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Yasmine Ghoniem

Visit the website of YSG, the Sydney studio stamped with the initials of its principal Yasmine Saleh Ghoniem, and a lush oasis opens up in the desert of internet design. No spartan typeface attaching to image scrolls in a void of white, but a rock-and-roll assault on graphic convention and the flashing claim in bold caps declaring “The magnetism is in the mix.”

It is spicy, trippy and flagrantly flips the bird to any prescripts on the use of pattern and proportion in both the production of its content and the constructed interiors it frames, and, it sucks

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