Scenes from Beirut - May 2011

After a long fascination with Lebanon I visited in May 2011 and was keen to disprove the misconception that its capital, Beirut, is a dangerous and ugly place. Here are the photos I took there.

Online Arabic reading course - October 2010

I had been learning to read in Arabic for about five years without ever fully mastering it. I was in need of a tool like this to help me practise. I couldn't find anything available so I created one myself.

1990s Fashion - January 2010

After coming accross some old fashion magazines from the Nineties, I used the photos and my own memories to write a full run-down on Nineties fashion.

Apple Store - Polari - November 2008

After many laborious hours spent localising Apple Stores into nine different languages, I decided to make a version in my favourite sub-cultural slang language - polari.

What Facebook doesn't tell you - October 2007

A visual take on what people really use Facebook for. Look closely!

In the name of the Charver - December 2002

A university research project into dialect words for 'scallies' (or 'chavs'). The first ever piece of research into the chav, a few years before the media's fascination with the topic.