I love love love working with Diana Hawatmeh! I miss her loads! Diana where are you ??!!! across the Globe having a blast in NY.... I've always found her work inspirational and her sense of composition and type blows me away every time. Her dedication to the Arabic language and strive to showcase our culture through design and type is unique. We both went to AUS ( American Uni of Sharjah ) but she was a year below me, it was only after we worked in AMG ( Arab Media Group ) in Dubai that our friendship blossomed. Our usual lunches at Black Canyon where me, her and Rhoda would sit discussing future projects and whining and complaining like any normal employee.. Our usual sword fights in between projects and Ola ( marketing manager ) coming in to let us know that we should stop working on what we were working on ( which is inclusive of a good weeks worth of work + lack of sleep lol ) to tell us that there is something else we need to be working on. She did claim to name her first unborn child after us ( in hopes that it would serve as the best incentive to keep us motivated and working ) , Ola sorry but I highly doubt a Lamia, Rhoda, Diana + the hundred other names would be healthy for child who would probably have to spend an hour writing his poor name down. LOL... Here I go again going on a tangent when I should be talking about miss Hawatmeh's artistic wackiness in the land of type. If anything Diana, thank you for making something that could potentially be ultra boring into something so exciting. If you have a strong appreciation for type then you will find Miss Hawatmeh's work an art form on it's own. Goes to show you devotion to what you love can eventually blossom into something so beautiful. I love type thanks to you DIDI!! you may be indecisive and your fingers fidgeting with the volume, ipod, phone, ac in the car like 50 times but i realized I do not like listning to songs all the way through.. so again I thank you for allowing me to hear only half of what is meant to be a 3 min song, and I don't mind waves of heat and cold in between either. You truly are unique * Bear Hug* missing you loads.
Diana's work
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