Islamic Awareness Week Poster

Peace be upon you,

Heres a basic layout for a poster idea I have for 'Islamic Awareness week' at Newport University. personally i'm not to convinced by the basic idea, but im going to try blending some tradition Islamic geometric art into it, hopefully i'll be able to work out how exactly to do it.

Peace,
Yahya

Need to Update

Peace be Upon You,

Okay I think I need to update this blog and get my college projects back on track. Theres a lot so its quite daunting, oh and i also have to create a personal blog so I can ramble on about non-design related items.

I'll dedicate this evening to that inshaAllah (God Willing).

Peace,
Yahya

Brum Brum...

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Pics of central Birmingham taken a couple of weeks ago;


Beautifully decorated buildings, theres a whole little culturaly rich quarter which will most probably be bulldozed soon to make way for concrete and glass blocks and a couple of bucks. It is quite sad that very few would have seen, and if they had; stopped to appreciate this amazing little area. How ironically funny that Birmingham council are running around trying to 'improve' an outsiders view of Birmingham, when this little cultural paradise lies only 5-10 mins walk from the concrete mess known as the 'Bullring'.


I love these brick structures, I'm not exactly sure how old these bridges are, a lot of the main sewer systems are built from similar architecture and go back to the Victorian Era. I'm just quite amazed that one of these bricks hasn't dropped on someones head.



Birminghams canals, we have more than venice; but alas much dirtier. A wonderful reminder of Birminghams history. If you care to spend some time walking along it, you can see how things might have working during the industrial age; where the barges would've stopped and been unloaded, where the factories would have been located.
The first image is a true example of how nature will surpas man, no matter what.


I have no idea if these lights were just for show or actually had some significance on the rail tracks above, but it felt amazing standing there all the same. (btw the actual image is portrait, but looks better landscape)

Peace,
Yahya

First Post- About Time :)

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Mother Brief: The last time I did this brief I was looking at physical and emotional loss. This time I want to move away from physical objectification and look more in depth at the essence of the 'mother' relationships.



Based on the verse from the Holy Quran [45:16] "We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: In pain did his mother bear him, and in pain did she give him birth. The carrying of the (child) to his weaning is (a period of) thirty months. At length, when he reaches the age of full strength and attains forty years, he says, "O my Lord! Grant me that I may be grateful for Thy favour which Thou has bestowed upon me, and upon both my parents, and that I may work righteousness such as Thou mayest approve; and be gracious to me in my issue. Truly have I turned to Thee and truly do I bow (to Thee) in Islam." (Yusuf Ali Translation)

The part of Significance here is 'In pain did his mother bear him', represented above by the arabic shaped around the form of an unborn child.

Motherhood is not something to be overlooked or undermined; the pain, suffering, effort and grief a mother must face just of carrying the unborn child is of extreme importance, one which we find little time to appreciate. Despite what Islam may be stereotyped as, women are given a high status, especially mothers. Their honourable status' being one most rightly gained due to the hardship they must endure.

Peace,
Yahya