Absar Ahmed ابصار احمد

A highly skilled and multi-talented designer

[JSTOR @JSTOR]

Today marks the start of the Islamic month of #Ramadan, the 9th month of the Islamic calendar and observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community. Ramadan Mubarak to those celebrating!

Image credit: @TrinityCollege https://t.co/WNJ2uLrgCG

[Ellen Lupton @ellenLupton]

Black Bauhaus by Tracy Jones. Beautiful essay about the Black rhythms of design history @MicrosoftDesign https://t.co/0iEJLCWRnT

[Ayisha Siddiqa @Ayishas12]

I still don’t think people understand what it means for 33 million people to be displaced. That’s 6 times more people than those internally displaced in Ukraine from war, that’s roughly 90% of the population of Canada.
That’s how many people are internally homeless right now

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

In 1983, Steve Jobs typed this reply to a letter asking for his autograph:

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Binged everything on your watchlist? Looking for something new this Friday? We have >3k silent films available for your viewing pleasure, like Buster Keaton in "Cops" from 1922, featuring some of Keaton's best physical gags: https://t.co/E8af2khKo5 #FridayNightVideos

[Design Reviewed | Graphic Design History @DesignReviewed]

Geometric Faces design by Ikko Tanaka.

[Absar Ahmed ابصار احمد @mrAbsarAhmed]

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. #NelsonMandela https://t.co/hRyd1HxvMt

[Absar Ahmed ابصار احمد @mrAbsarAhmed]

Thanks @MattPotter for pointing to this thread 👌

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

When we demonise screens, we risk demonising the things our children love. We denigrate their choices. We give them the message that the things they value aren’t worth the time, that they can’t be trusted to make decisions. 8/

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

It’s misleading to say British people say “alright?” as a greeting because it’s actually even less than that, it’s more of a noise based around the word “alright”. It’s more of an ”ite?” and often even less than that. And the appropriate response is to give a similar grunt back.

[Kristen Howerton @kristenhowerton]

An anxiety disorder looks like going through airport security and seeing that there is a drug-sniffing dog and thinking to yourself "DO I have cocaine in my bag??" even though you've never actually seen cocaine in real life.

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

Life is best when you act like the person you want to become.

[Absar Ahmed ابصار احمد @mrAbsarAhmed]

آپ کی جانب سے آئے تو اُٹھا کر رکھ لئے
پتھروں سے گھر سجانے کا کبھی سوچا نہ تھا

~ فاخرہ بتول

[Rekhta @Rekhta]

aap ki jaanib se aaye to utha kar rakh liye
pattharon se ghar sajaane ka kabhi socha na tha
~Fakhira Batool

[Absar Ahmed ابصار احمد @mrAbsarAhmed]

One of the four books without which an information designer’s education is incomplete.

Spoiler fact: All four books are by @EdwardTufte

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Bar chart by Lisa Frank, in a book of dread prophecy, traced by the masts of tall ships in a Turner painting, outlined by tornadoes.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Bar charts in the style of Magritte, a burning post-apocalyptic city, a Byzantine mosaic, an 80s punk album cover.

[Absar Ahmed ابصار احمد @mrAbsarAhmed]

‘Google is providing the Israeli government with the full suite of machine-learning and AI tools available through Google Cloud Platform.’

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Google workers who reviewed the documents said they were concerned by their employer’s sale of these technologies to Israel, fearing both their inaccuracy and how they might be used for surveillance or other militarized purposes. https://t.co/R1Sy6r4SDb

[Design Reviewed | Graphic Design History @DesignReviewed]

The work of Gérard Miedinger scanned from Graphis 189, 1977 https://t.co/BUz8uKLJBW #GérardMiedinger #Graphis #graphicdesignhistory

[Mark Twain @TheMarkTwain]

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

[Grafik. @grafikmag]

Grafik. Features Fire Without Smoke

We love a good fresh of brand identity, especially when it's perfectly executed like this one by @open_under
Take a closer look here:
https://t.co/CniPFuBDA8