Tarek Atrissi
Tarek Atrissi is one of most recognized designers across the Arab world. He has gained an international reputation for his graphic work and has received prestigious awards and honors through his design career. He established in 2000 his Netherlands-based design studio, Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com). The studio’s typographic and cross cultural design approach produced projects that left a significant influence on the contemporary graphic design landscape in the Middle East. Atrissi was listed in 2017 as one of the most influential 100 Lebanese professional figures around the globe.
Hey Porter
Somewhat of an enigma but whoever they are, they do amazing work.
Graphic-Designer / indie digital type foundry based in Amman, Jordan. focused on designing and developing contemporary fonts, marks, logos and identities. started in 2017 as a daily poster design routine.
https://www.heyporterposter.com/
Hamed Hakimi
Hamed Hakimi is a graphic designer, art director and a member of Graphic Designer’s Association. He is graduated from Fine Arts’ Collage in graphic designing and BA of Graphics from Islamic Azad University. He began his artistic career with calligraphy training in Iran’s Calligraphers’ Association and Fine Arts’ Collage with the guidance of best art teachers. Who have mastered his craft.
Farhad Foroni
I am not a graphic designer, I am a poet!
It was not long before the lights of Iranian typography came on when the fifth generation of Iranian graphic designers took a professional path. This new trend, which breathed life into the dry lands like a fresh river, encouraged many young and tasteful designers of this generation to strive to discover the unknown dimensions of the Persian alphabet and to modernize it, and to be determined. “Farhad Foroni” is a designer who sees images as poetry and poems as images. He does not act logically to express his words! He does not think! But the language of emotion, and ultimately its works, creates thought. A thought that perhaps reveals the unconditional freedom of the artist’s mind and the creative scope of the graphic world. Roozrang’s exclusive interview with Farhad Fazuni can express his view on this movement.
One of my all time favorites.
Reza Abedini
Practicing in his homeland of Iran, Reza Abedini is an accomplished graphic designer who continually blurs the lines between art and design. He combines simple illustrations with poetic typography and elegant layouts, exploring the beauty of the Persian language. As well as being a member of the AGI, Abedini has won many awards as well as judged and been apart of many panel discussions.
Lalla Essaydi
Lalla A. Essaydi grew up in Morocco and now lives in USA where she received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/TUFTS University in May 2003. Essaydi’s work is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston and Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in many major international locales, including Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Texas, Buffalo, Colorado, New York, Syria, Ireland, England, France, the Netherlands, Sharjah, U.A.E., and Japan and is represented in a number of collections, including the Williams College Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Fries Museum, the Netherlands, and The Kodak Museum of Art. Her art, which often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body, addresses the complex reality of Arab female identity from the unique perspective of personal experience. In much of her work, she returns to her Moroccan girlhood, looking back on it as an adult woman caught somewhere between past and present, and as an artist, exploring the language in which to “speak” from this uncertain space. Her paintings often appropriate Orientalist imagery from the Western painting tradition, thereby inviting viewers to reconsider the Orientalist mythology. She has worked in numerous media, including painting, video, film, installation, and analog photography.
http://www.lallaessaydi.com/1.html
