Young graphic designers will be encouraged to discover different practices and methodologies, when faced with the challenge of designing a poster in a short period of time.

16 - 17 November | 10am – 4.30pm
Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba 1

Participants will work in groups to design a Welformat-sized poster to encourage collaboration and experimentation. Young graphic designers will be encouraged to discover different practices and methodologies, when faced with the challenge of designing a poster in a short period of time.

This workshop is part of Weltformat DXB.

About Weltformat & Tashkeel

This internationally recognised festival introduces design enthusiasts to different poster trends in Switzerland and promotes the poster medium in all its facets.

Weltformat DXB is a collaboration between Tashkeel, Welformat (a collective of graphic designers from Lucerne), Cairo-based designer Engy Aly and Mobius Design Studio’s Design House, with the support of Pro-Helvetia. It will be supported by four poster design workshops, three public talks and a publication.

In parallel, there will be an exhibition of posters created in response to the theme of Delusions and Errors by a diverse group of designers from the MENA region. It attempts to explore notions of embracing seemingly imperfect processes, malfunctions, or the unpredictability of different methodologies of working.

Mayar El Hayawan

Mayar El Hayawan is an Egyptian designer working and living in Basel, Switzerland.

El Hayawan recently graduated from the Basel school of Art and Design with a bachelor of Arts in the field of visual communication. During her studies she focused on New Media and generative design. Ms. El Hayawan is also interested in design research and photography.

Ms. El Hayawan would characterise her process for design as somewhat chaotic. She tends to mix a lot of mediums and experiment with analogue and digital techniques to create new aesthetics. Ms. El Hayawan's work is concept heavy but she tends to try to play with a small interactive or irritating element. Her motto of design can be summed up in a short quote by Helmut Schmid “design is an attitude”

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