Born in Beirut, Tarek Atrissi holds an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York and runs his Netherlands based multi-disciplinary design studio (www.atrissi.com) focused on creating a modern Arabic graphic & typographic design language, Atrissi is one of the most recognized designers in the Arab world; he has
received several prestigious design awards and is a regular speaker at international design events. He is the co-author of “Visual Narratives from Arabia” published by Unesco in 2008 and he teaches at the Utrecht School of the Arts in Holland.