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Islamic Experience Designer

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Faith 47 & the South African Reality

March 26, 2010 By Nur Ahmad Furlong

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

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Blog Action Day 08 Tackles Poverty

August 16, 2008 By Nur Ahmad Furlong

Some of you might have heard about Blog action day last year. It’s an annual event setup by Envato (ex eden creations) to motivate bloggers to focus on a specific issue on a specific day by blogging about it in whatever way they see fit. By doing so bloggers worldwide created hype around environmental issues […]

Filed Under: Blogging, Events, Online Social Networking, Society Tagged With: blog_action_day, envato, poverty

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Support Mustadafin in feeding & clothing 10 000 + Refugees

May 27, 2008 By Nur Ahmad Furlong

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful As you are aware, the xenophobic violence has left an estimated 25 000 victims displaced, destitute and in despair. We can only but pray to the Almighty for a solution to this political and humanitarian crisis. The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Management has appointed Mustadafin […]

Filed Under: Society Tagged With: assist, charity, food_distribution, help, humanitarian_crisis, mustadafin_foundation, refugees, xenophobia

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Ad Designed with no electricity, Ogilvy tackles Power Crisis

February 29, 2008 By Nur Ahmad Furlong

I found this interesting story on biz-community.com Ogilvy Cape Town’s art director Jennifer Macfarlane and copy writer Cuan Cronwright are the winners of The Times Young Creatives Competition, held 23 – 26 February 2008 at this year’s Design Indaba Expo. A PR stunt no doubt saw creatives pitting their skills against each other in a […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Design, Events, Society, Sustainability Tagged With: cape_town, graphic_design, no_electricity, no_power, ogilvy, plasma_screens, power_crisis, pr_stunt, Typography, winning_ad

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Simple resources to combat Global Warming

February 5, 2008 By Nur Ahmad Furlong

Working on the SA Climate Crisis logo design for Andre Bothma, lead me to finding some interesting resources online. There’s a ton of stuff out there to help us focus on cutting down our carbon footprints and live a life which is less taxing on the environment. One site in particular, live-the-solution.com, has a collection […]

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Society, Sustainability Tagged With: "climate change", "Global Warming", carbon footprint, e-book, eco, environment, mind-map, resources, Sustainability

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Think you can escape the web revolution? – Shift Happens!

October 31, 2007 By Nur Ahmad Furlong

Attending the “Web 2.0 Explosion” sessions hosted by Jamaal from Jayz internet solutions gave me a fresh boost of enthusiasm about what I do and refreshed my memory about quite a few web concepts which I have packed into a few boxes at the back of my mind somewhere. Even though I have been following […]

Filed Under: Society, Technology, Web Tagged With: developments, digital, future, shift, Technology, trends, Web 2.0

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