Rana Salam
ranasalamdesign, London.
Graphic Designer/Art Director
Rana Salam is a graduate from both Central St. Martins College of Art and in 1992 from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Graphics and Art Direction. She has been running her own London-based design practice (www.ranasalam.com) for over 10 years.
The studio specializes in Middle Eastern Popular Art and Street Culture, drawing on colorful imagery and using the latest design technology to create a unique vision of graphic design and at direction that has been commissioned by Paul Smith, Liberty’s, Harvey Nichols and Fakhreldine, among others. She has been exhibited in Lebanon, Dubai and the UK by the Arts Council and inIVA.
She also lectures and does workshops on visual communication and art direction for the British Council as part of Creative Lebanon, the British Museum’s Offscreen project, and the International Design Forum in Dubai in May 2007.
Rana’s clients vary from the likes of the V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum), Mint, Villa Moda Dubai and Natacha Atlas, successfully extending their brand range to new products and environments. Recent projects include corporate graphics and exhibition catalogue for the 7th International Sharjah Biennial and a billboard and magazine advertising campaign, with the Egyptian artist and photographer Youssef Nabil, for the Villa Moda department store in Dubai. She is also the Art Director of BOUTIQUE1, Villa Moda, now Boutique 1, Dubai’s in store magazine.
In January 2003, Rana’s work was celebrated with a retrospective solo exhibition in Dubai, titled ‘Mishmaoul’ held at the Royal Mirage Hotel.