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Audi Foundation-Entrance 01
See More Of Audi FoundationSee More Of Audi FoundationUnder the banner of heritage2010The Audi Foundation main entrance is an unmistakable expression of history and preservation.Photo: May Arida -
Audi Foundation-Entrance 02
See More Of Audi FoundationSee More Of Audi FoundationGrand entrance2010Entering the Audi Foundation building allows for multiple access: to the foundation on the first floor and the museum and outlets on the ground floor.Photo: May Arida -
Audi Foundation-Haret Audi
See More Of Audi FoundationSee More Of Audi FoundationNestled in history2001The Audi Foundation connects to the old town of Saida, a quarter called Haret Audi. -
Audi Foundation-Entrance 03
See More Of Audi FoundationSee More Of Audi FoundationOpen doors2001Audi Foundation is open to the public, and hosts the soap shop and the café/kitchen with signage on their glass windows.Photography: Photo Raffi -
Awan-Main sign Achrafieh
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Café Younes-Hamra and Byblos wood signs
See More Of Café YounesSee More Of Café YounesMultiple configurations2012A combination of signage formats address the needs of each outlet for maximum visibility. -
Café Younes-Main sign Abdel Aziz
See More Of Café YounesSee More Of Café YounesWelcome to the neighborhood2011Everything about the Younes outlet in Hamra Abdel Aziz Street, from the signs and materials scheme to the lighting and openness onto the sidewalk, screams “step inside”. -
Cyberia-Resellers
See More Of CyberiaSee More Of CyberiaCoffee, cigarettes, internet…1999 – 2011The branding of re-seller outlets allowed for a long-term nationwide presence at a lower cost than a one-week TV commercial. Coffee and cigarettes were pretty much the only products with small shop lightboxes at the time, and after Cyberia, every other internet provider brand followed. -
Elections on Time-Billboard
See More Of Elections On TimeSee More Of Elections On TimeDark times2013The billboard alarms the public to the fact that “The parliamentary elections have not been postponed since the civil war”. To make things more alarming, a strong association is made between the significantly larger "postponing elections" and "civil war": the first thing one reads on the billboard. -
MTG-Johnnny Farah-Sign
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MTG-KCS-Sign 02
See More Of Karen ChekerdjianSee More Of Karen Chekerdjian(Mis)placing the signs2010The Store’s signs mark the space on the inside walls and concrete floors rather than the conventional exterior retail signage. -
Le comptoir-Van
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Le comptoir-Main sign
See More Of Le ComptoirSee More Of Le ComptoirShop front-and-back2000The repetition of a mirrored logo on the original main sign further emphasizes the reading of the invisible bottle, this time seen from the back. -
Mitsulift-Vehicle
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Over the Counter-Main sign
See More Of Over the CounterSee More Of Over the CounterShared territory2007With the introduction of Over the Counter to Le Comptoir, a neon sign with both names replaced the previous one. -
Palestine c/o Venice-Poster
See More Of Palestine c/o VeniceSee More Of Palestine c/o VeniceBenvenuto2009In Venice, the event poster could be seen in the entrance of the exhibition venue as well as the streets of the city. -
Quasar Tower-Fence day
See More Of Quasar TowerSee More Of Quasar TowerA fence of a different kind2014Instead of a flat printed surface with a lifeline usually shorter than the construction time, Quasar Tower’s construction site fence is a sheet of steel grating which provides an interesting visibility play, acts as a mounting board for images of the building and carries the industrial identity scheme towards a tactile materiality. -
Quasar Tower-Fence night
See More Of Quasar TowerSee More Of Quasar TowerShadow and light2014At night, the calculated lighting of Quasar Tower’s fence delineates the site boundary and highlights the building images. The material of the fence blends into the urban environment and changes in its level of transparency as it reacts to variations in viewing angle and proximity. -
Santiago-Store and sign
See More Of SantiagoSee More Of SantiagoStreet-store exchange2011A simple sign identifies the boutique on the outside, but the main attraction is a tri-face prism billboard on the inside – part of the store design scheme by apractice studio – which takes on a set of alternating visuals and acts as a backdrop to the window display. For the store opening, the theme of the naked mannequins is maintained.Top left photo: apractice studio. Lower left photo: Marco Piranelli -
Shawarmer-Outdoor sign night
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MTG-Sursock museum-main sign
See More Of Sursock MuseumSee More Of Sursock MuseumWelcome back10-2015Putting up Sursock’s new institutional signature on the main sign – which blends itself into the exterior material scheme – was the primary announcement for the reopening of the Museum. -
The Soap Museum-Entrances
See More Of The Soap MuseumSee More Of The Soap MuseumDouble entrance2001The Soap Museum can be accessed from its traditional entrance on the streets of the old town and also from the more recent premises of the Audi Foundation.Photography: Photo Raffi -
MTG-Wardé-Billboard chance campaign
See More Of WardéSee More Of WardéChance and choice2008Through a playful approach that creatively uses the way billboards are printed in pieces of 8, this award-winning campaign uses a network of 800 billboards with 800 distinct visuals within a reasonable production budget. 16 different fabrics (equivalent to 2 billboards) were reproduced and the assembly of each billboard was left to Pikasso’s installation team who had to choose 8 pieces as long as the Wardé logo and the sale message appeared on every billboard. The result is a rich multivisual campaign with more than 149 million combinations (149,022,720 to be exact) that was only revealed once posted! Even with 800 billboards to fill, the chance of a combination repeating itself was close to zero. -
Women and Municipalities-Portrait interventions
See More Of Women and MunicipalitiesSee More Of Women and MunicipalitiesMore than just doodles2010Whether with pen or flame, the temptation to fill an empty face is almost universal. In this case, some of the masculine features added onto clearly female silhouettes can be quite telling. -
Women and Municipalities-Portraits in context
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Women and Municipalities-Revealer billboard
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Women and Municipalities-Revealer poster
See More Of Women and MunicipalitiesSee More Of Women and MunicipalitiesFacing the facts2010The message of the revealer poster begins by laying down the numbers: less than 4% participation by women in politics, and ends with “you have what it takes (you are missing nothing) to partake in decision-making”.
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