Previous work
Freestyle art published in Skin
This piece was published in Bak magazine “The Dream Issue” page 175 - www.bakmagazine.com
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Advertising design concepts for my portfolio
Slap your favourite graphics on your favourite shoes and keep on walking... If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me at noor@skin-online.com.
by: Noor Issa
• Plain white shoes • Pencil, sharpener and an eraser • Permanent black marker • Scissors and straight blade • Ribbon • Fun bits and pieces, ie: badges, metal washers, whatever tickles your pickle. • A small bottle of spray paint in your favourite colour.
Art Tutorials Published in Skin Magazine
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Dyeing for Peace Psychedelic hattas for love
This tutorial was inspired by seeing both Palestinians and Israelis wearing coloured hattas during my stay in Palestine. This prompted the idea of the Peace Bearing Hatta. Go ahead – make it to wear it, or give it away as a cool present. Spread the love! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me at noor@skin-online.com.
by: Noor Issa
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2 Collect it. The things you need are: • 100% cotton clean hatta – synthetics don’t absorb dye • Dylon Cold Dye in your favourite colours • Duct tape • Plastic bags (optional) • Scissors and a blade • A stick for mixing • Salt and sodium carbonate • Measuring cup and a plastic cup • Big bucket • A tablespoon • Water (cold & warm) • Plastic gloves (optional)
Fold it. Fold the hatta diagonally in half and bring all three corners together. Hold the opposite end and scrunch the entire length of the hatta.
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Tie it. Wrap the hatta with duct tape wherever you don’t want the dye to go. You can also wrap it with plastic bags first, then again with the duct tape.
Wet it. Dampen the hatta, squeezing out all the excess water. And while you’re at the sink, fill the big bucket with enough cold water to cover your hatta.
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Mix it. Pierce a packet of dye with scissors, dump it in a cup with one pint of warm water and stir with a stick until it completely disolves. Wear plastic gloves if you want.
Add it. Mix the dye into the big bucket of cold water. Add three tablespoons of salt and one tablespoon of sodium carbonate – they help make the dye adhere to the fabric. Stir well.
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Dip it. Dip the hatta into the bucket of colour. Agitate for the first ten minutes, frequently lifting it out of dye to – wow, check out the colour! Let it soak for an hour.
Remove it. Rinse in cold water until the water runs clear. Repeate steps 5-7 with different colours, dipping different areas of of the hatta each time you add a colour. Rinse it. Unwrap it. Dry it. Wrap it. Wear it.
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Done by Noor Issa
Photographer Abeer Zoumot
Model Zein Salti
Palette: * Foundation * White powder foundation * Eyeliner - Navy blue - Light blue * Fluorescent liquid eyeliner * Eyeshadow: - Dark green - Light green - Purple - Yellow * Yellow sparkle gel * White lipstick
Skin designer takes you under the sea for the coolest Halloween costume ever. Use your favourite colours and fix your hair to match. Leave everyone gasping for oxygen! Cover your face with a foundation of your skin tone until it’s an even shade of colour. Go over the foundation with white powder making sure to cover every inch.
Use a white lipstick on your mouth and eyebrows. Pucker-up, then make an outline of your face with a blue pencil; make sure to move into the hollow of your cheeks.
Fill in the area between the hairline and halfway to the blue outline with a dark green shade. Leave room for the lighter green shade to fill in the second half.
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From the end of your brow line down to the middle of your nose, fill with a metallic purple to define the eyes. Use yellow eyeshadow to define the fish cheeks.
Add yellow sparkle gel to the green area to create a scaly fish effect. Draw a thick blue line under the eyes to make them (figuratively) pop out of your head.
And to my favourite part: use a fluorescent blue to fill the middle of the lips. Use the same colour to add a curvaceous line under the eyes to connect the whole look.
To perfect the look, wear blue or green contacts (if your eyes aren’t already aquatic) and style your hair to the shape of your favourite water dweller – let it have a tail and some fins. Swim into your Halloween party puckered-up for maximum effect! Hopefully your fish memory will help you forget where you learned this by the time you scrub off the make-up...
