My passion for graphic design, technology, and education has strongly influenced my professional work and career goals. Growing up in Egypt has helped me to appreciate the value of art as means to better understand and engage with lost cultures that we can no longer directly experience. Surviving works of art helped me decipher and appreciate the past. However, preserved static artworks are not enough to render a detailed understanding of the past. This realization helped me reflect on how I could creatively engage current and future audiences, using graphic design and technology as a vehicle to educate. In the modern world, digital art overcomes the limitations of static artworks by integrating audio and movement to communicate tremendous detail and emotion. Creating interactive graphics allow me to further engage with audiences, providing additional opportunities to build new aesthetic and educational experiences.
As a graphic designer and educator, I use an interdisciplinary approach that blends design and digital media with educational experiences. Visual art can be compelling and help expand people’s perceptions by seeing the artist’s perspective. I integrate technology and interactivity into my art to share my perspective and engage with the audience’s experiences and perspectives, which opens additional avenues for educational engagement. We learn better by using multiple senses, such as sight, sound, and touch, which help connect ideas to memory and emotion. This allows for more cognitive connections to my work and ideas. As an ideal platform for interactivity, I want to explore the gamification of learning as I evolve as a graphic designer and educator to enable audiences to see the world through new lenses.
Art game application is one of my recent in-progress works. I aim in this project to create a unique interactive experience to learn, expose, and practice art and graphic design through attractive games designed well to achieve this goal. This project goes through a long process, from researching and sketching to prototyping and UI / UX designs. During this process, refining and enhancing the designs, the interaction, and the navigation system is crucial after many user experiences. The following steps will be creating and building the app to be ready for publication. Also, app promotion is a key for understanding competitors, increasing brand awareness, and getting feedback. Therefore, I am working on creating posters and motion graphic videos with the same identity and looking for the app to spread around social media and art colleges for marketing. From here, my future work will be expanding and experiencing more ideas that connect graphic design, technology, and education. I am targeting the unique artistic individuality of each person as they project their interests and personalities onto my interactive projects.
