Haifa Nouayhed, Art Director / Creative manager

Haifa Nouayhed

Art Director / Creative manager

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Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, B.A., Graphic Design
Experience
21 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 3 Months

Art Director / Creative manager at curves
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2008

Considered as an outsource, worked with different projects, responsible of creative, production and new concepts.
• Negotiated photographer’s and customers to ensure deliverables and deadlines.
• Improved quality of graphics to address customer issues and requests.
• Designed guidelines for magazine, reducing the time of its productions.
• Designed logos, business cards, brochures, leaflets ...
• Created new concepts for TV adds ...

Sales coordinator / Customer care officer at International Training Institute
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2006 to November 2006

Introduced successful customer care techniques focused on, customer service, support and satisfaction.

Graphic Designer at i-mate for carrier devices
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2005 to April 2006

Designing illustrations for the web team, and responsible for the new themes, interfaces, and designs in general.
• Designed themes, screen shots, interface, for different devices (Smart Phones, Pocket PC’s).
• Design icons for the website and helped the marketing team in many projects, including packaging and speck -sheets.

Graphic Designer / assistant manager at Future Printing and Trading
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2004 to March 2005

Succeeded as a graphic designer and artist; worked as an assistant manager responsible for printing and plotting on all kinds of media and designs.
• Designed certificates for the Lebanon Web Awards ceremony, 2004 and was responsible for printing and organizing artworks.
• Designed certificates, invitation cards, and booklet cover - layout, for the Pan Arab web design ceremony that took place in Dubai in March 2005.

Graphic Designer/ Art director at Hi-Gulf for trading and services
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2004 to March 2005

Designed the corporate identity of the company, Hi-Gulf books of 2004 and 2005, and brochures.

• Team leader for 3 graphic designers, photographer, and sales persons.
• Had the chance to work with the customers of the company, designing for them personal posters and ads.

Graphic Designer / free lance at Zay El Assal Restaurant
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2004 to August 2004

Designed the delivery menu, and the advertisements fax sheet.
• Responsible for the follow up of the main menu in the printing press.

Graphic Designer / free lance at Fresh Delivery Magazine
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2003 to December 2003

Assisted in designing the cover of the magazine, and the layout of the menus and ads.

Assistant Chairman at Graphic Design Department in the American University of Science and Technology
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2001 to March 2003

Helped in building slides / negatives of art photos library.

• Had the chance to help fresh students in the art and computer software classes.

Assistant Instructor at Graphic Design Department in the American University of Science and Technology
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2001 to September 2002

Photography lab - for two semesters Beirut / Lebanon

• Worked and taught students in the photography lab, developing and printing B/W pictures.

Education

Bachelor's degree, B.A., Graphic Design
  • at American University College of Science and Technology
  • March 2003

Graduated with Honors Some of the courses • History for arts, Psychology, Layout design, Typography, Packaging design, Sculpture design, Photography.

Specialties & Skills

Graphic Creation
Microsoft office. (Word, Excel, Power point.)
Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Quark Express.
• Internet.

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate