Cover design • Illustration • Concept
Cover story: Why Gulf governments must put aside their difference to turn the dream of a pan-GCC railway into reality.
(To do this issue was a fun process full of sand and a train toy)
(To do this issue was a fun process full of sand and a train toy)
Cover design • Illustration • Layout design • Concept
Cover story: Global impact of Gulf-based sovereign wealth funds in the wake of the recession.
Layout design • Concept
Cover story: The potential repercussions of Saudi Arabia’s decision to open its capital markets to foreign investment.
(The idea was to represent an old stock market using ticker tape)
(The idea was to represent an old stock market using ticker tape)
Cover design • Layout design
Annual Year Ahead
Annual Year Ahead
Concept
Cover story: Investigation of the stand-off between OPEC and US shale oil producers, which is driving oil prices to new lows and threatening global economic stability.
Who is the good, the bad and the ugly in the oil economy?
Who is the good, the bad and the ugly in the oil economy?
Cover design
Cover story: Why the market for solar power in the region will remain resilient despite the threat from falling oil prices.
(Another sticky fun cover we develop with treacle representing the oil and kitchen sponges trying to clean all this mess)
Cover design • Illustration • Layout design
Cover story: We look at the growing food truck scene in the UAE as the country’s food festival season gets underway.
(Mental note: never design/illustrate food with the empty stomach)
(Mental note: never design/illustrate food with the empty stomach)
Concept
Cover story: In the wake of the historic nuclear deal between Iran and the world’s major powers, this latest issue assesses some of the implications and what it means for the future of the Middle East.
Cover design
Cover story: As oil prices hit new lows for the year, we look at the Gulf
economies’ dependence on its biggest export and what must be done to ease this.
economies’ dependence on its biggest export and what must be done to ease this.
Cover design • Illustration • Concept
Cover story: We look at the battle for tech startups in the Middle East to secure funding from local investors.
Cover design • Concept
Cover story: We look at the future of employment in the Gulf, with automation
and demographic pressures set to deliver seismic change to the region’s workplaces.
and demographic pressures set to deliver seismic change to the region’s workplaces.
(This cover was made while I was listening Kraftwerk)
Cover design • Concept
Cover story: The New Year’s Eve fire at The Address Downtown Dubai
should ring alarm bells for real estate investors.
should ring alarm bells for real estate investors.
Typographical arrangement
Cover design • Illustration • Concept
Cover story: How refugees who have fled to Europe from the Middle East
are being helped towards a university education by a German startup.
So many people, so few opportunities.
Cover story: How refugees who have fled to Europe from the Middle East
are being helped towards a university education by a German startup.
So many people, so few opportunities.
Concept
Cover story: How one of the finest collections of 20th-century art is locked up
in a Tehran museum–and the plans to show it to the rest of the world.
Cover story: How one of the finest collections of 20th-century art is locked up
in a Tehran museum–and the plans to show it to the rest of the world.
