Hamzah Abdel'al

We should do a book which shows th problem . so what i thought of that our problems have two sides . the first one is the problem with the space it self and the second one is how people react with these problem .. so i went so souq and pictured the first side of problem ... i took alot of photos . in this class i discovered that i should focus on the area i want to talk about because i just went too far by taking a lot of photos to general souq. now after taking photos i am thing of showing these problems in a different ways inside the book .. the way of showing will depend on the problem it self . after discussing this with my group i found my first scenario which is about people dont like take photos inside souq .
i think that i understand what we should do well but the problem is with taking more photos which is i am going to do ..

Hamzah Abdel'al

Souq Waqef


Our project was to choose a public space and to study this space and to try to apply theories like semiotics on some graphic peaces for this space ... my space was Souq waqef which i discovered that is a very boring space to talk about ... but though in the future i wont choose my subject so i just took the challenge and started .... our first project was to do a poster for this place ... informative poster .. we started to take photos for our places ... i took photos for every where inside the souq ... pornphapa said that my pictures is good because i included micro and macro photos ... the next phase was to take the most important photos which reflects the souq it self .. which mean arrange the photos by highracke .... after i did that i started to think about the poster it self ... i needed more photos to make the poster gives the feeling of souq specially cultural places inside it .... our first presentation was so bad because i didnt even think .... i went to souq 4 times taking photos and observe how people react .... i took a very good photos at the end .... the composition in my new poster was so bad so i will critique it while i am going to talk about it ...



i used one of the patterns to put my pictures .. this pattern is a very old arabic pattern .... and the type on the right which says souq waqif in arabic .... the thing is this is not even a poster because the pattern which contains the pictures is lost inside the space and it feels like its just one element .... the pictures arrangement inside the pattern is not gd because i dont see a high contrast in the highracky ... the type is normal ... and the position is not really gd ... it doesn't communicate well to my audience and i cant really feel the souq even that i can understand that it an old thing ... i think it can much much better if i changed the compostion and make the
atmosphere of souq appear ....

Hamzah Abdel'al