Mai Zoheir, Art and Design instructor

Mai Zoheir

Art and Design instructor

riss

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Graphic art
Experience
15 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months

Art and Design instructor at riss
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since April 2018
Senior Graphic designer at Graphic design, printmaking Freelance
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since August 2012
Artist at Art exhibitions
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2009

-Participated in many Art exhibitions in and out university :
-Gallery of Fine Arts and family annual exhibition no. 35 & 36 with arts activity management ( 2009 and 2010 )
-“ Popular Show “ Gallery with Townhouse gallery 2011
-“ Tahrir “ exhibition with Egypt Art-center ( 03/2011 )
-“ Masr Bokra “ exhibition with DR. ABD EL Aziz el Gendy in Ebdaa Art Gallery ( from 12~27-3-2011 ) and ( from 15-6- 2011 till 31-6-2011)
- “NAhr el bahr” with el sawy cultural wheel art exhibition 2013 and 2015
- “Painting for every house” in palace of arts, Cairo opera house 2015

Graphic Designer Team leader at Ceista consulting
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2016 to March 2017
Graphic Designer at Hindawi publishing corporation
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2011 to November 2016

Drawing/illustrating designs and editing bitmaps to create vector-art using Photoshop & Illustrator. illustrations could be scientific, mathematics or clip-art figures. with ext. SVG and EPS formats

Handling figures/Clipart in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Editing scale, stroke and colors.
Handling Authors’ photos (cropping and editing) in Photoshop.
Editing figures photos.
Drawing/ illustrate any bitmap photos to create vector-art or any illustrations needed
Adding labels through Latex
Creating a .Tex file for each figure and using class files appropriate for each journal.
Adding labels on each figure.
Producing the final layout for each figure.
Testing the final layout for all figures and photos of the paper.
Revising the final layout of the figures comparing with the original materials and applying in-house style.
Editing design if there is a need.
Revising quality assurance of graphic.
Verifying corrections.
Adding corrections required from the copy editing team and form the Authors in the galley proof stage.

Art teacher volunteer at “One shot” non-profit organization and Elsawy cultural wheel
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2012 to December 2013

- Art teacher volunteer for children and adults in “One shot” non-profit organization and Elsawy cultural wheel (2012& 2013).

Graphic Designer at “ Bokra “ For Media Productions, Media Studies and Human Rights
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2010 to August 2011

Graphic designer for business cards and logos

Education

Master's degree, Graphic art
  • at Faculty of fine arts-graphic department
  • September 2017

MFA is a creative degree in fine arts, including visual arts, graphic art and design. printmaking

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic department (printed designs)
  • at Helwan University
  • May 2011

( Grade very good )

Specialties & Skills

Teaching
Graphic Design
Illustration, photography, colour theory, and corporate identity
Adobe Illustrator
ChemDraw
Microsoft office
Javascript and Wordpress
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Flash
Adobe InDesign
Dreamweaver
typography

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Graphic designing (Training)
Training Institute:
“El Kholoud” animation producing company
Date Attended:
August 2011
Duration:
160 hours

Hobbies

  • Drawing
    - The National Art-exhibition of Graphic, Fourth session (01-2016). - Ismailia first beinnale for micro art at Ismailia culture palace (12-2015). - “Cultural Creations” art exhibition associated with the first scientific conference of civilization& Islamic arts in Sharm el shiekh (10-2015). - “Painting for every house” art exhibition in palace of arts,Cairo opera house 2015.