If anyone tries it for Halloween please take pictures and e-mail them to noor@skin-online.com. They maybe used in our next November issue. Try it out and add some splash to the party filled with the usual old characters! 115
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Current work freehand illustrations
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optimist Photographer Shereen Al Mulla Styling Sivine Samadi Illustrator Noor Issa
All frames The Counter – Cherine Magrabi
Our thanks go to Lula, issue no. 2 for the inspiration for this shoot.
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Noor Issa - DOB 26 June 1983 - noorissa@gmail.com - + 962 79 9948922 - P.O.Box 2399 Amman 11181 Jordan
Objective Extend my design skills in a medium that I have a deep passion for, so that I can contribute highly developed designs and creative ideas to raise the standards of visual communication. Profile • Creative and innovative Art Director with a great sense of design to develop, create and implement a wide variety of creative concepts and layouts. Exceptionally talented in layout design. Proven ability to understand strategy and produce dynamic creative concepts which adhere and enhance that strategy. • Outstanding skills in digital photography, color theory, drawing and painting, 3D visual art, illustration, computer techniques and retouching images. • Capable of adapting to different mediums, opinions and options. • Excellent interpersonal skills; able to negotiate, analyze, and solve problems even in stressful situations. • Dedicated, hard working, patient, organized and a perfectionist with a very strong attention to detail. • Great team player with a positive attitude towards life. Qualifications • 7 years of general art courses. •2 years experience in Near East Media (Publishing company of Skin, Nox and Torque magazines). Currently Skin magazine’s Art Director - www.skin-online.com. •A dvanced Mac skills in Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Some in Flash MX, Dimensions, Powerpoint, HTML, Microsoft Word and Excel. • Fluent in both Arabic and English. Education 2002 ~ 2004
The International Academy of Design - Toronto, Ontario Diploma in Advertising Design
1999 ~ 2001
Amman Baccalaureate School - Amman, Jordan International Baccalaureate Diploma
1996 ~ 1998
Amman Baccalaureate School - Amman, Jordan International General Certificate of Secondary Education
Work Experience May 2006 - present Near East Media- Amman, Jordan Art Director - Full time job •P reparing work flow, following up on creative ideas, designing Skin magazine from cover to cover and other projects on the side, building files from start to press-ready final art, meeting the deadline at the end of each month. • Setting the template for the magazine. • Working with the editor to analyze content of the magazine, and brainstorming creative concepts for each new issue. • Supervising the production manager for color correcting the images in the magazine. • Responsible for the overall look of the product. • Creating advertising and graphic design materials for the magazine and out-sourced projects. • Being on location for fashion shoots and photo-essays. • Make-up artist and fashion stylist on some fashion shoots. • Overlooking layouts done by designers for Torque and Nox magzazines.
Freelance jobs - Amman, Jordan Art Director • May 2008 - Jordan Industrial Estates Corporation Designed layouts for slides to be animated for presentation purposes to promote investment in Jordan. • February 2008 - International Neuroscience Institute of Jordan (INI) Created a logo for the first Neuroscience hospital in Jordan. • August 2007 - Play FM 99.6 Designed a new concept for - Part(A) an event management section for the radio station Play 99.6. • June 2007 - Oasis Security Solutions Creating brand identity for a new security company. • May 2007 - Symbiosis and Void studios W orked with the architect Khalid Nahas to create a brand identity for a new real estate company, creating the logo, brochure, stationary and a DVD for their new development. • April 2006 - Modern Fashion Design Fashion graphic designer. Designing uniforms suitable for employees in various restaurants and hotels. • November 2006 - British Council Concept and design of CV building website for British Council in collaboration with Play FM - play.jo/goodplay • December 2005 - Team Young & Rubicam - Amman, Jordan Interned as a graphic designer to understand the system in an established, international advertising agency. Freelance jobs - Toronto, Ontario Graphic designer 2005 • Padulo Integrated Inc. Interned to create conceptual advertising. • Aim Media Group, Ingen Advertising Designed business cards, flyers, folders, letterheads and logos. • Downtown Partners DDB Interned to work on the Budlight account. • Xq(use)me Clothing Inc. Designed digital prints for T-shirts and blazers for Xq(use)me fashion line. • The Design Exchange Volunteered in the Digifest, Canada’s annual interdisciplinary festival of the best in innovative new media, art and design from Canada and abroad, to mingle with international designers and inventors.