Profile

-Interviewer: Kul al Aussra Magazine
-Date: 27 March 2002		Download the magazine

	( I refuse to transfer art to a business ) There is a huge ambition in the horizon. It was plunged in the electronics and imagination crowd, when we accidentally met him in the Internet sites and by the definition in between his sites’ lines, www.makki-style.com. He is one of the Arab guys who shined in mastering graphic art, after they mixed it with their feelings. Only Makki could mix his art with his soul and his feelings that flowed from the Arabian Island. Let us know more about his personality,

What is your scholastic major?
	Currently I study Electronic Commerce.

How did you start graphic designing?
	I accidentally started the graphic designing world when I was in my friend's store for selling computer programs and there was some design caught my attention, a simple picture but it was really nice, so I asked my friend about the name of the program he used to create that picture, he replied: Adobe Photoshop program. So I pushed myself to learn how to use that program by myself and my personal effort, and when I face something difficult with it I would go to my friend who first introduced me to that program which I basically continued my way on.

What is Adobe Photoshop Program?
	It is a several arts were entered into the computer system to ease the designing work on the user. In fact Photoshop program categorized as a coloring program, so it considered as a coloring program, in the language of the people whom are specialized in Photoshop. So it is a program that can connect the user with more than area or kind of art. It is the portraitist’s program who wants to color, and it is the designer’s program when they want to make use of 2D designs to produce a design that of two or more pictures with adding some changed that invented from the power of his imagination, so that is why Photoshop it is a program concern all the artists who have connection with colors.

The Internet is your second world, then what your activities on the Internet world?
	Currently I participate in Hajr cultural network, www.hajr.org and my job there is the supervision on the Art forum, I show my designs only in that splendid forum in its members and participants who participate in different kinds of creativeness’, it contains artists from different countries and all of them practicing their hobbies on the hajr network whether they were (calligraphers, painters, designers, photographers, professors in designing and critique).

How did you work up between your designs and the current Arab world issues?
	The work up seems clear in the show we made in the Hajr cultural network under the names (Palestine, Jerusalem, Intefada) and that step was as a sign in uniting with the Palestinian people. We focused our art designs and creativity for supporting Intefada, and I invited different designers to participate in that exhibition which met a big success through the amount of visits it got, so the participators made us happy with there excellent and meaningful contributions. And I personally participated with different designs in that exhibition, and the main design was for the martyr child, Eman Hejo, it included her picture attached with a lot of painful and sad feelings. And the sponsors of Eman Hejo site have included the participated designs in the exhibition to their site under the name “Palestine exhibition”. And you can take a look at the exhibition through the main link: www.emanhejo.net The last step I took was designing honor certificates for the participants in that exhibition to honor them for their efforts and brilliance.

The art’s soul in you when your little, so can you talk to us about that?
	I was in love with drawing specially oil paintings, and one of my high school teacher has recognized this talent and advice me to improve it, so I joined some institution but I was not able to continue because I am a kind of impatient person and I can’t wait on doing painting, so I preferred that my special teacher would teach me and I personally asked him that, so he didn’t refuse my request. I learned oil paintings under his supervision; I learned that in a small period of time, I have good experience in the drawing world and colors. Also I liked the Arabic calligrapher, and I had some good attempts in that area too. In the beginning and in most of my graphic works I was suffering from creating colors, it was difficult for mixing colors in a way that it gives a better picture, also I faced difficulties in organizing the ideas, and how to apply it on required portrait, but my works now much better than before, and most of what recognizes me now between the graphic designer is my way of mixing up colors, which the magic of the colors in my work helps in getting the picture well to the viewers all Thanks to God.. So all my colors and work comes from artistic feeling, I try to deep it day after the other, because the designer’s feelings reflects on his work, and it has effects in choosing the colors FACTIOUS IMAGE

From where do you get your ideas?
	Each designer has his own source to create his ideas and for me I mostly get my ideas from nature, and life meditation, when I am in a special psychological situation I get effected by everything I see, weather it is a design or choosing colors, so dealing with designs is a rhyme between the soul and the art of colors which they build the idea of the design, so the design without an idea, is just colors and dead shapes that miss the spirit of creativity, the power of the design is based on how to convey your message in that design, in the best ways possible. So the idea has its duration in the designer’s imagination, and from here it seems the similarities between the poet and the designer is pretty clear from searching for the factious image that build the base for building a design, and itself builds the bases for making a poem What’s the secret the connectivity between your work and your photographic hobbies? My photographic hobbies came recently, and my use to them in some of graphic work, is founded in my special preferable, and design independency so I don’t like taking pictures (photographic) among markets or internet and use it in my graphic works, because in this situation I will not be the picture owner and not me who took the picture, so it is better to take a picture by my self, and adding it to my work, in which knows by the real imagination

Away from Photoshop program, have you worked on other programs?
	There are many programs that are similar to Photoshop, as Vector system, it is a program to cover the odds and use different tools from Photoshop as coloring programs, brushes, erasers, etc. one of the well known designers said the coloring programs is for (lazy users) those who don’t want to put a lot of efforts in finding alive or strange imaginative shapes although the real designer is the one who can find a way to himself in the vector program so the art equation is: Factious + creativity + work experience= Great works

Criticism can put you down sometimes, so how would you feel when you face it?
	I am one of those who can take the critique with an open heart, and from the beginning I started my WAY by accepting the opinions of all people and even those who are younger than me, self confidence and the work for improvement helps on accepting the useful critique as a way to improve the individual’s ability, in fact I admit that the known rule (critique the base structuring) it is what improved me.

Did you get any special offers from specialized organizations?
	Yes, but I didn’t accept for any work from my works to take the business direction because I don’t like to get my hobby into the world of business and currently I work on designing a special site that include all of my design work since the beginning till now and future from the graphic design, photography, and there will be a special forum in the fields of the graphics and photography in God’s willing.