Tarek is young but his work and experience is very wide.
He studied in Lebanon, The Netherlands, Qatar, Dubai and the United States where he did his MFA, taught by influenced people like Steven Heller and Sagmeister. His work has been exhibited in museums like Guggenheim, NY and the Affiche Museum in The Netherlands. Awards are also part of his life and won several. He is the founder of arabictypography.com and he a guest to numerous seminars and is now teaching in Utrecht School of the Arts (The Netherlands). Tarek has his own studio where he develops graphic work for national and international, small or big companies. He became a Dutch citizen in 2007, being both Dutch and Lebanese.
One of my favourite projects developed by Tarek is the Rahala Boardgame. It is a bilingual trivia board-game where the players are invited to travel through the history of Arab Civilizations. To find the design was the first step. Most games are usually imported from overseas, loosing the ‘style’ of the Arab culture. Tarek wanted this one to be as ‘national’ as possible. The design integrated specs like information, packaging, graphics, 3D design, visual identity, illustration and usability. Designing the image was not easy, and the actual logo for the game came later.
The map combines six eras of the Arab civilizations so Tarek had to search for the visual identity of each one. The colour coding was also very important and each era was labelled by one colour. All the process was taken very carefully and step by step, as it is possible to see in his case study.
Explores is a very interesting project and is definitely worth to take a look at.
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