Inside ISIS’s Graphic Design Team
Jason Koebler, writing for 404 Media:
According to the filing, which was first reported by our
friends at Court Watch, Said was an aspiring ISIS
graphic designer who was working with ISIS’s second-in-command
graphic designer. That person told Said that ISIS’s chief
designer gave him the nickname The Nightmare because of the
extensive notes and revisions that were required before any
piece of propaganda he worked on was pushed out. The DOJ
document suggested that The Nightmare himself had many revisions
for Said’s graphic design work.
“You can call me the Dawlawi [ISIS] designer or you can call me
as the brother used to before. He used to send his designs for me
to modify and because of the many changes, he used to be scared of
me so he would call me ‘the nightmare,’” a message from The
Nightmare to Said published by the DOJ said. […]
The FBI obtained what it says are notes on one propaganda image
allegedly created by Said and which The Nightmare tore apart
because it had so many design elements that it was not very
legible or effective as a piece of propaganda, and suggested that
Said should both simplify it and add blood effects to parts of it
to better get the point across.
If the Trump 2.0 administration goes full fascist, I think I’ve found my role in the resistance.
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Jason Koebler, writing for 404 Media:
According to the filing, which was first reported by our
friends at Court Watch, Said was an aspiring ISIS
graphic designer who was working with ISIS’s second-in-command
graphic designer. That person told Said that ISIS’s chief
designer gave him the nickname The Nightmare because of the
extensive notes and revisions that were required before any
piece of propaganda he worked on was pushed out. The DOJ
document suggested that The Nightmare himself had many revisions
for Said’s graphic design work.
“You can call me the Dawlawi [ISIS] designer or you can call me
as the brother used to before. He used to send his designs for me
to modify and because of the many changes, he used to be scared of
me so he would call me ‘the nightmare,’” a message from The
Nightmare to Said published by the DOJ said. […]
The FBI obtained what it says are notes on one propaganda image
allegedly created by Said and which The Nightmare tore apart
because it had so many design elements that it was not very
legible or effective as a piece of propaganda, and suggested that
Said should both simplify it and add blood effects to parts of it
to better get the point across.
If the Trump 2.0 administration goes full fascist, I think I’ve found my role in the resistance.