Galia Dirany, Creative Artist

Galia Dirany

Creative Artist

Freelance Customers

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Diploma, Fashion Illustration
Experience
18 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months

Creative Artist at Freelance Customers
  • Lebanon
  • My current job since October 2008

Develop graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and Internet websites.
Prepare illustrations or rough sketches of material, discussing them with clients and making necessary changes.
Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.
Draw and print charts, graphs, illustrations, and other artwork
Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.

Corporate Marketing Manager at Hamad International Airport
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since September 2014
Art Director at Elegante Magazine
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2009

Responsible of Elegante Magazine, calibrating photos, designing the articles and finalizing the magazine

Creative & Marketing Director at Edouardo Daher & Company
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2011 to May 2014

During my stay in these past few years I was leading projects between Lebanon, Italy & France. I had the pleasure to initiate from interior designing to marketing execution projects such as an art gallery, a restaurant, an interior decoration company through customized ads, tv interviews, opening event and supervising everyones and assuring the quality system standard is as client's expectation.
Additionally I was also responsible of advertisement whether above the line or below the line in terms of identity creation, catalog design, 3d perspectives, drawing paintings, website design & development).
My previous experience gave me new life scopes and new visions.

Art Director at Artistic Magazine
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2010 to September 2011

Responsible of Artistic Magazine, review final layouts and sendig to the printing.

Senior Graphic Designer at In2uitions
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2010 to October 2010

Giving a print training for fresh graduated students and responsible for the web and print design in the company

Art Director at CK for Advertising
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2009 to February 2010

Responsible on everything concerning graphic design, even creating concept, identities, designing outdoors ...

Head of Creative Department at Vogue Publishing
  • Lebanon
  • September 2007 to June 2009

Responsible of Friends Magazine, Career Magazine & Real R Us Newspaper. Have a direct contact with the editor department & review final layouts and suggest improvements as needed.

Computer Service at Maliks Bookshop
  • Lebanon
  • September 2005 to September 2007

Everything in computer service: designing posters, fliers, cards, .....

Education

Diploma, Fashion Illustration
  • at Virginia Commonwealth University
  • April 2015
Diploma, Certificate, Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies
  • at University of Maryland College Park
  • March 2014
Diploma, Certificate, Creativity, Innovation and Change (CIC)
  • at University of Pennsylvania
  • April 2013
Diploma, Advanced Flash with Actionscript
  • at Formatech
  • February 2011
Diploma, Adobe Photoshop
  • at Formatech
  • October 2010
Diploma, Advanced Adobe InDesign
  • at Formatech
  • June 2010
Diploma, Advanced Adobe Illustrator
  • at Formatech
  • February 2010
Bachelor's degree, BA in Information Technology (IT)
  • at University de Saint Esprit de Kaslik
  • June 2009
High school or equivalent, Lebanese Bac in General Science (SG)
  • at Notre Dame Sahel Alma
  • June 2005

Specialties & Skills

General Science
InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Science
ActionScript
Adobe Illustrator
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Visual Basic C++
Oracle 10G Developer and Administrator
CorelDraw
Microsoft PowerPoint
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Microsoft Access
Unix (Linux)
Quark Express
 Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
AutoCAD 2D

Languages

Arabic
Expert
French
Expert
English
Expert
Italian
Beginner