My passion for artsy stuff and logo design in particular!

My passion for artsy stuff and logo design in particular!

The other day I checked the website http://www.libyaninvestment.com/ and found two adds in the announcements section for logo design competitions. Ever since the Libyan revolution a lot of the governmental institutions both old and newly established ones started getting what I'd like to call the new look treatments which included in most cases a new logo! I participated in the one they had for the ministry of education but that was a while ago and until now no news of the new logo or the winner of the competition. Lets hope the Civil Aviation Authority Libya and the National Council of Civil Liberties and Human Rights Libya will do a better job!

I have to say that I hate the fact that most logos here are overly worked and have nothing memorable about them as a result. I have to admit I love simple, clean and memorable logos. They should be memorable and having a whole lot of stuff going on in whats supposed to be a logo doesn't help with that. I also love the incorporation of arabic calligraphy or text into a modern day logo. Of course with my beginner level Adobe Illustrator skills I still haven't dared try my hand at that. I already have two places in mind though that can make use of my humble logo making skills. See what I can come up with for them.

Anyways, this whole logo design competition business got me online searching for the best and the worst of logos. I especially like the human rights logo below:

The other logo I found in the best logos of 2010 (a blog site that had a whole bunch of the best of logos). I don't know for some reason the round shape full of letters and alphabets has an Islamic design feel to it and since this is a logo for some kind of research I love the connotation made.

Maybe next time I'll try posting some the logos I've designed myself. Some of which had some really good potential.

Teaching English in Libya!!!

I've always loved teaching and have always been equally passionate about it. I am a social person and enjoy the kind of interaction especially involved in a teaching/classroom setting. And while I am a chemistry major by schooling with a bachelors of science what I enjoyed most in my four years and a half  of studying  were the teaching assistant hours spent in the General Chemistry course labs! I mean no, not the actual experiments nor the actual research done but the mere teaching experience itself. I was lucky enough to land the job of being a chemistry teaching assistant for first year students at my college for two years while studying to earn my degree. 

Upon graduating I worked as a private English tutor along with my part time job as a business consultant. Funny how both of my jobs at that time had nothing to do with my actual education lol. But I quickly found out it wasn't those specific things you learn that helped  you but the skills you achieved over that long period of time while studying. The other funny thing is what started with tutoring our neighbor's little son and daughter in our house living room turned to a class size number of students wanting to be tutored!  I was tutoring 17 students in less than two months of starting.  There was so much demand I was drowning. I wanted to quit my job as consultant and focus on tutoring which I was enjoying so much but my boss then made me an offer instead. I was to give them (the company I was working for as a consultant) a certain percentage of commission and they would provide me with a place for tutoring ( a small school basically) and transportation for myself and my students. Of course I couldn't accept the offer as I was soon to come to Libya and start a new life here.

Now after being married and living here in Libya for over two years and my little boy is slowly growing up (I can't believe he's gonna be two in just five months mashallah!) I am starting to think about my past endeavors. I am seriously thinking of teaching English as a foreign language here in Libya. I regret the fact that I didn't take a CELTA course while back in the gulf. An online search didn't yield any such courses being offered here in Libya. I wonder where I can get a TESOL or CELTA or TEFL  certificate for that matter here? And would I have to get out of the country in order to get one? Please dear viewers do enlighten me if you have any information with regards to teaching English (EFL) here in Libya.

Our deen...

I think this photo is worth a thousand words...literally that is! Absolutely love it!