Tarek atrissi biography of barack

Atrissi is an Associate Professor of Practice at the American University of Beirut..

Founder of Tarek Atrissi Design, award winning design studio with offices in Barcelona & Holland.

  • The design classes I am teaching at the American University of Beirut continued—despite everything—until the beginning of this week.
  • Atrissi is an Associate Professor of Practice at the American University of Beirut.
  • Across his vast, globe-encompassing portfolio of work stretching back decades, Tarek Atrissi has always strived to marry the deep history behind.
  • I have been invited to serve as the Jury President for the ADC Annual Awards, a top-tier competition by The One Club for Creativity in New York.

    • Arabic Lettering: the meeting point of graphic and typographic design

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares: Your educational background is quite varied, from an undergraduate degree in graphic design (AUB, Beirut) to two postgraduate degrees in new media and typography (HKU, Utrecht, and SVA, New York, respectively).

    When did you start getting interested in Arabic typography and lettering in particular?

    Tarek Atrissi: My education has been quite rounded and has set the course for my design practice. At the American University of Beirut, the focus was on print and graphic design, at the Utrecht School of the Arts the focus was on interactive new media, and at the School of Visual Arts the focus was on design entrepreneurship.

    I think the program at the American university of Beirut was the basis of my interest in Arabic typography and type design. The typographic focus of the design courses pushed me to understand the unique value of my surrounding visual culture and to incorporate that in