Hesham Ga, Graphic Designer

Hesham Ga

Graphic Designer

Al Yaum Media House

Location
Saudi Arabia - Dammam
Education
Bachelor's degree, Graphic Design
Experience
26 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 10 Months

Graphic Designer at Al Yaum Media House
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since February 2005
Senior Graphic & web Designer at Headline Printing & Design
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 1999 to January 2005

1-Consult with the account executives & clients to establish the nature and content of designs and illustrations for reproduction.

2-Prepare sketches, photographs and illustrations to conceptualize and produce designs.

3-Layout, Art direction and design for brochures, catalogues, magazines, posters.

4-Perform Art direction, design, and execution of web sites.

5- co-ordinate with the print house, advertising agencies, photography studios, and other graphic designers to ensure high quality output and meeting our creative and design standards need.

Graphic Designer at Alwazzan Group
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 1998 to October 1999

1) Layout & Design of Catalogues, Brochures, posters, billboards, advertisements and packaging.

2) Work compatibly with the marketing and brand managers to ensure designs that work successfully with the marketing campaign’s objectives.

3- Attend photography shooting for the company products and co-ordinate with printers and other service bureau, to ensure fulfillment of our design and standards need.

Graphic Designer at Peak Image Ltd & Digital Press Magazine
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 1997 to August 1998

1) Participate in the layout, design, illustrations & cartoons for Digital press magazine ( The Leading Graphic Communication Periodical at the time).

2) Design book covers, brochures and posters.

3) Assisting in the creation of company identifications and logos.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Graphic Design
  • at Helwan Univ.
  • June 1997

Courses attended: 1- Info Graphics Workshops ( 2 workshops "each 4 days" with NEWSLAB Media house in Europe “Formerly Futureroom) on Info graphics production, creation and process. NewsLab, http://www.newslab.cz. (A Multimedia Publishing, mass communication center that provides expert advice and training in Europe and worldwide). 2- Creative Thinking and Innovation (Six days course on methods for creative thinking and its implementation in daily work duties) At Dar Alyaum for training and development center. 3- Microsoft outlook for managers and supervisors, (2 weeks course on the use of Microsoft outlook within intranet and Internet for effective communication and faster workflow between employees and managers at the company offices (Alyaum). At Alyaum media house for training and development center. 4- The Seven habits of the most effective people By Mr. Mohamed Al Awar (3 days lectures at Meshwar community Organization) Cairo. 5- Web Development Basics using Html & Java script at (HeadlinePd, Cairo, Egypt) 2002.

Specialties & Skills

Visual Communication
Graphic Design
Adobe Creative Suite
Drawing
Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Cinema 4D
Adobe Dreamweaver
Illustration
Hand sketching

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

Syndicate Of Plastic Arts Egypt (UNESCO).
  • Active member
  • January 2001
(NAPP) National Association of Photoshop professionals.
  • Sub
  • January 2003

Training and Certifications

Workshops on Info-graphics production and design (Training)
Training Institute:
http://www.newslab.cz
Date Attended:
August 2010
Professional Color Correction (swiss center for competence for media and printing technology) (Training)
Training Institute:
Al Yaum Trainning Center (Ugra.ch) certified
Date Attended:
June 2012
Workshops on Info-graphics production and design (Training)
Training Institute:
http://www.newslab.cz
Date Attended:
July 2010