AD Environmental Atlas
A major project that lasted for over 3 years and was produced in two languages, Arabic & English, during this period I had the privilege of working with a large and unique collection of environmental scientists, project managers, authors, cartographers, photographers, artists and graphic designers from all around the world, this project in fact shows not just my graphics and photo manipulation skills, but an excellent example of teamwork, 3D modeling and texturing, then finally production skills as well.
Main roles and responsibilities in this project included:
- Building the Indesign styles structure for both languages
- Producing ground cross sections graphically telling a story
- Monitoring and managing the print quality of all produced graphics
- Technical support for all creative team
- Print and production of the final product
Arab Giving Survey & Report
YouGov & Philanthropy Age
Given the fact that it contains lots of data that needs to be presented graphically, it was not an easy task, many people in the design field would run away from such a complex project.
Working solely on such a project requires excellent planning and very accurate attention to details. A complete read through and understanding the data is an important factor to present it in a simple and understandable way.
Another part of my responsibilities as a production manager was the printing of this report. To do so, i made sure to use print friendly colours, over-print when needed, write a grip script to eliminate runts, avoid widows and orphans, planed use of paragraph styles to generating an automatic TOC, and finally selecting the right stock to print on.
Invest Cover & Animation
Invest magazine is a digital magazine available through apple store, i was assigned the task of creating the cover artwork and animation of issue 12. Also, provide technical guidance to the studio in designing another feature cover design (Reinventing Money "the digital coin")
The challenge was to create the futuristic yet realistic cover design that reflects the cover feature "The Future of transport" and be able to animate its elements. keeping in mind that the full animation is based on still images, with zero use of videos.
The process was done in few main stages:
1) Understand the creative brief and create cover artwork
2) Prepare an achievable story board with the available materials
3) Prepare the cover artwork and the rest of featured articles for animation
4) Create the animation, select and edit a suitable music and sound effects
5) Produce the video in 4 languages, English, Arabic, Russian and Mandarin