TL;DR : my logo is my first name written in Arabic in square kufic calligraphy style.

When I began to make my website, I thought of designing a logo, something unique and refined that would fit easily in any graphical charter and look mysterious to the visitor.
I thought first of making my signature as my logo because when I used to sign infront of people I oftenly got positive feedback (especially from women surprisingly) on how my signature looks unique and smooth with its curves and how I write it down from right to left. Yes, you get it : my signature is my first name in Arabic letters, not in Latin, which make it exotic and intriguing at the same time for a Western audiance.

But then I decided to modify it a little bit to make it different from my real signature. I removed the loop of the first letter Ayin. I added one point in the loop which corresponds to the point of letters Ba and Jim at the same time. The tail of the first letter Dal makes actually the stroke of letter Ya.

Eventhough the logo as above may be nice by having that handwritten Arabic calligraphy vibes, but I felt that because of how it looks, it seems that it could be difficult to incorporate it into a website with a corresponding Latin font charter.

So, I decided to drop the idea of making my signature as a logo for my website and decided to explore other ways. In order to make the logo more affordable to integrate it into a website, I decided to make it thicker and more angular.

I did this :

I tried making something looking like a shield or an emblem and at the same time my name on it. Because of how the letters are not that recognisable, I droped it...

But I didn't drop the idea of making something bold and angular. How about writing my name completely with a thick typography but maybe obliquely ?

I designed first my name written in an oblique and thick way (bottom right corner of the image above). From this, I did the other experiments. The typography looks cool and the first attempt is actually the coolest but I gave up keeping this idea as a logo because I found it to be too simple for its purpose. There is nothing special in it into making it a whole logo.

Finally, with some research and perseverance, I designed the definitive logo. Indeed, this is the one you encountered first when you entered my website. The logo is thick, squarish and does look like a real square kufic calligraphy.

I went with old school arabic letters which is without points, as you may notice, in order to make the logo compact.

You may now wonder how to read my name in this logo. There is two part in my name Abd, below, and Al-Majid above as follow :

Abd part is pretty straight forward to read :

• Blue is Ain
• Red is Ba
• Green is Dal

Al-Majid in the other hand is a bit trickier. It involves the mirroring of letters Ya (unchanged though) and Dal (which makes it looks similar to Ain) because the writing of these letters went from left to right after letter Jim.

• Blue is Alif
• Red is Lam
• Green is Mim
• Yellow is Jim
• Brown is Ya
• Grey is Dal

If you are a westerner, there's a chance that you can't read my logo and think it is a maze... I hope now that the explanation makes it clear for you!

As a designer, I enjoy making funny designs to share them online and be printed on products such as T-Shirts, bags and so on.
You can order some of my products through my shops on Society6 and Spreadshirt. These products have an excellent rock solid quality !

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You already saw portfolios, right ? How about a gamified portfolio ? I did a funny one in pixel art in 2018 with LibGDX.
Check it here.

The game is in french and playable only on desktop. Since the game was done in 2018, it needs some updates (diplomas, judo's belt, games done, etc ;)
Enjoy!

In 2018, I designed and conceived an originally fun mobile game called ARCADUO.

In fact it is not just one game, it is a groupe of multiple games playable and only playable with a partner on the same device. ARCADUO app emphasise on the social aspect of gaming which is playing with your parents, your siblings, or your friends, with someone you know or don't know, face to face ; in other term, having a direct interaction with your mate which is actually funny and unusual at the same time on a small piece of device such as a tablet or, even smaller, a mobile phone.

You may now wonder why the logo is like such above and what is the meaning of a heart and a thunder in a game like this. Right ?
In fact, this is the essance of Arcaduo, each game has two modes : Solidarity mode and Rivalry one. In Solidarity mode, the two players team up together to get the bestt score they can ; while in Rivalry mode one, players confront each other in a versus mode.

I aimed this game to be played by casual gamers, those who don't try hard games like kids and grandmas. This is why, as you noticed in the video above, I preferred to bring a simplistic flat design with simple geometrical shapes with cheerful colors.

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During the day of projects presentation in my University (ESIEE's JDP), I noticed that Arcaduo on my stand got mainly the attention of girls who enjoyed a lot the concept, which I didn't expect. The explanation to this is maybe because of its social aspect of the game : playing together on the same screen is nicer than playing alone on the screen online like boys nowadays. The second explanation to this could be thanks to the design choice and the cheerful colors.

I even made a pitch in front of juries in my University to promote my game. Here is the video of my speech (in French!) below :

Since 2020, I participated in many game jams. It was the right time to prove what I can make, with my teammate (who is my brother), in tight deadlines.

C0deTracker is my sound, music sequencer (or tracker) written in C++ allowing you, the user, to design and compose sound/music in your C++ program. An audio API is needed though to record sound or play that latter in real time.

I were into music tracking since long time with Famitracker, then Deflemask and enjoyed a lot, and still enjoy, old school music tracking hardware in general.

But the story of C0deTracker began recently in 2020 when I was doing a test from N.E.R.D (Nintendo European Research and Development) on ShaderToy, which is a website allowing people to write and render shaders (fragment or pixel shader to be more specific) online. The aim of the exercice they gave me to do was to render a black hole with ray tracing (which I partially succeeded, but got rejected due to the fact that I didn't make a true physical simulation of the phenomenon). I noticed some shaders, made by other people on the platform that you can view, can also render audio. This gave me the motivation to make my generated real time music. With the few knowledge I have in signal processing and FM/AM (Frequency Modulation/Amplitude Modulation) I could create PSG (Pulse Sound Generator) based instruments and also FM. In short, the shader that I have done for Nintendo was somehow the origin of C0deTracker.
You can play with my shader here.
BEWARE : ShaderToy may appear to be too heavy for your computer, it takes a lot of time to compile, don't worrry.

For now, COdeTracker is cool to make NES like music, and way more.
C0deTracker is great to integrate in a video game project, for example, where all of your audios are hard coded in your game and generated at real time. I used C0deTracker for my last two game jams.