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Faculty

Alessandro Karim Decaneva

Education Background

2023-2024 MA in Fine Arts, Universitat De Barcelona, Facultat De Belles Arts, Barcelona, Spain

2017- 2018 MA in Advanced Typography, Eina Centre Universitari De Desseny I Art De Barcelona. Spain

2012-2016 BA in Fine Arts in Graphic Design, American University Of Beirut, Lebanon

Previous Employment:

2021-2022 Assistant Professor, Marbella Design Academy, Spain

2019-2020 Teaching Assistant, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

2016-2021 Art Direction for:

1. Citrof | Barcelona, Spain - Manila, Philippines

2. Sustainable Design Week | Beirut, Lebanon

3. S.O.S. Save Our Seas | Trieste, Italy

4. Barakunan Publishing | Berlin, Germany - Beirut, Lebanon

5. PenguinCube | Beirut, Lebanon

6. di-Lab | Beirut, Lebanon

7. Faculty of Architecture and Design, A.U.B. | Beirut, Lebanon

8. Communica Design Beirut Office | Beirut, Lebanon

Research Interests:

Graphic Design, Typography, Type Design, Editorial Design, Text-based Art, Non-linear Text, Poetry, Calligraphy, Aesthetics

Research Results

Awards:

• Graphis Poster Annual, 2018

• Best Graphic Design Research Paper at A.U.B. FEA Conference, 2016

• Areen Award for Excellence in Graphic Design: Second Prize, 2016

• Middle East Airlines, Anniversary Design Contest, 2015

Exhibitions:

Entre Esqueixos, Centre d’Art la Capella, Barcelona, 2023

Publications:

1. The Mad and the Other, A Visual Exploration of Hypergraphia and Graphomania; Annual FEA Faculty Conference Journal, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut, May 2016.

2. Displaced into the Unknown: Textual Accounts of the Unbearable; Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona, June 2024.