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College / Department

College of Architecture, Art and Design

Department of Art and Design

Teaching areas

Visual Communication

Research areas

Design Education, Arabic Typography, Archiving, Curation and Exhibition Design, Critical and Cultural Heritage Knowledge Production

Education

MA, Iconic Research, Basel School of Design, Switzerland, 2013

MFA, Graphic Design, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States, 2013

BS, Multimedia Design, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2009

Professional experience

Associate Professor, Art And Design, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2017 - Present

Partner And Designer, Mobius Desgin Studio, United Arab Emirates, 2010 - Present

Memberships

Member, Graphis, United Stated of America, 1 April 2017

Educator, AIGA, New York City, USA, January 2017

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2840

Ms. Riem Ibrahim

Associate Professor

MFA, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States

Ibrahim is Associate Professor of Visual Communication at the American University of Sharjah and co-founder of Sharjah-based Mobius Studio. Ibrahim’s overarching scholarly work is concerned with actively engaging with the marginalized, non-Western graphic design canon, tackling research modes that grapple with acts of preservation, with a special focus on Arabic typography. This encompasses facilitating exchange and disseminating knowledge that propel a critical analysis of Arab histories that shaped the field of graphic design in SWANA.

Publications

Riem Ibrahim. Beyond The Archive Rush: Problematizing Emerging Social Media Visual Collections, Architecture Media Politics Society (amps), 9 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024

Riem Ibrahim And Hala Rabeea. Forecasting Futures:Navigating a Dormant Design Pedagogy, Bayn Journal

Riem Ibrahim. A New Proposal for Art & Design: Unravelling Categories in the UAE, February 2018

Conference Presentations

Infiltrating the Institution, Agi Open, 4 October 2024

Infiltrating the Institution, Linking Cultures, 2 March 2023

Error 404, 100/100, March 2022

Looming Qatar, Tasmeem Design Conference, March 2022

Trial and Error, 100/100, March 2022

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, W451 for The Looming Council, Warehouse 421, 1 August 2022 - 1 August 2027

Grant, Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2024 - 31 May 2026

Grant, Expo Mural: Lettering Large, U.S. Mission in Dubai, March 2021 - 30 October 2022

Grant, The Looming Council, Pro Helvetia Cairo, - 30 March 2021

Awards and Honors

Best in Show, Communication Arts, Lettering Large: A Bilingual Lenticular Mural chosen on the basis of creative excellence and quality of execution as Best in Show for 2022, 2022

Certificate of Typographic Excellence, Type Director's Club, NY, Lettering Large: A Bilingual Lenticular Mural selected among best international typographic work for the year 2022., July 2022

Award of Teaching Excellence, American University of Sharjah, Student voted award for teaching excellence., June 2018

Certificate of Typpgraphic Excellence, Type Directors Club, Kinetic Typography Project selected among best international typographic work for the year 2017., July 2017