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Omar Kamel
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I've been finishing off some Arabic songs I've been writing and working on for a while now, for an album I'll hopefully be releasing soon called 'Mamnou3 El Intizar'.

I commissioned Jtumburus to draw/paint the cover for me based on an idea I had, and he's done absolutely wonderful work with it. We ended up with two pretty cool versions of the same concept, you can see those at :

jtumburus.deviantart.com/art/M…

and

jtumburus.deviantart.com/art/M…

I really love the work he's done on these, and am mostly leaning towards using the 2nd one as a cover, and the first one on the inside somewhere, or on a poster. Not quite sure yet :)

And - in case you're curious - you can hear some of the music at www.new.facebook.com/pages/Oma… if you use facebook or on my site at omarkamel.com :)
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Anti-War.us is seeking contributions from graphic designers towards it's anti-war effort - all graphics will be distibuted freely to activists worldwide.

Contribution instructions are available on their website. They're accepting various formats, already have some powerful graphics on their site, well worth seeing. Many of them have so far been supplied by the Benneton sponsored Fabrica arts workshop, which might be familiar to deviantART users.

If you're at all interested in saving some lives, try to check it out. It might be worth your time.
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"Spiritus Mundi is a pack of 78 "not quite Tarot cards" produced by designers and artists from all over the world who gave their time freely for this collaboration.

The project was mentioned in a previous devious news post, but there's no quick way of knowing how many deviantART members have participated. My own submission can be found here.

"Each participant was asked to take at least one word and interpret it in the context of the year from September 2001. The invitation that we sent out was made as open and inclusive as possible with the aim of getting cards from a wide range of people spanning a spectrum of viewpoints." - from the Spiritus Mundi website.

It was a pleasure working with the folks over there, and they are, to put it simply, quite cool - and they're offering discounts according to the GDP of the country you are in.
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Well, okay - so I don't update my journal much.

Who cares ;) ?
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Spiritus Mundi, an idea to present themed cards that reflect the state of the world's mind, is something all deviants might be interested in.

Like a deck of Tarot cards, Spiritus Mundi (Spirit of the World), there will be 78 Cards with various designs that will attempt to communicate a message based on a word or two.

The idea of the whole thing is to present themed cards, a collection of them, that reflect the state of the world's mind - the consciousness of the world, in light, also - of recent events.

They don't expect to make profit out of it, if they do - it'll go to apparently charitable ends, as for the artists, everybody gets a couple of decks of the final card-set, and has the pleasure of knowing this his put his mind in that deck.

I've put a draft of my card design here.

So - get on, get heard!
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