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Islamic Experience Designer

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Creative Thinking

Modular Smart Phone by Phonebloks – So cool I had to share

October 10, 2013 By Nur Ahmad Furlong Leave a Comment

I haven’t posted anything to any of my sites for absolutely ages but the following project is just so inspiring and “necessary” that I thought it’s a definite must share. I know more than anyone else the problem we have with our “smart device” becoming unusable because one small little part broke. In many cases […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Design, Sustainability, Technology Tagged With: modular, phoneblocks, smart phone, wikidwell

WDC2014 taking Cape Town Design onto the World Stage

June 30, 2011 By Nur Ahmad Furlong Leave a Comment

You may not have heard but there’s a City down South, at the very tip of Africa that’s been buzzing with the sound of creative innovation for some time. It’s a really beautiful place like none other, almost laid back and extremely friendly and hospitable. It recently hosted thousands of International visitors as part of […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Design, Events Tagged With: "cape town", creative cape town, Design, wdc2014, world design capital 2014

HTML 5 and digital generative art ALA Joshua Davis

December 13, 2010 By Nur Ahmad Furlong 1 Comment

Heard the name Joshua Davis? If you’ve been into any kind of digital creative for some time you might have encountered the legendary digital artist who’s inspired some of the biggest brands out there to make use of his computer generated abstract art in their marketing efforts. Some of these Brands include – BMW, Motorola, […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking Tagged With: canvas, HTML 5, joshua davis, okapi.js, Online Tools

Faith 47 & the South African Reality

March 26, 2010 By Nur Ahmad Furlong Leave a Comment

Many of us who have spent the last few years in Cape Town may have come into contact with the street art of Faith 47. I’ve always wondered about the purpose behind these activists and their semi-subliminal messages which are scattered about on the neglected walls of our society. Faith 47 being one specific artist […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Society Tagged With: activism, faith-47, street-art

Getting the most out of What We Do

June 6, 2009 By Nur Ahmad Furlong 1 Comment

Last night I had a highly insightful chat on gtalk with @naeem who runs a number of successful online businesses and interest sites out of Johannesburg, South Africa. Naeem is someone I admire for being able to see a business opportunity around almost every corner, you can tell he’s been doing what he does for […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Entrepreneurial, Productivity, Strategy Tagged With: business-model, Life Lessons

Custom Word Cloud images, using Wordle

May 13, 2009 By Nur Ahmad Furlong Leave a Comment

I’m very much a fan of tag-clouds and have noticed a trend in typographic design to make more interesting use of them in experimental typographic designs. Wordle.net is a free online tool you can use to generate a custom coloured Word Cloud using either word’s of your choice, your site’s RSS feed to pull your […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Typography Tagged With: Online Tools, tag-cloud, Typography, word-cloud, wordle

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