the entrepreneurial scene of the region, but it has already transformed SYNTAX. I have just posted […]
Ex-SYNTAXer and pioneering blogger Roba Assi shares here experience on being initiated in the tricky world of design. Want a real-world, passionate and engaged advice on how to start your design career? Roba gives it away.. Our first few months (or years) on the job are always a little shocking. We discover how the client […]
Today, we get to lift the curtain, just a little bit, and start the launch process for one of the most interesting and challenging project we’ve ever worked on at SYNTAX. Together with our friends at Spring, we’ve been commissioned to build what hopefully will become the region’s most comprehensive, dynamic and interactive entrepreneurial hub. […]
Behold: 12 years of junk. We founded SYNTAX in 1998. The year the first iMac (and my first son) was born. We’ve been in our Wadi Saqra office since 2000. A decade already. When we moved in, we barely had the money to put in partitions. We always said, we’re too busy with client work […]