AUK Design Students Share Experience on Regional Conference

Graphic Design students gave a presentation to the AUK community on April 7, sharing their experiences from the Mousharaka|Icograda Design Week in Doha, Qatar held this past February. 

With the theme Mousharaka, a term which in Arabic means "collaboration", the event aimed to bring together practitioners, scholars, and students across design disciplines, cultures and regions to build bridges and raise awareness of the importance and promise of collaboration, and create bonds necessary to achieve the full potential of design in the Gulf region.

The week-long event was composed of two parts, an education symposium and a professional conference, both of which provided ample opportunity for attendees to engage in discussions and activities that related to collaboration in the academic discipline of design. The Professional Conference featured four keynote speakers and eight prominent presenters who shared their perspectives on design and design collaborations. Additionally, the event launched Design Debate Doha, in which the design community addressed global design issues.

For Ranya Al-Mastaki, one of the five AUK students who attended the conference, the best part was having the opportunity to network with big names in design, like David Gibson, published pioneer in the field of public information design and Co-founder and Managing Principal of Two Twelve Associates, Inc in New York City. 

Al-Mastaki left the conference not only with a deeper understanding of the importance of collaboration in design but also aware of the years of experience necessary to maintain a personal touch in a collaborative design, which often proves to be a challenge for beginning design students. 

For more information on Graphic Design at AUK, please visit: http://www.auk.edu.kw/academics/deg_programs/graphic_design.jsp
For more information on the conference, including a schedule of the events, visit the website at: www.mousharaka.com
 

Graphic Design students gave a presentation to the AUK community