Biography
Combining the international legacy of modernists with his cultural heritage and background, Tameem's work is strongly focused on enriching Arabic design with a refreshed, systematized and pragmatic personal imprint. At a branding level, he has participated in the development of various brands in the region and His work received several awards including the Certificate of Excellence in Logo Type Design TDC 2024, NY, USA. Certificate of Typographic Excellence, CA Communication Arts Italy. A’Design Award of Branding.
Alaa Tameem is a designer and art director based in Jeddah and Amman. With a BA in Graphic Design from Yarmouk University, and three minors —one in Latin Typographic Printing, Näfels, Switzerland. and a second Arabic Type Design from (ATDB) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and a third in way-finding and signage design from the University of Arts London (UAL). Currently, he is the design director at Milk Network for ten years now and the founder of Zero Initiative project since 2017.
At a more experimental level, he has founded Zero Posters, a poster-design initiative that aims to explore new techniques and styles of Arabic typography, as well as to update and expand Arabic design in the global internet milieu. In addition to being passionate about learning, Alan is equally committed to helping others to learn. This is why, he is as well interested in education as a way of spreading design and creative knowledge in the Arab world. Since 2019, he has been giving design courses at the Foundation of Branding and Typography at Dar Al hikmah University and, additionally, he has as well imparted poster design master classes at the Misk Foundation. Combining the local and the global, the traditional with the international, the theoretic and the practical, Alas’s work is born at the intersection of both axes under one premise: timelessness.
Workshops and Courses
Micro-Residency, Screen Printing Posters
Misk Art Institute
Riyadh, 2024
Corporate Identity Design
Dar Al Hikma University
Jeddah, 2020—2024
Arabic Poster Design Master Class. V.3
Misk Art Institute
Riyadh, 2022
Arabic Poster Design Master Class. V.2
Misk Foundation
Riyadh, 2021
Arabic Poster Design Master Class. V.1
Misk Art Institute
Riyadh, 2021
Editorial Design Foundation
Dar Al Hikma University
Jeddah, 2020—2024
Introduction to Graphic Design
Dar Al Hikma University
Jeddah, 2019—2022
Awards
Certificate of Excellence in Logo Type Design for Cultural Talents Tournament TDC 2024, NY, USA.
Certificate of Excellence in Poster Design for Cultural Talents Tournament TDC 2024, NY, USA.
Award of Excellence in Poster Design for 'Love Poster' Comms Art, 2021, California, USA.
Iron A’ Design Award in
Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design for Levels Identity, 2016, Italy.
Talks
Craft your future through the stories your portfolio tells.
Misk Art Institute + Hayy Jameel, 2024, Jeddah.
Arabic Posters Design Process
Dar Al Hikma University
2023, Jeddah.
Poster Design Beyond the Canvas.
American University in Dubai
2022, Dubai.
Exhibitions
TDC exhibitions United States, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and Vietnam, 2024.
100 Best Arabic Posters, Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Belgium, Riyadh, Palestine,
2016, 2018, 2020.
Amman Design Week
Zero Posters Vol.1
2017, Amman.
Publications
Global Type: Around the world via 100 foundries showcasing the power of the letterform
2023 — itsnicethat.com
Alaa Tameem and Tariq Yosef On Zero Posters + Their New Calligraphy Inspired Typeface 2021—type01.com
Experimental Poster Designs: Zero Posters Vol.1
2019—abduzeedo.com
Experimental Poster Designs: Zero Posters Vol.2
2021—abduzeedo.com
New 3d Effects in Graphic Design: 2D Solutions for Achieving the Best Pop Up Results, Flamant Publishers
2019
Logoism, Contemporary Logo Design, Sandu Publishers
2017
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