Featured Designer

Malak — Motion Designer

Malak is a Motion Designer featured in the Art of Styleframe library of motion design and visual design talent. This profile aggregates selected works documented in the gallery alongside attribution links back to the artist's own portfolio for verified context.

The work gathered here runs to 10 documented pieces, pulled from a wider portfolio that takes in ARAB REALITY, WORLD WAR IN ARAB EYES, PALESTINE OBLIVION, ALJAZEERA 18th, each one linking back to Malak's own site for full credits. Look for Tavolsag, Redemption, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Canto Ostinato, among others in the gallery; we link out to the maker's own upload instead of copying the frames here.

The deeper archive sits at syntaxcgi.com, imdb.com; what we maintain is a pointer to it, not a copy of it. We'd rather pin Malak to real projects than to trend labels, and that preference has survived every redesign here.

Malak is a Motion Designer, featured in the Art of Styleframe library. The selections below link to the artist's own portfolio for verified work history and credits.

The studio

Malak works as M. Malak, and the portfolio lives inside Syntax CGI, the studio he founded in 2008. The studio site describes him as an art director and motion graphic designer who is, at the core of it, a cinematographer. That last word explains a lot about the frames. The stated focus is main title design, motion graphics and art direction, and the studio names Netflix, Hulu, Abu Dhabi TV, Al Jazeera Media Network, Imaginary Forces, Platige Image, MBC Studios, Flying Wild Hog, Koch Media and CD Projekt among the studios and networks it has worked with.

Inside the gallery

The gallery splits along the same lines the studio site uses. Syntax Originals are the self-initiated films, dated on the site: Tavolsag from 2017, Redemption and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick from 2019, then Canto Ostinato and Tabula Smaragdina from 2020.

Redemption is the one worth opening first. The studio's own synopsis describes a man of clay walking down the middle of a road, that road standing in for the path of his life, until something invisible hits him from the side and knocks him to the pavement. The blood in the piece isn't blood; the injury is meant to reveal the spirit under the skin. It's a strange, deliberate short, and it tells you more about the studio's instincts than any client reel would.

The second cluster, gathered under The Art of Foundation, is organized by discipline rather than by job: styleframe, cinematography, graphic user interface, branding and photography. Reading a portfolio that way is unusual. It puts the craft first and the client second, which is a stance rather than an accident.

Portfolio highlights

ARAB REALITY Styleframe for a program title ALJAZEERA MEDIA NETWORK.
WORLD WAR IN ARAB EYES The idea is simple, we took the plastic army miniatures that we used to play with when we were kids and transformed it into an epic title / promo on ALJAZEERA MEDIA NETWORK.The projects was completely
PALESTINE OBLIVION No words could describe the pain of oblivion of Palestinian since 66 years ago.
ALJAZEERA 18th - ALJAZEERA MEDIA NETWORK.
EVERYDAYS -01 - Coming soon. SyntaxCGI.
EVERYDAYS -02 - Coming soon. SyntaxCGI.

Where to see the work

Every tile above opens the matching section of the studio site. The full portfolio, the client list and the studio background are at syntaxcgi.com, and the film and television credits are on IMDb.