TAREK ATRISSI- SPEAKER IN THE FIRST MIDDLE EAST NEWS DESIGN CONFERENCE (BEIRUT) IS IN THE ARTS&LIFE MAGAZINE COVER (The National-Abu Dhabi)

[Douglas Okasaki]

Tarek Atrissi

• The Lebanese/Dutch designer Tarek Atrissi's work has been featured in New York's Guggenheim Museum and in the permanent design collection of the Affiche Museum in Holland. After studying in Lebanon, Dubai and the US, Atrissi settled in Holland in 2004 to launch Tarek Atrissi Design. His clients include Estée Lauder New York, the Mathaf Museum of Modern Arts in Qatar and Saudi Arabia's STC telecommunication.

"Being in Holland helps me take the critical distance from the Arab world, where most of my projects and research relate to, and I could look and understand the large geographic area of our Arab world with an objective eye," says Atrissi. "The philosophy of my design studio has been celebrating the beauty of Arabic culture and visualising it in the most creative and exciting ways."

His current projects include designing for the V&A Museum in London - specifically 2D exhibition graphics for their forthcoming contemporary photography show about the Middle East - and a design book with the Lebanese designer Nadine Chahine.

www.atrissi.com