You wouldn’t believe how hard it was to find an acceptably level surface in our home in order to make this picture work. It’s still not perfectly balanced, but I’m not anal enough to care.

Aller is my flavour-of-the-month font. It’s clean and is subtle in its playfulness. It’s available for free download from this danish site.

*I’ve just noticed that the word Quran is at the end of the second line. It should’ve been at the beginning of the third. Can’t edit without redoing the entire graphic. –> #1 bad designer habit:  deleting the psd file after a cursory glance at the finished artwork.*

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And so to end, as we began, Eid Mubarak from myself and the folks at someecards.com.

Sucks that we can’t agree on a date, but hey, we can’t even agree on which of the 72 will make it to the finish line.

May your day be a beautiful celebration of Faith, family and food.

To note; fennel, ginger and turmeric are good remedies for indigestion.

One for the Jo’burgers:

And a special rendering for the spokesperson of the Anti-Mehndhi Collective:

The last time I was this excited about new shoes for Eid, must’ve been when I was around six years old. Please humour this mindless indulgence:

My original concept for this was to have the words form the image of the woman wearing the scarf, a textual graphic, similar to the Islamic calligraphy where verses of the Quran are written stylistically to curve into and form shapes from nature. 

The rationale: Ramadaan tends to froth up the visual Islam; the conventional markers of the Faith such as the hijab and the beard. It is a time for questions from those you work with, study with or buy fruit from. Challenge the existing perceptions, unsettle the mindsets, uncover their minds, educate.