Tarek Atrissi

Lebanese-Dutch Tarek Atrissi (he/him) established in 2000 his design studio, Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com), with offices in Barcelona and The Netherlands. The studio’s cross cultural design approach has gained an international reputation and produced projects that left a significant influence on the contemporary graphic design landscape in the Middle East. His awards includes TDC New York, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and the Design for Asia Award, among others. Tarek Atrissi holds a BA in Graphic Design with distinction from the American University of Beirut; a Masters of Arts in Interactive Multimedia from the Utrecht School of the Arts in Holland; and an MFA in Design entrepreneurship from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He holds a postgraduate degree in Typeface Design from the type@cooper program of the Cooper Union. Atrissi founded www.ArabicTypography.com – an Arabic Type Foundry specializing in multilingual typeface design. He has been on the judging panel of many international design competitions, including the Tehran Typeface Design competition in Iran, The Taiwan International Student Design Competition, The TDC competition in New York, and 100/100 Poster design competition in Egypt. He is board member at Creative Industries Fund NL in the Netherlands: the Dutch cultural fund for architecture, design and digital culture.