Graphic Designer Design

NAHID YAHYAEE

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Creative Graphic Designer & Multidisciplinary artist with seven years of experience. Skilled in designing Corporate Identity & Branding, Typography & Typeface Design, Posters, UX/UI, Projection Mapping, Videography, and Conceptual & Interactive Installations. SKILLS, TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES Skills

Branding & Advertising: Logo, Corporate Identity, Brand identity, Brand guidelines, website Designing for print: Poster, Zine, Bookmaking, Catalog, Packaging, Information graphics, Placemaking, … Type Design: Typeface, Type specimen, Typography & typesetting UX/UI: Prototyping, Application design, UI Design, UX Design Visual: Photography, Videography, Projection mapping, Creative coding Tools & Technologies

Design & Visuals: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, CapCut Coding: p5js, p5Live, Hydra, HTML, CSS

Printing: Riso, Silkscreen, Letterpress

WORK HISTORY Graphic Designer (Grad hourly), UIC College of Education, Chicago, USA 04/2024 – 05/2025

• Designing all the brochures, catalogs, posters, and bulletin boards related to the college. Senior Graphic Designer (remote job), Templates Cabin, Melbourne, Australia 03/2022 - 06/2023

• Template Design for businesses and companies.

Freelance Graphic Designer 07/2018 – 01/2022

• Corporate Identity Design for Maple property services. Toronto, Canada

• Logo and Album Cover Design for an Iranian American DJ – KIARASH. Texas, USA

• Corporate Identity Design for Anima Jewelry. IRAN

• Corporate Identity Design for Moneh advertising agency. IRAN

• Corporate Identity Design for Rahava (private) Music Institute. IRAN

• Corporate Identity Design for Toreini Construction. IRAN

• Poster and Brochure Design for Shahrzad Persian music band. IRAN Graphic Designer, AKTIS EPC contractor company, IRAN 05/2018 - 08/2018

• Corporate identity design and branding.

Graphic Designer, SabaCell digital publishing and advertising company, IRAN 04/2015 - 12/2016

• Designed the corporate Identity of the SabaCell brand, including business cards, official paper, and logo usage guidelines.

• Designed Information Graphic brochures & posters for SabaCell.

• Website Design for SabaCell.

• Trade Show Booth Design for the International Digital Marketing Brand Conference for SabaCell. EDUCATION Master of Design, Graphic Design, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA 05/2025 Board of Trustees Fellowship, Larson Scholarship, Teaching Assistantship at UIC School of Design. MA, Visual Communication (Graphics), Azad University of Tehran Central, IRAN 02/2018 The master’s Thesis was accepted and supported as a research project by IRAN’s Union of Publishers. BA, Visual Communication (Graphics), Azad University (Ray Branch), IRAN 02/2014 Honored as the top student in the Class of 2012.

Associate degree, Visual Communication (Graphics), Azad University (Ray Branch), IRAN 02/2011 Honored as the top student in the Class of 2008.

HONORS AND AWARDS Graphic Design USA selected 2025 students to watch. GDUSA Larson Scholarship for Academic Excellence, UIC School of Design, Fall 2024. Board of Trustees Fellowship, UIC School of Design, Fall 2023 & Spring 2024. EXHIBITIONS Design Museum of Chicago: “Letter beyond form,” Chicago Types explores typography, Chicago, USA. DMOC

Yasamin Gallery: “Curator of the HEECH Exhibition,” Tehran, Iran. Alzahra University: “Secrets behind the cover,” Tehran, Iran. CERTIFICATIONS Poster Design Workshop: " Academy of Art & Design Basel FHNW," by Leander Eisenmann, Basel, Switzerland.

Poster Design Workshop: " Claudia Basel," by Jiri Oplatek, Basel, Switzerland. Adobe Workshop: " Adobe Creative Retreat," by Adobe, Chicago, USA Design Workshop: "Creativity and Ideation in Advertisement," by Onish Aminelahi, Tehran, Iran. Adobe Advanced Workshop: "Photoshop & Illustrator," by Vijhe School of Design, Tehran, Iran. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teacher Assistant, UIC School of Design, Chicago, USA. Jan 2025-May 2025 Primary instructor for DES160: Design Photography at UIC School of Design PUBLICATION A Study on the Motifs of Stucco Carvings Aali Qapu Palace’s Music Room, published in Iranian Journal of Glory of Art. JJHJOR

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